In guitars, there's D'Aquisto, and the last one he ever made goes on sale May 30 at Christie's. ... What made his archtop guitars so sought after were their dynamic range and a broad tonal color.

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 ...

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 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.

Archtop guitars, which are considered pretty niche, are traditionally much larger than those Wells makes. But Wells’ specialty is creating a smaller guitar without “robbing its voice and sound.

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 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 ...

Along with our pictured Master 400 – Stromberg’s flagship acoustic archtop – there is also the Master 300 (£6,999), and both are very limited. As this year progresses we’ll also see the ...