| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
| Total number of notes: | 61432 |
About the i in Gibson...
I asked this question in the music notes file and someone suggested
that I write this notes file.
Does anyone know why the letter i is dotted on some of their
guitars and why it isn't on others? I have heard various reasons
but none of them consistent. Having owned several different Gibsons
(some with dotted i's some without)in my 20+ years of playing them,
I,m still curious about this.
thanx
dennis_who_can_still_hear_well_and_uses_two_marshalls
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 129.1 | No dots... | PARSEC::MELENDEZ | Thu Dec 18 1986 13:40 | 5 | |
I asked about this to a Gibson dealer. He says it does not mean
anything. The tale goes the one who was putting the logos would
not put the dot on the 'i' for the guitars which were not good enough
to have the dot on them. This individual was fired from Gibson
and now works as an executive at Digital.
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| 129.2 | or where the dot is dotted | PRANCR::LEVETT | don't you know anything NEW? | Thu Dec 18 1986 18:32 | 15 |
The thing I always wondered was why some of the dots were right
next to the upper part of the "G" and others right over the "i"
as in
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Was later told it depended on whether it was a decal (version 1)
or an inlay (version 2) but I could never substantiate that.
_stew-
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