On December 7, 2007, Gibson will change the guitar world forever. Again. True to the spirit of innovation that inspired Gibson to invent the legendary Tune-o-matic bridge, the powerful humbucker, and the revolutionary Digital Les Paul, Gibson proudly presents the Gibson Robot Guitar—the world’s first guitar with robotic technology. Since the dawn of the instrument, musicians have come to accept the guitar’s imperfections and lack of tonal precision as necessary evils. Onstage and off, guitarists have fought to stay in tune. Every music lover and performer has had to suffer through the show-halting, mood-killing atonal droning of a loudly amped guitar being brought into tune. And in the studio, or at home, imprecise intonation throws the guitar in and out of tune, up and down the neck, as the instrument requires tweaking with each season and at times with each string change.

Baldwin Custom House continues to change the face of the piano industry through its focus on innovative and creative hand-built, limited edition designs. The company has created the “Exotic Collection” with wild designs and customized paints. Each piano boasts its own dramatic, exotic, fun or elegant custom paint job that exquisitely showcases the true artistic nature of the Baldwin Custom House. From a striking striped zebra print to a whimsical abalone white grand, to a tied-dyed design with a happy face and one with a Hawaiian style sunset, Baldwin Custom House has created pianos that can serve as works of art in any finely designed home or as a stylized gift to fit any personality. With the launch of the Exotic Collection, Baldwin is demonstrating the future of piano design with the highest level of craftsmanship and unique custom models partnered with whimsical fun and inspiration from some of the world’s most creative artists and customizers.

Gibson Custom Shop is proud to announce the release of the Dave Grohl Inspired By guitar—the DG-335. Beginning Thursday, October 4, the guitar—modeled after Grohl’s much-loved Gibson Trini Lopez signature model—will be available to Foo Fighters fans and guitarists everywhere. A fitting tribute to Grohl, this Gibson Inspired By model combines the bedrock authenticity of tradition with the power and passion of innovation. The DG-335 not only provides guitarists with the chance to channel the rock prowess of the Foo Fighters’ versatile frontman, but it also has the tone, performance, and style to be one of the most popular Inspired By models of all time.

In the hands of everyone from Maybelle Carter to Big Bill Broonzy, Elvis Presley to Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan to John Lennon, Gibson acoustic guitars have resided front of stage for more than a century of popular music. Although they’ve always been versatile instruments, in the heyday of the Kalamazoo- and Nashville-made flat-tops the Gibson emblem was most notably seen on guitars like the big SJ-200 Super Jumbos, J-185 Jumbos, and J-45 round-shoulder dreadnoughts that pounded out the rhythm for countless bluegrass and country artists. Today, flat-tops handcrafted in Gibson’s Bozeman, Montana, workshop are acclaimed for their unparalleled versatility, and are proving themselves superior in all walks of music, from flat picking to fingerstyle to strum-and-jangle pop stylings

Whenever John Lennon played a Gibson, it became more than a guitar. It transformed into a powerful instrument of change. Whether issuing a desperate cry for "Help!" with his Gibson J-160E acoustic (a guitar he originally nicked from George Harrison), inciting political activism in "Revolution" on his prized Epiphone E230TD Casino (a guitar famously employed during the rooftop session of the Beatles' Apple headquarters), or during one of his last public appearances, at which he played his customized Gibson Les Paul Junior, Lennon's choice of guitars were an essential extension of his unique personality and creativity.

Gibson's legendary J-200 acoustic has long been associated with the singing cowboys of the '40s and '50s, but in recent decades the instrument's most prominent player has been incomparable singing cowgirl Emmylou Harris. From her career beginnings in the mid-'70s, Harris has favored the J-200, calling the guitar "a thing of beauty." In late 2002, in the form of the L-200, Gibson designed the Emmylou Harris Signature version of the J-200.

Legendary mandolinist Sam Bush knew right away he had something special on his hands when he got his ’37 Gibson F-5 back in 1973. Previously owned by bluegrass veteran Norman Blake, the mandolin was distinguished by its larger neck, wider fingerboard, and broader spacing between the string-pairs. Two decades later Bush began talks with Gibson to produce a model based on his beloved instrument. The result—the Sam Bush Signature Mandolin—went into production in 2000. It has since earned a reputation as one of the finest instruments of its kind.