I like them. Not the gumby headstock as posted though.
I had an opportunity to buy a reissue when I made a trade for my LP DC, but I couldn't afford it at the time.
It had the Flying V headstock.
I like them. Not the gumby headstock as posted though.
I had an opportunity to buy a reissue when I made a trade for my LP DC, but I couldn't afford it at the time.
It had the Flying V headstock.
A friend of mine had a pretty cool and accurate (well... as far as woods and trad Gibson build) Japanese copy in the ‘80s, I forget the maker (not an Ibanez). It had a normal Gibson headstock and was a very cool-sounding guitar once we put good pickups in. It got stolen and is sorely missed.
A friend of mine had a pretty cool and accurate (well... as far as woods and trad Gibson build) Japanese copy in the ‘80s, I forget the maker (should be an Ibanez). It had a normal Gibson headstock and was a very cool-sounding guitar once we put good pickups in. It got stolen and is sorely missed.
That video proves to me that then there’s humbucker, I somewhat ignore the guitar and hear the denomination of pickup. I’ve fallen out of love with the humbucker. The body shape is lame imo. No reason to be. Sans raison d’être.
I had two of them; an Epiphone and a Gibson, and sold both and broke even. Neither played very well and even after replacing the nut on the Gibson, it didn't stay in tune. I would consider another Moderne, but it would have to be a good one right out of the starting gate.
I wrote an extensive article for Premier Guitar years ago on the search for the original Moderne. Supposedly, Gibson made at least three to five prototypes and none have apparently survived. Former Gibson employees say they existed and were dumped in the "morgue" and finally cut up on a band saw. Others say they rescued the parts and built new Modernes. I finally came to the conclusion they existed, but no complete original examples exist today. If there was an original, it would have surfaced by now, as it would be worth a fortune.
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