The Gibson ES-225 is a thinline hollowbody
electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...
model produced by the
Gibson Guitar Corporation between 1955 and 1959. It is notable as the first thinline hollowbody guitar produced by Gibson.
History
![1957 Gibson ES-225TD](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/1957_Gibson_ES-225TD.jpg)
The ES-225 was originally introduced in 1955 as the ES-225T, a thinline hollowbody guitar featuring a Florentine
cutaway, the Les Paul combined bridge and tailpiece (also used on the
Les Paul from 1952 to 1953 and on the
ES-295
The Gibson ES-295 (1952-1959) is a hollow body guitar which was built by the Gibson Guitar Company. The ES-295 was introduced in May 1952 as a fancier version of the ES-175. The 295 had the same measurements as the ES-175, but it came in gold fin ...
), a laminated pickguard, and a single
P-90
The P-90 (sometimes written P90) is a single coil electric guitar pickup produced by Gibson since 1946. Gibson is still producing P-90s, and there are outside companies that manufacture replacement versions. Compared to other single coil desi ...
pickup mounted in an unusual position midway between the bridge and the end of the fingerboard. From 1956 the ES-225TD, a twin pickup model with conventional pickup positioning, was also available.Both models had a tobacco
sunburst finish, with more expensive natural finish models (ES225TN and ES-225TDN) also available from 1956.
[Duchossoir A R (1998). ''Gibson Electrics: The Classic Years''. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, p. 229][''Gibson Electric Guitars and Amplifiers'', 1958 catalogue](_blank)
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Gibson, Inc. p.9
Specifications
The specifications remained the same during the period the guitars were manufactured, with the exception that in 1959 a few guitars were made with separate trapeze-style tailpieces and floating
Tune-o-matic bridges.
When the guitar was initially marketed it was the first thinline hollowbody guitar Gibson had produced,
[Wheeler T (1992). ''American Guitars: An Illustrated History''. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, p. 139] preceding the
Byrdland and
ES-350T models.
[Duchossoir A R (1981). ''Gibson Electrics''. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, p. 112] In 1959 the ES-225 was phased out in favour of the
ES-330 and
ES-125T models.
[Duchossoir A R (1998). ''Gibson Electrics: The Classic Years''. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, p. 82]
Reception
Gibson shipped 5,220 of the single pickup ES-225 and 2,754 of the twin pickup models.
References
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ES-225
The Gibson ES-225 is a thinline hollowbody electric guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation between 1955 and 1959. It is notable as the first thinline hollowbody guitar produced by Gibson.
History
The ES-225 was originally introdu ...
Semi-acoustic guitars
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