Cystic Fibrosis Raffle
We are pleased to announce the winners of our Cystic Fibrosis Raffle Draw this year. Congratulations to the holders of the following ticket numbers:
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# 722895
Mr. R Pintley
of Sydney NSW |
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# 3004
Mr. W Busby
of Brisbane QLD |
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# 0416
Mr. P Baines
of Wellington NZ |
On behalf of Cystic Fibrosis NSW, Bluesfest & Gibson Guitars we wish to congratulate this years lucky Winners. This years prizes of three Gibson Les Paul Studio Swamp Ash Guitars w/case, were our the best ever... Gibson have committed to continue their support for Cystic Fibrosis with three more Gibson Guitar Prizes for Bluesfest/Cystic Fibrosis Raffle in 2011
We wish to thank sincerely, all the Festival patrons who supported our Raffle which, when finally tallied, will come in at approx. $30,000.00
A fantastic result, our best to date. Lets all hope that these funds raised at BLUESFEST may HELP FIND A CURE SOON!
To celebrate the Festival's new home gibson has donated
not ONE, not TWO but THREE!
The Les Paul Studio has long enjoyed a reputation as a modern, no-frills guitar for the studio musician. Known for its tremendous harmonic and sonic capabilities, the world’s most desired Les Paul adds another level of versatility with the Swamp Ash Studio. A harder, more uniformly dense wood, swamp ash has huge, open pores with both hard and soft layers within each ring of the tree.
Considered very resonant across the entire frequency spectrum, this unique wood allows the Les Paul Swamp Ash Studio to produce clear bell-like highs, distinct mids and robust lows, resulting in one of the more resounding Les Pauls ever built. The Swamp Ash Studio retains many of the iconic Les Paul’s traditional elements, including a hand-carved top and a neck crafted from a single piece of mahogany, hand-sanded to perfection and given Gibson’s traditional ’50s rounded profile.
Other standard appointments include figured acrylic trapezoid fingerboard inlays, a corian nut, Gibson’s legendary Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece and new quick-connect control pocket assembly. The pickups are a pair of Gibson’s finest: a 490R in the neck position, and a 498T in the bridge position. Together, the pickups deliver all the traditional humbucker crunch expected from a Les Paul. The Les Paul Swamp Ash Studio comes with a standard hardshell case with the Gibson USA silkscreened logo on top.