Archtop Guitar History
Jun 4, 2009 archtop guitars
The First Archtop Guitars
Orville Gibson was building archtop guitars in the U.S. by the end of 19th Century. He believed that unstressed wood had superior vibration characteristics. Therefore, Gibson carved the archtop guitar tops and sides from solid blocks of wood. This technique, while expensive continues in some archtop guitar models even today, as it [...]
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