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    Less Is More

    Jun 30, 2020 3 minutes
    BY MICK TAYLOR

    IMAGINE IT’S 1960 and you’re working for Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan. You’re sitting at a table with other employees looking at what will one day become the Holy Grail of electric guitars: the sunburst Les Paul Standard from the period 1958 to 1960. It has Honduran mahogany, big-leaf maple, Brazilian rosewood and PAF humbucking pickups. It is timeless and achingly beautiful.

    But the financial picture for this guitar isn’t pretty. The company revived the Les Paul with humbucking pickups in 1957, and again in ’58

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