The Gibson J-160E is one of the first acoustic-electric guitar models produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. One of the main problems with playing an unamplified acoustic guitar is that when playing in live settings, it is often quite difficult to hear.

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  • The Gibson J-160E is one of the first acoustic-electric guitar models produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. One of the main problems with playing an unamplified acoustic guitar is that when playing in live settings, it is often quite difficult to hear. Some guitarists have gotten around the problem by playing their acoustic guitars into a microphone; however, there are several drawbacks to this approach, such as the leaking of other (louder) instruments into the microphone, and restricted movement away from the microphone. Thus, many guitar manufacturers have tried to create acoustic-electric guitars as a solution to this problem. The J-160E was Gibson's second attempt at creating an acoustic-electric guitar (the first being the small-body CF-100E). The basic concept behind the guitar was to fit a single-pickup (and associated electronics) into a normal-size dreadnought acoustic guitar. The J-160E used plywood for most of the guitar's body, and was ladder-braced, whereas other Gibson acoustic models were X-braced. The rosewood fingerboard featured crown inlays, and the guitar featured an adjustable bridge. For amplification, it featured a single-coil pickup (an uncovered P-90 pickup) on the top of the body at the edge of the fingerboard (similar to "floating" pickups on some archtop acoustic guitars), with one volume knob and one tone knob. The J-160E was never particularly notable for its acoustic sound, and when amplified, it sounded more like a hollowbody electric guitar than an amplified acoustic guitar. While the J-160E was not popular with all guitarists, John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles frequently used this model, both onstage and in the studio. Gibson currently produces a standard J-160E and a John Lennon J-160E Peace model, based on the J-160E he used during the Bed-In days of 1969. Epiphone currently produces an "EJ-160E" John Lennon replica signature model that is currently produced in Indonesia, but is a longer scale length, a different color, and of lower quality than the earlier Korean-made Epiphone EJ-160E, but of higher quality than the previous China made ones.
  • J-160E（じぇい・ひゃくろくじゅう・いー）は、ギブソンのアコースティックギターである。 同社のJ-45等と同形のラウンドショルダーと呼ばれるボディのサウンドホールのネック側にシングルコイルのピックアップP-90を取り付けており、後に登場したエレクトリックアコースティックギターとは違う考えで設計され、フルアコースティックギター（フルアコ）の構造となっている。（因みにギブソン社はJ-160Eより前にCF-100EというアコースティックギターにP-90を装備したモデルも発売していた。） ボディトップにボリューム、トーンのノブを取り付けた外見となっている。 アコースティックとしてよりもエレクトリックギターとしての使用を重んじた設計がなされており、ハウリング防止の為、トップ材には合板を使用、ラダー・ブレイシング（力木）を採用している。その結果生音で鳴らした場合、通常のアコースティックギターより音量は小さくなるが、独特なトーンを得られている。 出力ジャックはボディサイドのリア側の斜め下に設置されている。 1950年代に生産が開始され、1960年代末にはダヴ等のようなスクエアショルダータイプのボディの物も登場した。
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  • The Gibson J-160E is one of the first acoustic-electric guitar models produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. One of the main problems with playing an unamplified acoustic guitar is that when playing in live settings, it is often quite difficult to hear.
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  • Gibson J-160E
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