The Gibson Elvis Dove is based on a customised 1969 Gibson Dove that was gifted to the King of Rock and Roll by his father, Vernon Presley, and that Elvis played in concert regularly from 1971 until 1975, including during the 1973 satellite-televised Aloha From Hawaii concert. In 1975, Elvis gifted it in mid-performance to an astonished audience member at a concert in Asheville, North Carolina. The Gibson Elvis Dove features a solid Sitka spruce top, solid maple back and sides, and a mahogany neck capped with a rosewood fretboard. It also comes equipped with modern LR Baggs VTC electronics with an under-saddle piezo pickup and soundhole-mounted volume and tone controls, making it stage-ready, right out of the included hardshell case.
Features
- Maple body w/ Sitka Spruce top & Gloss Nitrocellulose finish
- Mahogany neck w/ Round profile, & 25.5" / 647.7mm scale
- Indian Rosewood fretboard w/ 12" radius & Mother of Pearl Parallelograms inlays
- 20 Standard frets
- 1.73" / 43.815mm Bone nut
- Grover Keystone tuning machines
- Rosewood Dove with Mother of Pearl Dove Inlays bridge w/ Bone saddles
- LR Baggs VTC under saddle pickup
- Soundhole Mounted Volume and Tone controls
- Includes Gibson Hardshell