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TIL that the original version of Les Paul guitar nicknamed "the Log" was crafted in an Epiphone factory. Les Paul then approached Gibson but got rejected calling the prototype, "broomstick with a pickup. " It would take a decade before Gibson finally accepts the idea.

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