Beautiful 1967 Gibson Barney Kessel Custom hollow body guitar in sunburst with a particularly superb and desirable vibrant red/orange/yellow flaming, in period hard case.

This belonged to a member of the Grampian Television orchestra before I purchased is as a teenager in the late 1980's.

Plays like melted chocolate on a late summers evening...it's a shame I'm not a good enough player to have got close to doing it justice. 


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The Gibson Barney Kessel came in two variations, the simple necked Regular and the maple-necked Custom, both available from 1961 until 1973. The Custom was a deluxe instrument; ornate 'bow-tie' inlays, inlaid 'note' headstock design and gold plating throughout, whilst the regular had nickel (later chrome) hardware and split-parallelogram inlays. Naturally the Custom was placed at a significantly higher price point than the Regular, $560 and $395 respectively (1/9/61 Gibson price list). Both models were were produced at Gibson's legendary Kalamazoo plant, in Michigan, USA.

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