guitar historian. “[They] possess a sound of their own, epitomised by a power and projection unsurpassed by any other archtop acoustic.” “You’ll not be playing second fiddle to anyone with ...

A Gibson Style O archtop acoustic guitar – played and owned by Eric Clapton and Goerge Harrison – has gone up for sale on Reverb, but isn’t likely to stay there long. Guitars this old are ...

Until founding his company, Ken Parker Archtops, in 2003, Parker had been known for his electric guitars, namely the Parker Fly model. Why shift focus to acoustic archtop designs? As Parker tells ...

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What made his archtop guitars so sought after were their dynamic range and a broad tonal color. At a time when acoustic guitars were losing out to electric and mass-produced ones, D'Aquisto tried ...

We think of an organic, acoustic earthiness that comes alive when played through a guitar amp. There is an almost piano-esque ... hollowbody catalogue and come up trumps with a top-quality archtop for ...

When she was 7, she picked up a nylon-string acoustic guitar for the first time and ... That’s why she carves and assembles one-of-a-kind custom archtop guitars and mandolins at her Forestville ...

To honor the centennial, Chinery commissioned 21 master luthiers to craft 22 blue archtop guitars. All are on display at the National Museum of American History through October 1. Hokey?

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