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	VINTAGE NEWS - ARCHTOP GUITARS
		This is a fancy archtop guitar made by Carl Barney at his workshop in Bridgeport, Conn., during his “middle period” for this model.
		Few electric archtop guitars in the history of 20th century design are as beautiful or as compelling as the Cadillac Green version of the Gretsch Country Club.
		This model Guild archtop guitar is no longer made but in its time it was considered a standard of the industry in an all laminated wood, all maple, twin-humbucking pickup, electric archtop jazz instrument.
	www.mandoweb.com /2_Archtop.htm (13808 words)

	Archtop - Custom Handmade Acoustic Guitars Santa Cruz Guitar Company
		The archtop guitar demands both the finest in materials and the ultimate skill in craftsmanship from the guitar maker.
		Our archtops have received high praise from both professional guitarists and other archtop builders.
		As demonstrated in the accompanying photograph, the Santa Cruz archtop is an incredibly striking instrument.
	www.santacruzguitar.com /acousticguitars/details/archtop.html (147 words)

	Archtop guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An archtop guitar is a steel-stringed guitar with a distinctive "arched" belly and a sound particularly suited to blues and jazz.
		The archtop guitar was invented in the 1890's by Orville Gibson, founder of the Gibson Guitar Corporation, who was primarily a mandolin builder and had previously built archtop mandolins.
		Archtop guitars were immediately adopted upon their release by both jazz and country musicians and have remained particularly popular in jazz music, usually using thicker strings (higher gauged round wound and flat wound) than conventional acoustic guitars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archtop_guitar (677 words)

	The Archtop Jazz Guitar by Fernando Alonso Jaen
		Essentially, an archtop jazz guitar is a steel string acoustic guitar, normally electrified, and with a big soundbox reminiscent of cellos.
		The 1970s were even worse: the high volume of popular music in those years made archtop jazz guitars anything but practical, with their tendency to feedback, huge size and old look.
		They are the usual alloy of copper, nickel and zinc; I don't know any archtop guitar maker that has tried something similar to the stainless steel glued frets of the Parker Fly electric guitars, probably due to the technology involved.
	www.acousticfingerstyle.com /ArchtopGuitars.htm (3878 words)

	Sweetwater inSync
		Archtop guitars are steel string instruments, which feature a violin-inspired f-hole design in which the top (and often the back) of the instrument are carved in a curved rather than a flat shape.
		The typical archtop is a hollowbody guitar whose form is much like that of a mandolin or violin family instrument and may be acoustic or electric.
		Archtop guitars were immediately adopted by jazz and country musicians and have remained particularly popular in jazz music, usually using thicker strings (higher gauged round wound and flat wound) than acoustic guitars.
	www.sweetwater.com /insync/word.php?find=archtopguitar (336 words)

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