matsickma
Senior Member
And Guild being a company of exceptions...
M started out as smaller archtop like M75 Aristocrat to compete with the newly released Les Paul. So M may have referenced Minature. That nomenclature made sense up until 1972/1973 when the solid body M-75 came out. Guild could have redesignated the model to a S75 but didn't change and continued on its M75 lineage. With the double cutaway M-80 they essentially had two solidbody exceptions to the rule. By the early 80's the S25, 250 and 275 were released as Solid body guitars along with the redesigned M80 solid body.
Intererestingly by the mid 80 Guild released the solidbody Bluesbird without any model number. And they also issued the chambered Nightbird and Nightingale without a model number. By the late 80's early 90's they dropped the Nightbird and Nightingale names and added the X2000 and X3000 model numbers.
So their is no universal numbering rules. Each decade has its own system of model numbers and guitar names.
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M started out as smaller archtop like M75 Aristocrat to compete with the newly released Les Paul. So M may have referenced Minature. That nomenclature made sense up until 1972/1973 when the solid body M-75 came out. Guild could have redesignated the model to a S75 but didn't change and continued on its M75 lineage. With the double cutaway M-80 they essentially had two solidbody exceptions to the rule. By the early 80's the S25, 250 and 275 were released as Solid body guitars along with the redesigned M80 solid body.
Intererestingly by the mid 80 Guild released the solidbody Bluesbird without any model number. And they also issued the chambered Nightbird and Nightingale without a model number. By the late 80's early 90's they dropped the Nightbird and Nightingale names and added the X2000 and X3000 model numbers.
So their is no universal numbering rules. Each decade has its own system of model numbers and guitar names.
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