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Gibson Explorer

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The Gibson Explorer is a type of electric guitar that made its debut in 1958. [1]

61 relations: Alembic Inc, Allen Collins, Aria (guitar company), Brendon Small, Chapman Guitars, Cort Guitars, Dean Guitars, Dean ML, Dean Z, Electric guitar, EMG, Inc., Epiphone, Eric Clapton, ESP EX, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Floyd Rose, Future, Gibson, Gibson Firebird, Gibson Flying V, Gibson Futura, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson Moderne, Gibson Robot Guitar, Gibson SG, Gibson Thunderbird, Gordon-Smith Guitars, Greco guitars, Grover Jackson, Hal Leonard Corporation, Hamer Guitars, Hard rock, Headstock, Heavy metal music, Humbucker, Ibanez, Ibanez Destroyer, Jackson Guitars, Jackson Kelly (guitar), John Entwistle, Kahler Tremolo System, Kramer Guitars, List of Peavey guitars, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mahogany, Mains hum, Matt Heafy, Matthias Jabs, Nitrocellulose, P-90, ..., Pickguard, PRS Guitars, Rick Nielsen, Terminalia superba, The Who, Trivium (band), Tune-o-matic, Vibrato systems for guitar, Vintage guitar, Vintage Guitar (magazine), Warwick (company). Expand index (11 more) »

Alembic Inc

Alembic is an American manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps.

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Allen Collins

Larkin Allen Collins Jr. (July 19, 1952 – January 23, 1990) was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and co-wrote many of the band's songs with late frontman Ronnie Van Zant.

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Aria (guitar company)

Aria is a Japanese manufacturer of acoustic and electric guitars and basses.

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Brendon Small

Brendon Small (born February 15, 1975) is an American writer, producer, voice actor, stand-up comedian, animator and musician best known as the co-creator of the animated series Home Movies (along with Loren Bouchard) and Metalocalypse (along with Tommy Blacha) and as the creator of the virtual death metal band Dethklok.

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Chapman Guitars

Chapman Guitars is a guitar company established in 2009 by Rob Chapman, a guitarist best known for his videos on YouTube.

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Cort Guitars

Cort Guitars (Cor-Tek) is a guitar manufacturer centered in South Korea.

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Dean Guitars

Dean Guitars, commonly referred to simply as Dean, is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and musical products.

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Dean ML

The Dean ML is an electric guitar made by Dean Guitars in 1977 along with its counterparts, the Dean V, Dean Cadillac and Dean Z. It has an unusual design, with a V-shaped headstock and V-shaped tailpiece.

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Dean Z

The Dean Z Guitar is an electric guitar made by Dean Guitars starting in 1977 along with its counterparts, the Dean ML, Dean V and Dean Cadillac.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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EMG, Inc.

EMG, Inc. is the current legal name of a company based in Santa Rosa, California that manufactures guitar pickups and EQ accessories.

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Epiphone

Epiphone is an American musical instrument manufacturer founded by Anastasios Stathopoulos, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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ESP EX

The ESP EX is a series of electric guitars produced by ESP produced in the United States, Europe and in Japan with the ESP logo as part of the ESP Original Series.

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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), commonly referred to simply as Fender, is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers.

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Floyd Rose

The Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo, or simply Floyd Rose, is a type of locking vibrato arm for a guitar.

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Future

The future is what will happen in the time after the present.

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Gibson

Gibson Brands, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corp.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and consumer and professional electronics from Kalamazoo, Michigan and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Gibson Firebird

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

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Gibson Flying V

The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model first released by Gibson in 1958.

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Gibson Futura

The Gibson Futura was an electric guitar that was the precursor of the model introduced as the Explorer.

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Gibson Les Paul

The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.

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Gibson Moderne

The Gibson Moderne is an electric guitar model first designed by Gibson in 1957.

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Gibson Robot Guitar

The Gibson Robot Guitar (a.k.a. GOR) is a limited-edition self-tuning Gibson guitar, typically a Les Paul.

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Gibson SG

The Gibson SG is a solid-body electric guitar model that was introduced in 1961 (as the Gibson Les Paul SG) by Gibson, and remains in production today with many variations on the initial design available.

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Gibson Thunderbird

The Gibson Thunderbird is an electric bass guitar made by Gibson and Epiphone.

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Gordon-Smith Guitars

Gordon-Smith Guitars is a manufacturer of hand-crafted electric guitars originally based in Partington near Manchester, England.

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Greco guitars

Greco (Japanese: グレコ Gureko) is a brand of electric guitars produced by Kanda Shokai 神田商会.

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Grover Jackson

Grover Jackson is a luthier.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

Hal Leonard Corporation is a United States music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Hamer Guitars

Hamer Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars founded in 1973, in Wilmette, Illinois, by vintage guitar shop owners Paul Hamer, Jol Dantzig James Walker and John Montgomery.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Headstock

A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instrument such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Humbucker

A humbucking pickup, humbucker, or double coil, is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils to "buck the hum" (or cancel out the interference) picked up by coil pickups caused by electromagnetic interference, particularly mains hum.

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Ibanez

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki.

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Ibanez Destroyer

The Destroyer is an Ibanez brand electric guitar model (originally) manufactured at the FujiGen-Gakki musical instrument factory for the Hoshino-Gakki Company.

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Jackson Guitars

Jackson is a manufacturer of electric guitars and electric bass guitars that bears the name of its founder, Grover Jackson.

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Jackson Kelly (guitar)

The Jackson Kelly or KE is a heavily modified version of the Gibson Explorer produced by Jackson Guitars.

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John Entwistle

John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an English bass guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film and music producer.

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Kahler Tremolo System

The Kahler Tremolo System is an electric guitar bridge with a cam operated vibrato arm system.

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Kramer Guitars

Kramer Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses.

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List of Peavey guitars

Peavey Guitars are electric, acoustic, and electric bass guitars branded by Peavey Electronics.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd, or informally shortened to Skynyrd, is an American rock band best known for having popularized the Southern rock genre during the 1970s.

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Mahogany

Mahogany is a kind of wood—the straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).

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Mains hum

Mains hum, electric hum, or power line hum is a sound associated with alternating current at the frequency of the mains electricity.

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Matt Heafy

Matthew Kiichi Heafy (born January 26, 1986) is a Japanese American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the American heavy metal band Trivium.

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Matthias Jabs

Matthias Jabs (born October 25, 1955) is a German guitarist and songwriter.

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Nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, and flash string) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent.

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P-90

The P-90 (sometimes written P90) is a single coil electric guitar pickup produced by Gibson since 1946.

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Pickguard

A pickguard (also known as scratchplate) is a piece of plastic or other (often laminated) material that is placed on the body of a guitar, mandolin or similar plucked string instrument.

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PRS Guitars

PRS Guitars (also known as Paul Reed Smith Guitars) is an American guitar manufacturer headquartered in Stevensville, Maryland, founded by luthier Paul Reed Smith in 1985.

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Rick Nielsen

Richard Alan Nielsen (born December 22, 1948) is the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Cheap Trick.

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Terminalia superba

Terminalia superba, the superb terminalia, limba, or afara (UK), korina (US), is a large tree in the family Combretaceae, native to tropical western Africa.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Trivium (band)

Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999.

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Tune-o-matic

Tune-o-matic (also abbreviated to TOM) is the name of a fixed or floating bridge design for electric guitars.

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Vibrato systems for guitar

A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings.

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Vintage guitar

A vintage guitar is an older guitar usually sought after and maintained by avid collectors or musicians.

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Vintage Guitar (magazine)

Vintage Guitar magazine is a consumer publication that focuses on vintage and classic fretted instruments, amplifiers, effects, and related gear, as well as notable players from all genres and eras.

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Warwick (company)

Warwick is a Germany-based bass guitar manufacturer company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Explorer

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