While the violin maker gets most of the acclaim and prestige for turning lumber into musical instruments, you can’t deny the sheer beauty and grandeur of a jazz-style archtop guitar. Much lar… ...

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 ...

Jazz album: “Archtop Avenue - solo guitar” by Ratko Zjaca, released in 2023 on In + Out Records. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About ... Lothar Trampert Jazzthetik Jazz ...

Ken Parker and YoYo, one of his handmade guitars. Some days, when the mood strikes him, Ken Parker will leave his Gloucester, Massachusetts workshop and take his rowboat out into the harbor to ...

The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...

With so much history carried by these guitars that helped shaped music from 1922 Gibson L-5 onwards, it's a good time to take stock with ten of many potential tonal archtop highlights. 1. D-Natural ...

The big-bodied archtop is a notorious powerhouse but its return ... For a guitar brand that stopped making instruments 70 years ago, Stromberg is enjoying quite a revival.

The first archtop was patented in 1898. 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 ...