1955 Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster Hollowbody Electric Guitar Used
$20,000
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- $20,000
The Guitar That Put Three Pickups on the Map In 1955, Gibson took their already-remarkable ES-5 and made it genuinely practical. The result was the ES-5 Switchmaster — a name that came directly from the four-position selector switch mounted on the Venetian cutaway, which finally gave players a fast, intuitive way to navigate three pickups without treating their guitar like a mixing board. This is a first-year Switchmaster, one of the earliest examples of a configuration that remains influentia