'79 ES-175CC Tobacco Sunburst with Charlie Christian pickup in super conditions code GI67
Rare 1979 Gibson ES-175CC - Sunburst hollowbody Jazz
guitar, all original in Excellent condition also the Original Gibson Case. Very
nice neck with low action, frets are very good ready to play. It's basically a
regular ES-175 with Charlie Christian pickup and 3-piece maple neck. Arched
slab-cut maple top, sides and back; dual-parallelogram mother of pearl
fingerboard inlay and thistle peghead inlay; triple bound top, bound back.
16 1/4" wide Archtop body, singlecutaway maple body with no center block,
Including original Gibson hardshell case.
Triple bound top + single bound back, 3-piece maple neck, 42,5mm indian rosewood
fretboard,Pearloid split parallelogramm inlays, 20 frets in great condition, 1x
orig. Gibson Charlie Christian pickup, 1x Volume, 1x Tone control, Compensated
wooden bridge, Trapeze tailpiece, Chrome Hardware.
Solid 3 piece maple neck; solid rosewood fingerboard; arched slab-cut maple top,
sides and back; dual-parallelogram mother of pearl fingerboard inlay and thistle
peghead inlay; triple bound top, bound back. Charlie Christian was an extremely
popular influential and busy guitarist in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s,
famously in the Benny Goodman band. Unfortunately he contracted tuberculosis,
and died in 1942 at the age of 25. He most often used a Gibson ES-150, with the
single coil pickup that has come to be named after him.
The Charlie Christian pickup was one of the first successful pickup designs.
Christian wanted to emulate the tenor saxophone, and this pickup offers deep,
rich tones. The original designs used a rather large, heavy metal mount with
three screws through the guitar top for installation and adjustment.
John McLaughlin with a Bigsby / Charlie Christian ES-175CC