Category:Gibson Style U

**Gibson Style U**
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Instance of	harp guitar;
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"Gibson Style U - Harp Guitar". Vintage Guitar (Oct. '05).
Benoît Meulle-Stef. "Chapter 2. The First Years of Production: Style U, U1, R and R1" in Gregg Miner , ed. THE GIBSON HARP GUITAR
"[image 1] At $265.96, this harp guitar which Gibson called the "18-string harp guitar" is a true monster with a total length of 48 inches, 21 inches width, guitar scale of 27 ¼ inches like a modern baritone guitar, and a maximum length of 35 ½ inches for the sub-bass strings. The rest of the guitar is very close to the STYLE R1 apart from a strange adjustable extension steel rubber-capped rod, eighteen inches long, enabling the performer to hold the instrument in an upright position (states the catalogue). The twelve sub-bass strings are tuned chromatically starting with the E flat just below the guitar Low E. The model was basically an 18 string giant. / [image 2] This is the only known image of an actual Style U specimen from the 1903 catalog! Rope binding, scroll on the headstock with no "The Gibson" logo, 6X2 bass tuners and banjo tuners for the guitar strings. Until I saw this, I wasn't even sure that they ever actually made the 'catalog model.' I wonder if this one had the stand spike? (Photo courtesy of Michael Wright) "