One of the only known photographs of iconic Delta blues pioneer Robert Johnson shows him with a Gibson L-1 guitar. And the folk-revival of the 1950s and 1960s wouldn't have sounded quite so mellow ...

The teenager is here to hone down her options to buy an acoustic, and playing the Gibsons upstairs and now the Epiphones, she's discovering her preferences, with a Gibson L-00 standing out so far.