Orville gibson bio
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Orville Gibson
Orville H. Gibson (1856 - 1918) born in Chateaugay, New York, Gibson was a luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Corporation in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
His father was John Gibson, of England. Before making instruments as a full time job, Gibson held various day jobs while pursuing his hobby, which was making guitars and mandolins. For unknown reasons, possibly to seek therapy at a world-famous sanitarium in nearby Battle Creek, he moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1890. There he made musical instruments and applied for his first and only patent in 1895. His designs were a departure from the traditional Italian-style mandolins looks and technical features. His mandolins featured a relatively flat carved back, a carved top, and a longer fretboard to make room for easier fingering. They were constructed with either a teardrop-shaped or a Florentine style with points and scroll. Mandolins of this design would eventually replace the popular bowl-back instruments of that era. In 1902, he sold his patent rights to a group of businessmen, as part of the establishment of a company that bore his name. He then continued of on and off as a part-time or full time employee of the Gibson Company, earning an averag
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Orville H. Gibson was born in 1856 on a farm near the small town of Chateaugay, New York, in an area known as “Earlville,” about one hour north of Lake Placid and about an hour south of Montreal. The youngest child of John W. and Amy Nichols Gibson, Orville was one of five children sharing a home with sisters Pluma and Emma, and brothers Ozro and Lovell. John, Orville’s father, was an immigrant of England and his mother Amy was from Peru, New York.
It is unclear why Orville travelled from his home in upstate New York to Michigan, but records indicate his concerns about health and well being, and it is possible that he may have been drawn initially to Battle Creek to seek therapy at a world-famous health spa run by Dr. John Harvey Kellog. Regardless of the reasons for his move, by 1890 he ended up in Kalamazoo, a small industrial city in the southwestern part of the state where he took up the hobby of making musical instruments. In 1885, Orville had a job as a clerk at A.P. Sprague’s shoe store at 118 East Main Street, and by 1893 he was working as a clerk at Butters Restaurant on 216 East Main. His day jobs were supporting his hobby, and his hobby was soon to play a totally different role in his life.
On May 11, 1896, Orville filed for his first and only paten
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Orville by Gibson
Japanese-market guitar brand
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History
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