MapleManiac Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Crazy.....genius....it's such a fine line..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 ...and still driving us there! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I think I'll look for a biography... Sounds like an interesting story.... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Uhhh, you do know that Wikipedia is open source. Not exactly the most reliable stuff out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 . Disturbed. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sboiir Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Crazy....probably. Albert Einstein crazy?..... Probably. They say the border between genius and nuts is less than a hair. Thank you for your Gibson creation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
struma6 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Nice to know I'm in good company... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MapleManiac Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Uhhh, you do know that Wikipedia is open source. Not exactly the most reliable stuff out there. I found a better bio. It also notes that he likely suffered from some type of mental illness. http://www.siminoff.net/pages/gibson_background.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Don't anyone come and suggest Orville was crazy, , , he seems to have been a lefty, but that's something else. Okay, thinking twice - who wouldn't get a bit disturbed after years committed to A/B'ing mandolins. . . . ----------------------------------------------------------------Orville about to levitate - Do we see a D-major. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchristo Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 crazy or not, Im glad he was around to create history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 crazy or not, Im glad he was around to create history He can't be crazy... look how nice he writes his name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 There are more detailed biographies out there. He was a luthiery genius, but not a businessman. I think he kind of got slickered by those 'three other investors'. While he may still have died a wealthy man, I don't think he was much for going to the office every day. A man like that would just as soon have his desk covered with wood shavings. btw: This, recently colorized, pic is correctly oriented. It would appear Orville was a Lefty. And you know what they say about lefties? They are the only ones in their right mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Roger Siminoff seems to have done about as much research on Gibson as anyone. > > > The Siminoff Orville Gibson Bio Page < < < The way I read it, Orville Gibson was suffering from some chronic disease. The hospital where he was being treated was a general hospital, which now-a-days is a mental hospital. This does not mean he was or was not suffering from a mental disease. More than one 'bio' on the 'net cites his being treated for a mental illness, probably erroneously. He died from Endocarditis, a chronic heart disease, for which he was probably being treated. btw, in days gone past an 'asylum' was a synonym for 'hospital' with no indication of specialty. Technically, it still is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Don't anyone come and suggest Orville was crazy, , , he seems to have been a lefty, but that's something else. Okay, thinking twice - who wouldn't get a bit disturbed after years committed to A/B'ing mandolins. . . . ----------------------------------------------------------------Orville about to levitate - Do we see a D-major. . . Maybe the pic is flipped.... didn't that happen to the only documented photo of Billy The Kid? For YEARS it was thought that Billy was a lefty 'til someone noticed that the pic was flipped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Maybe the pic is flipped.... I read somewhere it has been checked. The article mentioned the hairstyle and the way the jacket was buttoned. I don't know, but if we shall do a Sherlock on this, other pictures will show the hair-parting from right to left also. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------Then take look at this print. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only thing is that it is a contemporary work, which could be seen as a pastiche. The artist Drew Christie is alive and kicking and seems to have gotten Orville mirrored. ----------------------------------------------------------Same with the next. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A proud and intense Orville - but notice the buttonholes, , , , , , mirrored. -----------------------------Finally in loud clown galla – having an inner laugh over this discussion ---------------------------------------------------------Left right left right abolished - who cares when the music begins. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The Siminoff site covers this. An examination of the buttons on the coat and the part in his hair compared to standard male attire and an extant known-to-be unflipped photo says the colorized tin type, as presented here is oriented correctly. The tin type, the original tin type is by it's very nature flipped. And, yes, the same happened with Billy the Kidd and Jesse James. IT's due to the nature of tin type photography. Tin types create a positive, mirrored image. Film photography produces a negative, mirrored image. When the negative is printed, by shining light through the negative, onto photo paper, it is printed in the positive (creating a negative of the negative) and mirrored yet again, thereby un-mirroring it. Cool hunh? Now you know why you need algebra in your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 When I - still carrying a Sherlock Holmes hat – magnifies the photo and in the same move snap it negative, it's as if the strings are thicker towards the lower periphery of the sound hole, which suggests that Mr. Gibson before this session casually grabbed a right-handed guitar and simply turned it upside down for the show. Could explain the not quite clean D-fingerposition also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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