(Sonstiges) Die Harmony , die macht echt hie ! ;-) Ein echt familiärer "Testbericht "...

Beitrag von Broadcaster vom August 21. 2002 um 09:49:35:

Hallo zusammen,

Hier ein netter Testbericht eines Gitarrespielers, original entnommen aus "Harmony-Central" , den ich Euch nicht vorenthalten wollte :))

....wahrscheinlich hat er die auch die familiäre "Harmony-Central" voll in "seinen" Testbericht miteinbezogen...(müssen??)
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Features: 9
This is one of my wife's guitars. She bought it a few weeks ago.
It took some time to figure out Gibsons instructions on interpreting the serial number but if I understand them right this guitar was build in 1996 and Gibson stopped the production of this model in 1999. Its A solid body guitar in three tone sunburst (Mohave). Body and neck are mahogany (body with maple top), fretboard is made of rosewood with dot inlays. The headstock is standard Gibson tulipshape provided with Gibson de luxe Klusontuners. The bridge looks like a Fender bridge with seperate saddles. It's string thru body style. It has 2 minihumbuckers (same as Gibson's Firebird). It's featured with 2 controls, volume and a push/pull tonecontrol (coiltab). It has a three-way-selector. The hardware is in gold. My wife had the strapknobs changed in Schaller straplocks of course in gold.
It looks really nice and doesn't has the weight of a Les Paul. Though it's second hand it looks brand new.

Sound: 10
Not amplified it already has a good tone and amplified with my Fender Siverface Twin Reverb it sound's real warm and still bright. With pulled coiltab it sounds a little Fenderlike. This guitar is used by my wife as rhythm guitar in our band and we play rock & Roll, blues, country, country rock. I really appreciate (as leadguitarist) the warm strumming sound of this guitar. My wife used to play on a Cort MGM, also a good guitar but I prefer the sound of this Nighthawk.I tested it for a while and found pretty much diffent sounds in this instrument. The three-way-selector and coiltab gives enough variance in tone. Looking at our music this instrument fits in perfectly.

Action, Fit, & Finish: 9
The set-up is good though I don't know if this is the factory set-up, because it was bought second hand. It's a guitar without any exotic features but build with care and craftmansship.
Furthermore I don't have any remarks on this guitar.

Reliability/Durability: 9
Though it looks a little fragile I think it will survive our gigs (4-6 per year)and rehearsals. We also give a lot of attention to the maintainance of our guitars. The hardware has proven on other Gibson models to be very durable so I think that's not a concern to us.
The finish looks good but only time will tell if it's stays in place.
As I told earlier the strap buttons were changed into Schaller straplocks (the button on the top shoulder of the guitar stands in an odd angle). Can't really tell if we can depend on it. My wife just bought it couple of weeks ago.
Though we always play with a backup I think with this guitar my wife can do without it.

Customer Support: N/A
Never dealt with Gibson and hope I won't have to.

Overall Rating: 9
At our home we have several pieces of equipment, guitars(Music Man Silhouette, Cort MGM, Ibanez Strat, EKO semiacustic, Squier Bullit, Morris dreadnaught, Ibanez dreadnaught), amps (Fender, Trace Elliot, Peavey)etc.
If it was stolen or lost I'm pretty sure my wife would buy another Gibson Nighthawk if she can find one. Me and also my wife love the tone of this guitar it's bit between Gibson and Fender really nice.
My wife is a Gibson fan and always loved the fatter Gibson sound guitars. When the opportunity was there to buy this reletively cheap guitar she didn,t hesitate.We've compared it with a lot of guitars (Fender Telecaster, Blade Telecaster, Cort MGM,) but it fitted in best. Though I'm more attracted to Stratlike guitars I must admit that this Nighthawk has the best of two worlds.

Submitted by Jack Jacobson at 10/27/2000 03:39

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Herzlichen Gruß
vom Broadcaster
und nich auch von seim Wife ;-)

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