The back, sides and top are made of woods carved very thin. The soundhole of a Parker archtop, familiar to many as the round hole in the center of an acoustic guitar, is not in the center and not ...

Over the past 80 years this well-travelled archtop has had illustrious owners and featured on landmark recordings from Miles ...

His early guitars cloned Gibson's L-5 but soon developed a unique, often highly ornamented style embodied by his two most famous designs, the Excel and the New Yorker. The new D'Angelico company is ...

Street-smart archtop semi-acousticWhile Godin produces plenty of solidbody electric guitars, it's the company's Multiac and more latterly its 5th Avenue archtop ranges that have really made waves. If ...

“This guitar is 100 percent original and untouched. The frets are original, with virtually no wear, and all the nibs are there.

ARVADA, Colo. — Many consider the archtop guitar — an instrument patterned after violins and cellos eliciting a more mellow sound than a typical flattop guitar — a truly American invention ...

The original Lucille — the guitar King rescued that night in the fire — was an inexpensive, small-bodied Gibson L-30 archtop.

The first archtop was patented in 1898. To honor the centennial, Chinery commissioned 21 master luthiers to craft 22 blue archtop guitars.

The progeny of two classical bassists, Jeffrey Burr was encouraged to study music seriously from a young age, but chose the guitar as his instrument anyway. On the way to Rock Stardom, some Charlie ...