Talk:Gibson Les Paul

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Les Paul didn't invent the Les Paul

In a 1992 interview (published only recently), Ted McCarty explained a few things.

We made a guitar out of solid rock maple. Wasn’t good. Too shrill, too much sustain. And we made one out of mahogany. Too soft. Didn’t quite have that thing. So we finally came up with a maple top and a mahogany back, made a sandwich out of it, glued ‘em together. …we carved the maple top, like we’d do on an L-5 and an L-7.

Tony Mottola was probably the number one guitarist in New York City at the time. I sent one to Tony for his opinion. He was strictly an acoustic man—he didn’t think too much of any electric guitar. It was attractive. … So I got an opinion from him and from several other people. … Well he didn’t particularly care for it. It was a solidbody and he was a hollowbody man. But he did say that it was an attractive guitar and it played well, and that was an end of it.

And knowing Les and Mary, I decided maybe I ought to show this guitar to them. … the only change... we had a regular trapeze tailpiece, and Les came up with the idea, instead of having the strings hooked into the tailpiece, he had a solid steel bar wrapped around. He liked that, so we changed to it—we made them that way.

We spent a year designing that guitar, and he never saw it until I took it to Pennsylvania.

These and other points ought be incorporated into Gibson Les Paul.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 06:28, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yoda Speak

Why are so many sentences written backwards? like "in xxxx to help tuning were grover tuners introduced". Paraphrasing, but there is crap like that throughout. The only being that talks like that is Yoda. Mhannigan (talk) 04:37, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Signature models largely primarily sourced

I'm not really sure a lot of these models meet the threshold of Notability, as they seem to be largely cited straight from Gibson or its subsidiaries (which is sort of edging its way into advertising as well). At very least, some better sources are needed, but I can also see a case being made for just removing models that are only cited by the company itself. -MJ (talk) 19:14, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to be fairly aggressive about removing unsourced material from the section. there's not a lot here that seems well cited. -MJ (talk) 01:16, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Standard

The Standard only applied to the 1960 year model. Prior to 1960, they were called “Regulars”. 216.193.142.70 (talk) 04:24, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keith Richard vs. Keith Richards. Link is wrong also

Not sure how to fix this, not a wikipedian. Keep up the great work, folks! 96.245.174.42 (talk) 13:19, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed - although he was often credited as "Keith Richard" early in his career. Thanks for pointing this out. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 13:53, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]