archtop

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archtop (plural archtops)

A style of large steel-stringed guitar having an arched belly, a neck at a slight angle to the body and a fretboard elevated above the soundboard.

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A functionally solid-body electric guitar was designed and built in 1940 by Les Paul from an Epiphone acoustic archtop. Source: Internet

By the early 1990s many small independent luthiers began making archtop guitars. Source: Internet

In acoustic and archtop guitars, wood choices more clearly affect tone. Source: Internet

In the 1990s, there was a resurgence of interest among jazz guitarists in acoustic archtop guitars with floating pickups. Source: Internet

Lloyd Loar of the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co introduced the violin-inspired "F"-shaped hole design now usually associated with archtop guitars, after designing a style of mandolin of the same type. Source: Internet

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