1. Gibson Kalamazoo Guitar Serial Numbers
2. Gibson Kalamazoo Guitar Serial Numbers
3. Guitar Serial Numbers Epiphone
4. Kalamazoo Bass Guitar Serial Numbers

Our tours of the factory at 225 Parsons Street in Kalamazoo are popular with guitarists, music enthusiasts and anyone proud of a great American story. Join us to experience this illustrious piece of guitar-making history. Certain guitar models built in the late 1970s can be used to demonstrate the old-style, six-digit serial numbers. It is estimated that Gibson’s Kalamazoo plant continued to use the six-digit serial numbers through 1978 and 1979. The Kalamazoo guitars and basses used a lot of standard Gibson hardware, though had bolt-on maple necks, and chipboard bodies. Serial numbers are the same as Gibson serial numbers at.

1. The “Banner” Gibson guitar is considered one of the finest acoustic guitars ever made. Over 9,000 of these Banners were carefully built during World War II.
2. I was just in Seattle Wash. And went to Emerald City Guitars, a great guitar shop btw. They currently have a small Kalamazoo KG14 that was just a dream to play and sounded fantastic. Really old and been though alot, it has side and top cracks that have been repaired.
3. Unfortunately, Kalamazoo instruments often do not have the model name or number stamped anywhere on the guitar, making identification difficult. Kalamazoo only produced two variations of flat top acoustics, so it is a fairly easy process of elimination.

Introduction

Gibson Kalamazoo Guitar Serial Numbers

Meet the budget classic that saved Gibson’s neck, survived the dust bowl of Depression-era America and played a role in the very strange life of Satan’s guitar hero…

Gibson Kalamazoo Guitar Serial Numbers

The Great Depression of the early 1930s hit America hard. No-one was spared, from dirt farmers to sportsmen such as ‘Cinderella Man’ James J Braddock, to the car plants in Detroit.

Guitar Serial Numbers Epiphone

Things were so bleak that the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan cut back on guitar production to make wooden toys or anything else that could keep the workers employed. Ironically, at a time when the guitar was beginning to eclipse the popularity of the piano, accordion and banjo, few could afford to buy a quality Gibson instrument.

Kalamazoo Bass Guitar Serial Numbers

The fact that the company survived America’s toughest decade at all is down to Gibson’s president, a brilliant businessman named Guy Hart...