Around 1880, Orville Gibson moved from his native ... Lloyd Loar’s Master Series L-5 guitar of 1922 defined the contemporary ...

the special measures used to carve archtop guitars, and the matchbooking of soundboards for dreadnoughts et al. It is around this time we learn that Gibson brought the f-hole to the guitar in the ...

Its guitars have been played by the likes of Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, and now Gibson is opening a central London store.