This early 1960s Gretsch advertisement for Gretsch guitars features bebop jazz guitarist Sal Salvador (and band) with a Gretsch Convertable 6199 archtop guitar. The Sal Salvador Big Bands's influential 'Colours in Sound' album was released in 1958.
What's new in electric guitars? Many Gretsch "firsts": built-in electronic sound systems - binaural or Gretsch Project-O-Sonic sound at the flick of a switch... new Filtertron heads - no electronic hum.... all ebony Neo Classic fingerboards... new space control bridge
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