Gibson Byrdland
The Gibson Byrdland is a thin-body archtop electric guitar introduced in the mid 1950s, designed with the country and jazz players Billy Byrd and Hank Garland. It takes the shape of the company's large archtops but reduces the body depth and the scale length substantially, which makes the instrument easier to hold and simplifies the long stretches required by jazz phrasing. It carries two humbucking or, in the earliest examples, single-coil pickups with the usual control set, and it has been produced with various finishes and fittings, becoming one of Gibson's classic archtop designs.
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