Day 5 - Gibson factory tour
Monday, 14. September 2009, 00:59:01
A couple of hours gave us about as much Elvis as we could stomach, so we headed towards downtown Memphis. Memphis just felt "Right". Local feel but a proper city nonetheless. Completely different from Nashville. Decided we should stay the night in town so we could sample the local beer. Nina and Per sorted out accommodation while Marianne and med went to the Gibson factory tour.
The Gibson guitar company has a two factories in Tennessee, the main one in Nashville, and one in Memphis. The Memphis one mainly produces all the Jazz and blues hollow-bodies, but also a handful of other guitars, like the double head SGs.
The tour was OK. Got to see the different parts of the production line. Was a lot more "industrialized" than I'd imagined though. Every station on the floor did one tiny thing, so in a way, no one was a proper guitar maker.
I would've posted more pictures, but that wasn't allowed. I will spare you the bad jokes on Fender's expense to explain this.
The Gibson guitar company has a two factories in Tennessee, the main one in Nashville, and one in Memphis. The Memphis one mainly produces all the Jazz and blues hollow-bodies, but also a handful of other guitars, like the double head SGs.
The tour was OK. Got to see the different parts of the production line. Was a lot more "industrialized" than I'd imagined though. Every station on the floor did one tiny thing, so in a way, no one was a proper guitar maker.
I would've posted more pictures, but that wasn't allowed. I will spare you the bad jokes on Fender's expense to explain this.
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