The system includes either a AF1 Fender® (Stratocaster) or AG1 Gibson®-style transmitter that plugs into your guitar or bass, along with the CR77 receiver. A few other Kessel-owned instruments are also listed in this auction, including a 1927 Bacon & Day Silver Bell banjo, a 1935 Martin T-17 Tipple, a 1963 Gibson A-50 Mandolin and a 1963 Gibson Baritone Ukulele.Samson's AirLine 77 AF1/AG1 Guitar system offers a true wireless experience with no beltpacks or cables, allowing total freedom of mobility. See Heritage Auctions to bid on this unique guitar. Online bidding starts on October 22nd, with the auction itself on November 10th 2018. But if a player can imbue magic into an instrument, then this thing is priceless. There's been headstock repair(s) no real surprise in a Gibson this old. Condition: Fair.ĭescribed as in 'fair' condition.
Included is the guitar stand that Barney used with this guitar. A very iconic guitar from one of the true legends of the instrument during the last gasp of pop jazz. Large metal jack plate and several visible side cracks at the lower bout of the guitar. The holes from the previous tuners have been filled. The neck is likely original but has been refretted and rebound. The Gibson logo and crest inlay are outlined from finish shrinkage. The headstock overlay has been painted solid black. no doubt related to an endorsement deal with someone other than Gibson.īarney Kessel's 1946/47 ES-350 credit Heritage auctionsīarney Kessel's Circa 1946 Gibson ES-350 Sunburst Archtop Electric Guitar Barney Kessel's personal ES-350 modified with a late 30's Charlie Christian pickup. Note also that the original pearl Gibson logo and crown motif have been painted over. The guitar is also modified by Kessel in several other ways: the floating rosewood bridge was specially made for the guitar, "following the principles of a fine violin bridge", whilst the 'pointer' control knobs had been harvested from an old record player, allowing Kessel to feel their position when unable to see them due to bright stage lighting. These were the pickups fitted to the pre-war Gibson ES-150, and ES-250 guitars used by Christian, who had been a huge influence on Kessel (and most jazz musicians of the period). Firstly, the P90 pickup was replaced with a 1939 Gibson Charlie Christian-style unit, "it has a very high quality of cobalt and copper which is unavailable in the world today". Kessel's guitar has undergone several adaptations, most performed many decades back when the artist was most active. wow, what a guitar! Charlie Christian pickup
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Add in the intangible vibration of lifetime of professional use by one of the greats, and.
But all vintage Gibson guitars are very special instruments indeed, especially their electric acoustics, and especially those produced up until the early 1960s. It was also the guitar of choice of contemporary Tal Farlow. All in all a very simple, but highly effective instrument. Early models (like Kessel's) had a single P90 pickup with just one volume and one tone control. It was all-maple, with a laminate maple top, five-piece maple neck, with 20 fret rosewood fretboard. The Gibson ES-350 was Gibson's first cutaway electric acoustic, derived from the non-cutaway ES-300, and launched in (supposedly) 1947, making this example one of the very first produced. And it is that Gibson ES-350 that is being offered for sale by Heritage Auctions on November 10th 2018.
Kessel in concert, and nine times out of ten he'll be pictured with his favourite 1946/47 ES-350. Barney Kessel is, of course, a jazz guitar legend, but his name is also associated with numerous signature or artist guitars, by Gibson, Kay, and Airline. It is not that often that a 1940s Gibson ES-350 comes up for sale, let alone such an iconic example.
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