Archtop Jazz Guitars
April 14th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Archtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top side and frequently the back of the instrument are carved from a solid housing in a curved instead of a flat shape. The typical archtop guitar has a large, deep, hollow or semi-hollow body whose form is much like that of a mandolin or violin house instruments.
Today, most archtop guitars are fitted with magnetic pickups and are consequently both Acoustic and Electric guitars. F-hole archtop guitars were right away adopted upon their release by both jazz and country musicians and have continued especially popular in jazz music, generally with flatwound strings, because of their thicker strings add tone.
The archtop guitar has received several other names: jazz guitar, jazzboxe, cello guitar, and plectrum guitar spring to mind and should be the same thing. It is comparatively modern instrument and its birth is linked with the names of Orville Gibson and Lloyd Loar.
One problem with archtop hollow-bodied guitars is that when played through an amplifier they tend to generate feedback. However the development of the semi-hollow archtop guitar made feedback less of an issue.
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