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Gibson Unveils New Midtown Standard P-90 Guitar

The Midtown Standard P-90 maintains trimmed-down and player-friendly body size of the earlier Midtown Standard and Midtown Custom

Nashville, TN (July 27, 2012) – Gibson’s newest guitar model merges the best attributes of Gibson's legendary solidbody and archtop electric guitars.  The Midtown Standard P-90 maintains trimmed-down and player-friendly body size of the earlier Midtown Standard and Midtown Custom, and features the Midtown line's advanced chambered, solid-wood construction (rather than laminated top and back) to truly embody the optimum marriage of solidbody and archtop.

The Midtown Standard P-90 is loaded with a pair of fat- and rich-sounding P-90 single-coil pickups, and is dressed in a hand-sprayed, high-gloss nitrocellulose finish in your choice of Fireburst, Vintage Sunburst, Heritage Cherry Sunburst, Wine Red or Pelham Blue. 

The Midtown Standard P-90 features premium tonewoods, using Grade-A timbers beneath the four transparent finish options (with Grade-C grain beneath the Pelham Blue guitars). A solid mahogany body is strategically chambered for optimum resonance and capped with a solid maple top with traditional f-holes. Its solid mahogany neck is carved to a fast, comfortable '60s-style profile that measures .800" at the 1st fret and .875" at the 12th. The genuine rosewood fingerboard carries 22 medium-jumbo frets and is inlaid with traditional acrylic trapezoids that link the Midtown Standard P-90 to one of its predecessors, the Les Paul Standard, while cream binding enhances both fingerboard and body top. To best show off its finishes, the Midtown Standard P-90 is built without a pickguard. 

Each guitar features a pair of Gibson's legendary P-90 pickups. These beloved pickups have a fatter, richer tone than thinner single-coils, and provide everything from thick grit and snarl for rock 'n' roll, to rich, creamy warmth for jazz, to singing blues tones with great snappy and funky tones in between. Each pickup is made to the same specs as the vintage examples that made the P-90 famous, including coils wound from 42-AWG wire with two Alnico V magnets loaded beneath each pickup. To keep it all simple, Gibson USA routes these pickups through the traditional 3-way toggle switch and master volume and tone controls with classic gold Speed Knobs. For optimum resonance and sustain, the Midtown Standard P-90s carries the classic pairing of a Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece with a PLEK-cut Corian™ nut up top, partnered with a set of premium Grover™ Keystone tuners. 

Each guitar comes protected in a plush-lined hardshell case with black exterior and includes owner's manual and adjustment literature along with Gibson's Limited Lifetime Warranty and 24/7/365 customer service.

MSRP is $1999, Street price is $1299

For more information:
www.gibson.com


     

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Jeff Meek
on 01/15/2013 		I managed to purchase the"last available"I understand, pelham blue Midtown at Christmas.What a guitar,beautiful in every way.Cant fault it.
RonR
on 11/26/2012 		As of right now its been discontinued and is selling in the US for 799.00 including hard shell case.
Don
on 08/07/2012 		I own a midtown standard with Bigsby. It's one hell of a guitar. The acrylic inlay's on this model however look cheap. The richlite fret-board with the dotmakers have my preference - very smooth
Jim M
on 08/05/2012 		Two PUPS 4 knobs Not 2 . Vol & Tone for each PUP . And a softer look than cream color PUPS . Black is better in my eyes , it appears more " Balanced " on a sunburst finish . Cream on the Blonde finishes = Balance Not that Black Pups don't look good on blond . They do . Just an opinion .
Tom
on 08/03/2012 		If they offered a bigger neck, I'd be really excited.
Funknbluezer
on 08/02/2012 		A guitar at a decent price. Bravo Gibson. I only wish it had "dog ear" P-90's. That being said this is a beautiful guitar.
guitarboy
on 08/02/2012 		I played one of the humbucker Midtowns last week and it's a great guitar. I can imagine this really rocks with P-90s. I hope this catches on. It's a great guitar at a decent price and it looks fabulous!
ed the chief
on 08/01/2012 		to little, to late, that is the question, then again it could be too little and too late, that would be the real question.
doghead
on 07/31/2012 		Regarding first comment, too little too late for what? It is actually a nice, intelligently made (though locking Grovers would have been a better choice; I can settle, however, for getting metal keystones rather than the too-common plastic) guitar. That kind is always welcome.
Charlie
on 07/30/2012 		I want a Heritage Cherry Sunburst model.



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