Gibson Les Paul

The Gibson Les Paul is a solidbody electric guitar originally developed in the early 1950s. The Les Paul was originally designed by jazz/pop guitarist Les Paul. The Les Paul model was the result of a design collaboration between Gibson Guitar Corporation and pop star, electronics inventor, and accomplished jazz guitarist Les Paul. In 1950, after the introduction of the Fender Telecaster to the musical market, electric guitars became a public craze. In reaction, Gibson Guitar president Ted McCarty brought guitarist Les Paul into the company as a consultant. Les Paul was a respected innovator who had been experimenting with guitar design for years to benefit his own music. In fact, he had hand-built a solid-body prototype called "The Log", a design widely considered the first solid-body Spanish guitar ever built, as opposed to the "Hawaiian", or lap-steel guitar. Although numerous other prototypes and limited-production solid-body models by other makers have since surfaced, it is... full article at wikipedia