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The Hummingbird was originally designed to be a clone of a Martin dread with a Gibson logo. Ted McCarty brought a Martin into the factory, dropped it on Chief Engineer's Larry Aller's desk and told him to copy it. The first result was the Epiphone Frontier. The second was the HB. That is why they sound so different from their slope shoulder kin.
As far as substitutes, I take what the words on the old banner guitars said as the Gospel - "Only a Gibson is Good Enough." Then again, I play a 1956 SJ and 1960 J-200 so I guess you could say I am a bit biased.
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"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks." John Lee Hooker
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