{"id":804,"date":"2010-01-22T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2010-01-22T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:48:31","slug":"vintage-guitar-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"vintage guitar strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a set of antique Gibson guitar strings.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no date on the box.  Thinking about how to figure out the date, I don&#8217;t ever remember Gibson strings at the guitar store since I started playing in the late 1970s.  (Long time!) The graphics on the box suggest a time between 1935 and 1965.  The text on the box says that they make strings for guitar, steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and electric bass.  The newest of these instruments is electric bass, which didn&#8217;t become popular until the 1950s.  <\/p>\n<p>So 1955-1965.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lucas_gonze\/sets\/72157623262670778\/\">I posted these photos on Flickr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lucas_gonze\/4295212677\/\" title=\"antique box of Gibson guitar strings by lucas, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2795\/4295212677_e9f0809b3d.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"antique box of Gibson guitar strings\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lucas_gonze\/4295213491\/\" title=\"antique box of Gibson guitar strings by lucas, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2689\/4295213491_c921b5f8db_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"antique box of Gibson guitar strings\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lucas_gonze\/4295960194\/\" title=\"high E antique guitar string by lucas, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2760\/4295960194_69fb6e3a4f_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"high E antique guitar string\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lucas_gonze\/4295214965\/\" title=\"blurred guitar strings by lucas, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4295214965_c3c674dc86.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"blurred guitar strings\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>They were a gift from the fine albeit curmudgeonly mandolinist Tom Marion.  Thanks, Tom!<\/p>\n<p id=\"cc_license\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" title=\"Click this link to find out details of the Creative Commons license associated with this image.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.gif\" alt=\"There is a Creative Commons license attached to this image.\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"ccIcn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/deed.en\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/cc_icon_attribution.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Attribution\" title=\"Attribution\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/g\/images\/cc_icon_sharealike.gif\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Share Alike\" title=\"Share Alike\"><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a set of antique Gibson guitar strings. There&#8217;s no date on the box. Thinking about how to figure out the date, I don&#8217;t ever remember Gibson strings at the guitar store since I started playing in the late 1970s. (Long time!) The graphics on the box suggest a time between 1935 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}