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previous: Steve A. Todd:5/22/2003 1:36 AM

Re: Anyone done the Gibson factory tour in Memphis?

5/22/2003 3:51 AM
Buffaloe	Re: Anyone done the Gibson factory tour in Memphis? Yes, it's worth $10 to see how Gibson has made guitar building into a factory line event. My guess is that Henry Ford would have choked with emotion over how they make a guitar for "every man". I saw boxes of necks with fretboards ready to assemble to whatever body happened to come through the line without consideration of whether the pieces fit together or not. They might as well be making sewing machines. There is no art involved in what comes out of Memphis, just "product." Please, spend the $10 and see what these "instruments" are really about.

5/22/2003 3:51 AM

Buffaloe

Re: Anyone done the Gibson factory tour in Memphis?

Yes, it's worth $10 to see how Gibson has made guitar building into a factory line event. My guess is that Henry Ford would have choked with emotion over how they make a guitar for "every man". I saw boxes of necks with fretboards ready to assemble to whatever body happened to come through the line without consideration of whether the pieces fit together or not. They might as well be making sewing machines. There is no art involved in what comes out of Memphis, just "product." Please, spend the $10 and see what these "instruments" are really about.

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