Orville Gibson
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United StatesLived 1856 to 1918 · aged 62Fame50.2
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Orville H. Gibson was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
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![In this 1908 advertisement, Gibson aggressively promoted the idea that his mandolins represented progress. It disparaged the older round-back mandolins as "potato bugs", swept into the dead sea by the "new era broom".[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Mr_Potato_Bug_from_Cadaenza_Vol._15%2C_no._3_page2.jpg/1280px-Mr_Potato_Bug_from_Cadaenza_Vol._15%2C_no._3_page2.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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Lived 1856 to 1918 · aged 62
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