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The Les Paul was introduced by Gibson in 1952 around the same time as Fender’s Stratocaster and Telecaster. Over the years the Les Paul has become one of the most enduring and popular musical instrument models in the world and along with the Stratocaster and Telecaster is instantly recognizable.

The Les Paul model was designed by the Jazz guitarist Les Paul and the Gibson Company. The 1952 Les Paul featured two single-coil pickups, and a one-piece, ‘trapeze’-style bridge and tailpiece. The Les Paul is a heavy instrument and is famed for it’s sustain and tone. These characteristics are largely due to the Les Paul’s construction and choice of materials.

The new guitar was an expensive response to the seemingly plain, “manufactured” construction of the Stratocaster and Telecaster. Gibson already manufactured hollow-body guitars since the 1930s, but the Les Paul proved a radical move with some contrasting differences between fender models. .

Today’s Les Paul consists of a set neck, 3 on one side tuners, usually two humbucking pickups, and a single cut away body w/ a 3 way pickup selector switch. The Les Paul now comes in many variants Standard, Custom, and Deluxe. Each variant has a choice of finishes and fittings making the instrument wide ranging in it’s the music it can be applied to.

Many recording artists have used the Les Paul, in the 60’s artists such as Eric Clapton and others from the British Blues Bloom realized the potential of the guitar and it became very popular. Today guitarists such as Slash, Joe Perry are widely associated with the instrument.
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