The Gibson L1: a Modern Recreation

2023
AL#150 p.6               
Sjaak Elmendorp                                                                                           

▪ The technology and fashion of wooden instruments move forward inexorably, although whether that “forward” motion is the same as improvement can be a matter of debate for decades or centuries. Elmendorp made what he calls a “faithful impression rather than accurate reproduction” of a 1907-style Gibson L1: small body, carved top, floating bridge, round hole.