An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with...

three most common types are the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the archtop mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin. The round-backed version has a deep...

include the flat top guitar (typically with a large sound hole) or the archtop guitar, which is sometimes called a "jazz guitar". The tone of an acoustic...

1950s, Epiphone produced a range of both acoustic and (later) electrified archtop guitars that rivalled those produced by Gibson and were the instruments...

guitar or electric guitar. Traditionally, jazz electric guitarists use an archtop with a relatively broad hollow sound-box, violin-style f-holes, a "floating...

are Gibson's top-of-the-line carved archtop instruments. Since the 1930s there have been several other 17" archtops designed by Gibson, including variations...

credited with creating the archtop guitar. The 20th-century American luthiers John D'Angelico and Jimmy D'Aquisto made archtop guitars. Lloyd Loar worked...

manufacturing a custom string for Breau's high A. Seven-string semi-acoustic archtop guitars were used by jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt after he began exploring...

guitar is a type of guitar body model which has a flat top (as opposed to archtop). The term "flat top" is usually used to refer to the most popular type...

The Gibson ES-125 is an archtop, hollow body electric guitar model that was produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Introduced in 1941 as the successor...

higher notes. Most guitars of the day, with the exception of Gibson's L-5 archtop jazz guitars, had necks joined at the 12th fret, half the scale length...

The Gibson L-7C is an archtop acoustic guitar and one of the few archtop guitars still in production from major makers without an electric pickup. Gibson...

The Bronx, New York) is an American luthier of archtop jazz guitars. In 1968, he made his first archtop guitar in New Jersey and has handcrafted nearly...

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Semi-acoustic guitars may have a fully hollow body, making them essentially archtop acoustics with the pickups permanently mounted into the sound board, such...

brands. In 1957, president Sydney Katz introduced the Gold "K" line of archtop and solid body electric guitars to compete with major manufacturers like...

and electrification. The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers. The first electrically...

mandolins; F-holes in instruments from the violin family, archtop mandolins and in archtop guitars; C-holes in viola da gambas and occasionally double-basses...

Ken Parker is an American luthier known for his unique archtop guitars and the Parker Fly electric guitar which came out in 1993. He is the founder of...

in Manhattan) was a luthier from New York City, noted for his handmade archtop guitars and mandolins. He founded the D'Angelico Guitars company, where...

called a flat top guitar, to distinguish it from the more specialized archtop guitar and other variations. The standard tuning for an acoustic guitar...

Kalamazoo, Michigan, to make mandolin-family instruments. Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins...

appreciated globally for this contribution. The second instrument is a modified archtop Hawaiian guitar, created by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and is the instrument most...

The Gibson ES-100 is an archtop, hollow body electric guitar produced from 1937 to 1941 by Gibson. It was re-introduced as the Gibson ES-125 in 1946....

top-of-the-range archtop. The Congress, a non-cutaway archtop guitar. Early models had a 12th fret neck join. The President: a family of mid-range archtops, with...

on plectrum banjo in its conventional tunings. With development of the archtop and electric guitar, the tenor banjo largely disappeared from jazz and...

solid spruce archtop, solid maple back and sides Neck Mahogany Fretboard Rosewood with pearl dot inlays Hardware Bridge Ebony archtop-style bridge adjustable...

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Corporation in the early 20th century. The L-1 model was introduced first as an archtop (1902), and later as a flat top in 1926. The model is famously associated...

violas with his staff at his workshop. He also created 30 unique, high-end archtop guitars, one of which, the Wilkanowski Airway W-4, was famously owned by...