Replete with a masterful luthier's touches.

The Gibson Dove Modern Classic Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar is a masterpiece to be savored by the ear and the eye. Features curly maple back and sides with a solid Sitka spruce top, bound fingerboard with pearl parallelogram markers, 25-1/2" scale, handmade dove-wing bridge with mother-of-pearl inlays, and a distinctive engraved pickguard with inlaid mother-of-pearl dove. Natural finish top with warm antique cherry finish on back, sides, and neck. L.R. Baggs transducer with soundhole mounted volume control. Nickel hardware. Gibson includes a deluxe hardshell guitar case with the Modern Classic Dove guitar.

Gibson Dove Modern Classic Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar Features:

• Grover Rotomatic Tuners
• Bone nut and Tusq saddle
• "Big Sky" radiused fingerboard edge
• Industry's finest electronics
• Premium hardshell case
• Distinctive labels

Gibson Dove Modern Classic Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar Includes:

• Gibson deluxe hardshell case

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Gibson Dove Modern Classic Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar Specifications:

• Curly maple back and sides
• Solid Sitka spruce top
• Bound fingerboard with pearl parallelogram markers
• 25-1/2" scale
• Handmade dove-wing bridge
• Mother-of-pearl inlays
• Distinctive engraved pickguard with inlaid mother-of-pearl dove
• L.R. Baggs transducer with soundhole mounted volume control
• Gibson hardshell case

Gibson Dove Modern Classic Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar

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Vintage Dove

Posted by Danville Rob from Danville, CA on Aug 20, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: 45 years

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, C&W, Blues & Much More

I first played a Hummingbird back in the early 60's when I was working in a music store... love at first strum.... couldn't afford it since I was a working musician using a Fender Jaguar and Jazz Bass...Fast forward to late 70's... wife bought me a Dove... for C&W and blues a superior guitar to the Hummingbird. My '79 Kalamazoo-Made Dove is the best guitar I've ever played...bar none! Deep rich tones... and a "boomer"... It's Dark-Dark Sunburst...almost Black... VERY pretty!

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Disappointed

Posted by Quention Nash from Woodbury, Tennessee on Dec 26, 2008

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Alternative, Folk

I wanted so bad to like this guitar. I really did. I tested it out at the Gibson Showcase in Nashville. It's one of the most beautiful instruments I've ever seen, action is pretty good, and feels pretty comfortable. BUT... the sound is mediocre at best. It sounded weak for the size, almost empty. More mud than musical. I compared it to my Martin and an Epiphone Masterbuilt with nylon strings. It loss both times. It's got no brightness at all. Maybe it would be good for rhythm with an electric playing over it, but honestly I would prefer something brighter.

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Well Worth It

Posted by Fingers from Annapolis, MD on Dec 24, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues to Bluegrass

The Gibson Dove is the only acoustic guitar I have bought twice, and honestly, I like thie one better than the 70's Dove I owned. From blues to bluegrass the tone, action, and resonation is beyond reproach. When I bought this, the competition was a Taylor 814CE,A Gibson SJ200, and a Hummingbird. The Dove delivers the highs needed for bluegrass and the bottoms for blues. I also own a Guild D40 that has the action, but not the highs og the Dove. You won't need another acoustic if you shell out the money for a real Dove.

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The Answer to Questions I Hadn't Thought To Ask

Posted by Petey B from Northeastern Massachusettes on Mar 3, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Aspiring artist

Reviewer's Play Style: Folk, Blues, Country, Rock

Personally I prefer jumbos to dreadnaughts; I also thought that THAT sound professionals got was all in the electronic massage they gave their signal. I tried Martins and Ovations, both more and less expensive, but when I picked up the Gibson Dove it was love at first strum. There was THAT sound; something that should probably be miked rather than plugged into an amp. The other big selling point for me, and I didn't realize it immediately, is this guitar has a tangible personality to it that I didn't find in the others. You can push it and it always rises to the occasion (while staying in tune better than I thought possible. Bottom line: you could pay twice as much and not get half the guitar that the Gibson Dove is. Do NOT try the Dove out if you can't afford it, you'll be broken hearted until you can. Oh yeah, and jumbos aren't that great after all.

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Features worth 10 times the Epiphone Dove price

Posted by The World of URTH from Saint Louis, MO on Jul 1, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Songwriter, artist, producer & musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Progressive Folk Rock

That's right. I own both a Gibson Dove and an Epiphone Dove. I bought my first Gibson Dove in 1968 and traded it for a 1908 Gibson harpguitar 10 years ago. That's the only thing I ever would have traded it for. I always missed it and got myself an Epiphone Dove and it brought back all the memories ... yet I was determined to find out for myself why the Gibson model goes for so much more than the Epiphone & the best way to do that was to play them side by side. Not only is the difference to be found in the details but also can be heard in the sound of each. The Gibson has an amazing low end and warmth to it and has much better projection; like a professional singer that sings from the diaphragm that hardly needs a microphone to be heard. Gibson has thoughtfully included quality active electronics so I don't have to wish they had until I take it to a shop and have it done as I had with my 1968 Dove. I am so glad I own this and believe it or not I still love the Epiphone Dove for how great it sounds -- as long as the Gibson isn't nearby and I still have to hand it to Epiphone for offering an affordable model that sounds and plays so good but the Gibson is worth the price. There were rumors that the new ones don't measure up to the old ones but don't believe it. Gibson Dove has my vote for King of the Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitars. Where do I vote?

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