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Trade in your Gibson Hummingbird 2018, Vintage Cherry Sunburst with Gear4music. Whether you're looking to update your collection or seeking a different sound profile, this iconic model, with its deep resonance and classic aesthetic, could be your ticket to a new musical journey. Consider exploring guitars that offer a different body style or a new wood combination, which could provide a fresh tonal palette or a more suitable feel for your playing style. It’s a chance to diversify your sound with instruments that inspire new creativity and enhance your performance.
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The Gibson Hummingbird features a stunning sitka spruce top, delivering a broad dynamic range and crisp articulation. Sitka spruce projects a sparkling high response and tight, clear attack perfect for pronounced players. The wood itself is quite elastic in nature, which resonates well whilst remaining strong, and provides a focused, clear sound of deep lows, warm midi-range, and bright sparkling highs. The Hummingbird's sitka spruce top is accompanied by mahogany back and sides that add a characterised warmth to its sweet and brightly toned sitka spruce top. Used as back and side panels the mahogany delivers a meaty mid-range, producing punchy, woody tones with plenty of depth and complexity that will please most playing styles.
To provide a strong and durable playing experience, the Hummingbird's neck has been crafted from mahogany, offering a rich and resonant sound. Mahogany responds greatly to picking, strumming, and various finger techniques with equal ease. The neck is topped with a rosewood fingerboard that produces warmth and a bright sizzling-sparkle that really shines through when using fingerpicking techniques. The rosewood fingerboard also offers a smooth and energetic playing experience, and is topped with mother of pearl parallelogram inlays for added elegance.
The Gibson Hummingbird features a square shouldered body shape that projects an enormous voice and maintains overall tonal balance. The square shoulders deliver a great bass response due to sound having more room to reverberate around the body. The big body is ideal for players with a longer reach, and those more comfortable with the dreadnought size. The sheer volume the Hummingbird can project makes it the perfect choice for the singer/songwriter. Vocalists can really push their diaphragm to the max and not feel too loud against the guitar's volume, as the Hummingbird will sing as loud as you do.
The Gibson Hummingbird comes equipped with the popular VTC Element Pickup from L.R. Baggs, which features a low-profile undersaddle pickup that's proven more stable and durable than many standard ribbon-type pickups. Combined with an unobtrusive and removable volume/tone control mounted just inside the soundhole, the Element delivers a performance not previously attainable from an undersaddle pickup. Its sleek and effective design removes unnecessary internal components to enhance the coupling between the pickup and the guitar, and improve the sensitivity for a robust, lively, and natural acoustic sound with excellent dynamics and delicate high end. The Element works with a standard 9V battery, which is housed inside the guitar.