7/25/07

Gibson Firebird


The Gibson Firebird is a solid-body guitar marketed by Gibson from 1963 to the present.

Configurations

* Firebird I - 1 pickup. Combination stud bridge/tailpiece. Chrome hardware.
* Firebird II Artist CMT - 2 picksup, solid body without "wings." Featured toggle switches to control active Moog electronic tone controls.
* Firebird III - 2 pickups, Combination stud bridge/tailpiece and Gibson Vibrola. Chrome hardware.
o There was a sub-design of this version of the Firebird. It featured a flat headstock with standard tuning machines rather than the sculpted one and also utilized two soap-bar P-90 pickups rather than the mini-humbuckers
* Firebird V - 2 pickups, Tune-o-matic bridge. Chrome hardware.
* Firebird VII - 3 pickups, Tune-o-matic bridge and Maestro "Lyre" Vibrola tailpiece. Gold hardware.
* Firebird Studio - 2 humbuckers, Tune-o-matic bridge. Chrome or gold hardware.
* Firebird XII - 2 pickup, twelve string non-reversed version on the Firebird.
* Non-Reverse Firebird - could be any assortment of pickups but the most distinctive feature is the non-reversed headstock.

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