Just beginning to learn about archtop guitars? Here are some facts you should know before buying your first archtop:
- The guitar as it’s known today dates back to 40 AD, when the Cithara was taken to Hispania from the Romans.
- The most ancient iconographic representation on the guitar is an over 3,000-year-old carving of a bard playing a guitar.
- Archtops are designed in a curve instead of the more common flat style, with magnetic pickups and flat-wound strings.
- Acoustic guitars emit sound using a soundboard, typically a wooden mount on the front of the design.
- Guitars have been made out of mixtures of different woods, and strings made from animal gut.
Looking for an archtop guitar luthier? Fine Archtops hosts a directory of guitar makers who can make your dream custom archtop. Find the list at www.FineArchtops.com.
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