Chicago Music Exchange | 3 years ago
Built to be played as part of a big band in dance halls of the swing era, this 1947 Gibson Super 400 is the biggest guitar Gibson ever produced! Made a decade before Gibson electrified these guitars with pickups (first, P-90s; later, PAFs), this Super 400N variant in Natural finish is one of the most sought after versions of an already iconic and influential instrument. Come into Chicago Music Exchange to try it out yourself, before it’s gone!
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More About the Gibson Super 400!
There are few guitars as important to the history and development of Gibson as a major manufacturer of six-stringed instruments as the Super 400 and Super 400-CES. The model first appeared in 1934 as an archtop acoustic with no cutaway, simply named the Super 400. As it was then – and still remains today in the Super 400-CES – the Super 400 was the largest guitar the company had ever produced, with an astounding body width of 18 inches. But as Gibson has evolved over the years to adapt to the industry’s ever-changing advancements, so have its Super 400s. The earliest Super 400 models were quite similar to Gibson’s other archtop acoustic, the L-5, and featured a hand-engraved tailpiece and hand-engraved finger rest support, along with an “L-5 Super” truss rod cover. In 1939, the guitar underwent several changes that still remain with it today, including an enlarged upper bout, a new tailpiece similar to the one on the L-5, enlarged f-holes and a venetian cutaway option that is now a standard feature. Although the Super 400s were discontinued during the mid-1940s because of the supply shortages of WWII, Gibson reintroduced the model in 1949.
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