-
manufacturer for this
period was
Robert Benedetto.
Interest in
archtops was
revived in the 1990s.
Archtops had long been
expensive instruments, with a
level of...
-
Larson Brothers. The
ideal for
archtops has been
solid pieces of wood
carved into the
right shape. However,
another archtop exists, the top made of laminated...
-
acoustic archtops, the Emperor, Sheraton, Broadway,
Zephyr and
Century together with new
models the Windsor,
Casino and
Sorrento as
electric archtops, the...
- Bienstock,
Richard (5
October 2012). "M**** Appeal: Ken Parker's
Unconventional Archtops".
Guitar Aficionado.
Retrieved 1 May 2015. Bilger,
Burkhard (14 May 2007)...
- Standard:
Collings Archtops come with a
lower bout
width of 16-inch, 17-inch, and 18-inch.
Based on the
earliest American f-hole
archtops of the 1920s, the...
-
Martin also
developed a line of
archtop instruments during the 1930s.
Their design differed from
Gibson and
other archtops in a
variety of respects–the fingerboard...
- instrument. Nowadays, most
archtops are
equipped with
magnetic pickups, and they are
therefore both
acoustic and electric. F-hole
archtop guitars were immediately...
-
archtop instruments.
Since the 1930s
Gibson has
designed several other 17"
archtops,
including some more affordable, less
ornate models. From its introduction...
-
guitar or
electric guitar. Traditionally, jazz
electric guitarists use an
archtop with a
relatively broad hollow sound-box, violin-style f-holes, a "floating...
-
Johnny Shines,
stated that both he and
Johnson used
Kalamazoo archtops. The
Kalamazoo archtops of the time were
models KG-21 and KG-31.
Gibson acquired the...
