Those maple Hummingbirds are rare birds, indeed. Steve Goodman played one.
The story behind them is that the Hummingbird and the Dove models came out at the same time, but the Hummingbird was a hit with the guitar-buying public while the Dove was not. So in the finish department Gibson converted some of the surplus Doves they’d built into Hummingbirds.
It was a good way to use up some of the Doves they had built that weren’t going to be sold otherwise.
Wade Hampton Miller
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