The Maybach Capitol '59 Aged has an Arched Maple Top, Arched Maple Back, Maple Sides, Mahogany Neck, Indian Rosewood Fingerboard, Gotoh SD 90 Tuners, Tune-o-Matic Style Bridge, 2 x Amber Spirit of 59 Pickups, Incl. Hard Case.
This guitar design was a sensation in 1958 – because it represented the missing link between hollow and solid bodies. Built like a thinline archtop with an arched top and back, ingenious minds ensured that the only weak points of such archtop guitars were a thing of the past. Because thanks to the new two humbucker pickups, there were hum-free sounds for the first time in history. And so that these sounds could be played at high volumes of the new music of this time – Electric Blues, Rock ’n‘ Roll, and, from the 1960s, Blues Rock to Rock – without feedback and drone, a center block ran lengthwise from the neck to the lower end of the body, suppressing all the body’s own resonances. Thus, the semi-acoustic guitar was born! And the rest is history.
Specifications:
- Brand : Maybach
- Model : Capitol '59 Aged
- Colour : Cherry Red
- Finish : Nitrocellulose
- SKU : MY-000064
- Body Shape : Thinline Semi-Hollow
- Top : Arched Maple
- Back : Arched Maple
- Sides : Maple
- Binding : Cream
- Neck : Mahogany
- Fingerboard : Indian Rosewood
- Fingerboard Inlays : MOP Dots
- Fingerboard Radius : 12"
- Nut Width : 42.8mm
- Nut Material : Bone
- Frets : Medium Jumbo
- Pickguard : Black
- Tuners : Gotoh SD 90
- Bridge : Tune-o-Matic Style
- Tailpiece : Stopbar
- Pickups : 2 x Amber Spirit of 59
- Controls : 2 x Volume, 2 x Tone, 3 Position Pickup Selector
- No. of Strings : 6
- Case/Gigbag : Hard Case
- Condition : New