Hardware features gold Epiphone deluxe machine heads, an ever-reliable bone nut and saddle combo, and sleek ivory colour pins. Embedded are classy mother of pearl split parallelogram inlays to complete the look. An acoustic for any situation.Īttached is a comfortable rounded “C” neck with a familiar 24.74 inch scale length fretboard containing contemporary medium-jumbo frets. Shredfest 5 Kid’s Cancer Benefit and Auction – Apr.Made of a solid mahogany and sitka spruce top, the Hummingbird relies on a tried on tested combination for its gorgeous warmth and strong acoustic projection.2003 Fender Japan Jazz Bass 62-75US Review.Epiphone Hummingbird Acoustic Guitar Review.Willie "Big Eyes" Smith & Roger "Hurricane" Wilson.Review of A Chorus Line by Musical Theatre West at.1994 Fender Stratocaster ST62-58 Electric Guitar R.This is really the best acoustic deal on the market right now. But if you buy a new one you get the Epiphone Limited Lifetime Warranty and Gibson 24/7/365 customer service. If you look around you can find even better deals online, and used ones are embarrassingly cheap. The Epiphone Hummingbird has a list price of $499, and a street price of $299. I have saved the best for last, and that is the price. Keep in mind that this is not an expensive guitar, and everything is relative… And best of all, this guitar has a gloriously loud tone and a relatively balanced sound from string to string. The neck can be adjusted for a low and fast action, though a little nut filing may be needed. The tuners hold well, and in general the intonation is good.
The finish quality is good, and the frets are as good as the ones that you will find on a new Gibson Les Paul (which is not saying much, I guess). Why do so many manufacturers only give you one?Īnd the Epiphone Hummingbird is really well put together. One welcome piece of hardware is two strap pins. On one end there are chrome Grove tuners (though the factory calls them nickel), and on the other end there is a compensated synthetic bones bridge saddle. The rosewood fretboard has pearloid parallelogram inlays and there is an adjustable trussrod. It has a 1.68-inch wide nut and 20 frets with a 15 ½-inch scale. The slim-taper profile neck is quite good.
EPIPHONE HUMMINGBIRD PRO
For the life of me I cannot figure out Gibson puts a plain guard on the Hummingbird Pro models. Oh yes, and it has the signature hummingbird-decorated pickguard, which I am quite fond of. The body is sprayed in a bright Heritage Cherry Sunburst, which is probably my least favorite part of this guitar. The fretboard and bridge are made of real rosewood, which is amazing when you consider that Gibson is using all kind of bizarre stuff for Les Paul fretboards instead of rosewood.
The woods are surprisingly good, with a solid spruce top and a bound mahogany body and neck.
EPIPHONE HUMMINGBIRD FULL
The Epiphone version here was made in Indonesia and it is chock full of good materials and parts so the labor costs must be almost non-existent. It is pretty much Gibson’s answer to Martin’s D-series guitars. This flat-top has been adopted by plenty of high-profile players over the years, including Keith Richards, John Mellencamp, Sheryl Crow and Tom Petty.
The Hummingbird was Gibson’s first square-shoulder dreadnought which was introduced in 1960. Though much maligned, these imported guitars can be quite good. Surely you know of Epiphone, they produce the entry-level Gibson brand instruments that get re-sold for almost nothing as soon as a guitarist can scrape up enough dosh for a real Gibson. One example of this would be the Epiphone Hummingbird acoustic guitar. Don’t get me wrong, there is no substitute for a Santa Cruz acoustic or a Sadowsky bass, but there are some great values out there for short money. There are some very nice budget guitars out there, and as you add hundreds or even thousands of dollars to the price the improvements in tone and playability are not commensurate with the amount spent. The law of diminishing returns turns out to be true in almost every case where it is applied, and the cost of musical instruments is no exception.
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