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More Info
This guitar was made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is all original with sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, mahogany back, sides and neck; spruce top, rosewood fingerboard. The J-160E was originally introduced by Gibsons in 1954 and designed specifically for country/western performers getting drowned out by their increasingly well-amplified bands, the fairly fancy 16" Jumbo sported the same electronics (a specially adapted P-90 pickup) and cosmetic features as the earlier small-body CF-100E.
Unlike that guitar (and all other period Gibson flat-tops), the J-160E features a laminated spruce top with a ladder-braced design, Gibson's engineers having found that the decreased top resonance helped reduce feedback when amplified. Gibson's J-160E is now remembered primarily as one of the iconic "Beatle guitars" of the 1960s. John Lennon and George Harrison both used 1962 J-160Es as recording and touring instruments extensively during the band's early '60s breakthrough period, and this particular Gibson model remains indelibly linked to the Beatles legacy both visually and sonically.