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It's the headstock of the aforementioned guitar that Fender pretty much aped. Even though Leo said he had appropriated it from early European instruments he had seen the MT guitar before he changed his headstock design.
Exactly this. The question comes up now and again on the Les Paul Forum. If I could be bothered searching I'd find the reply from Big Al who as an authorised Gibson repair man visited Kalamazoo in the 70's. He spent time with the older guys there asking lots of questions. They said the design was just one of the chaps in the white wood dept. (I forget his name) who was asked to come up with a solid body which could be used as a basis for the LP model. So it's just that - a single cutaway guitar shape but with a profiled top that one of their wood workers drew and made. No big design stealing conspiracy.
It seems clear to me that Gibson just made their 1st solidbody to look like what they thought a guitar should look like. They had been making archtops in this shape for donkey’s years anyway.
Single cut guitars were already common in the 40s, and I don’t see that the APP shape has any precedent for the LP. It’s curious that the book headstock and TRC are Gibsonesque on the APP though?!
and why did this presenter character not even bother to research any guitar history?
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