Gretsch originally used its new trestle bracing from around 1958 to 1962 on many of its hollowbody models, including the Country Gent, the 6120, and the Tennessean, as well as the Country Club and the White Falcon. The result was a guitar where the top and back vibrated more sympathetically with each other, helping to cut feedback and enhance sustain. The two "legs" of each trestle connected to the back of the body, which meant the pair of trestles provided four curved, solid vertical posts that joined the top to the back. Now, it began to add a "trestle," a sort of wide bridge-shape wooden section, to each of the rails. The company was already gluing to the underneath of hollowbody tops a parallel pair of wooden rails to secure the pickups. Gretsch followed his advice and installed what it called truss bracing, which has since become better known as trestle bracing.
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