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NEW PAGE: Gibson Trini Lopez Standard

This page has been long in the making because it involved a lot of investigation and pixel-peeping. The Trini Lopez that Noel has always been associated with actually belongs to Andy Bell, who still plays it in RIDE. However, Noel owns a Trini too, and it has been around since 2005, mainly played by Gem Archer. The page covers both guitars with plenty of background history and geeky info.
Enjoy!

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I’ve always had a soft spot for the Trini Lopez Standard, which might be my personal favourite among all the semi-hollow guitars. It is basically an ES-335 with three distinguishing features: diamond-shaped f-holes, split-diamond fretboard inlays, and a peculiar Fender-style (or rather, Gibson Firebird-style) headstock with six in-line tuners.

Trini Lopez was a mainstream pop singer and guitarist in the early ’60s, but this lovely 335 variant stayed quite low-key in the following decades until a guy named Dave Grohl popularized the model as his go-to electric guitar…