1967 Gibson ES-175D

This late-60s sparkle finish was highly irregular for Gibson's successful electric hollowbody

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''When I was a teenager, it seemed as if people had forgotten about the earlier P-90 175s [Gibson moved to humbuckers in ’57]. I had bought an ES-175D at a local garage sale that had changed pegs. It had two P-90s and it was really good. I used it mostly around the house, acoustically, to write and play songs. I always liked it because it had that archtop sound, and when I plugged it in, it didn’t feed back – as long as I didn’t turn it up really loud. It was a very warm-sounding instrument. A lot of people don’t think about those P-90 guitars enough; they just tend to go for the humbucking guitars. But the dual [‘D’] P-90 pickup models are really nice.