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The Gibson 175: Its History and Its Players

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This is considered the best book on the ES-175 and there is some justification for that, it traces the history, gives insights into the design features and how they evolved, contains numerous photographs and has comments from major artists who employed this guitar regularly as their instrument of choice. However, it reads now as quite dated, probably not having been edited since the mid-1990s, so more recent designs are missing. Further, paragraph closing sentences are chopped off in one or two places and specific details in the text such as instrument measurements are left as "?" presumably under the assumption that they would be filled in at proofing, which clearly did not happen, making for a sloppy delivery of the author's efforts. Still, if you want to get familiar with the instrument, this is as good a place as any to start. A little pricey for what you get but, how true that is of anything Gibson.

This is a good book for one of the most classic jazz guitar of all time. Photos in black/white and color, and a history of the guitar. With the same format as in the same book publisher dedicated to the Gibson L-5 and Gibson 335.