What are these guitars really for? #guitar #vintage
#guitars #guitar #vintage
Originally posted by UCCJ56k8nBeqWLoxNa6DToAQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URwNgYqSY1w
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my fave kind of guitar im hooked on jazz sound
This explanation is incomplete. Prior to amplification, growing jazz bands needed more volume for harmonic content than the then-standard banjo could provide. So Gibson and other makers began providing carved maple archtop guitars. They were louder than banjos, and their treble-forward sound characteristics allowed them to cut through and be heard. Once amplification began to become common, it was found that these carved solid top guitars were prone to feedback. So laminate guitars began to appear, and not long after that the semi-hollow guitars such as the ES335.
Django
what are these pickups?
If you want to play flatwound strings for a very jazzy feeling and tone, these hollow body archtops are the instruments of choice. I tried Les Pauls, ES-335 and even a Strat. It just didn‘t work and didn’t feel right.
You're lucky. You're friends with guitar shop owner who has a plek machone. He can also do set-up work and repairs on your guitars for free almost. All the guitar techs around where I live wants to rip me off, and they ruined my guitars doing repair works
this blows. he never expains what he thinks these were for but the editing on this is soo shitty.
Please, excuse my ignorance guys! Who is the blues man at the end of the vid?
I remember a few years ago when even in Gibson's website they said something like "archtops are beautiful, but semi-hollow are better".
Also country players and some rockers like Bill Haley played an arch top too.
All I want to play on that is jack white and that’s it
Used to be mostly a blues, rock, funk player and always wanted guitars like strats and teles. As someone who still plays some blues and funk occcasionally but most plays jazz. I can't unhear the hollow body sound. It's what I try to get no matter what guitar I play. It's really an addiction, once you fall in love with the archtop sound it's hard to fall out of love with it.
It’s important I think to consider guitars in terms or design rather than their most commonly associated stylistic applications. Is an archtop a “jazz box”? If so, tell that to Ted Nugent, Steve Howe, or Merle Travis. Is a nylon string a “classical guitar”? If so, tell that to Jerry Reed, Earl Klugh, or Willie Nelson. Is a telecaster a “country guitar”? If so, tell that to Albert Collins, Ed Bickert, or Keith Richards.
Steve Howe plays an ES-175. I found a Korean made one for $375 brand new. It’s an Eliphone but so what.
Every time I hear the name "Sister Rosetta Tharpe" I smile from ear to ear.
i think of chuck berry when i see an archtop
Some seem confused about where large archtops came from. As jazz moved on from trad to big band, the banjo was replaced by the guitar. Big bands where loud, these big powerful guitar where developed so they could be heard. Big band rhythm players had these large guitar with thick strings and high action so in the end amplification was the obvious next step. Unsurprisingly, the first guitar pickups were added to these big jazz boxes. This made them loud enough for single note lines to be heard, and then people like Charlie Christian changed everyones idea of what a guitar could do.
run one thru a Marshall. THAT'S what they're about!
Brushy One String didn't care that much. Chicken in the Corn… Chicken in the Corn….
I've had mostly all archtops (I'm 74). I sold my Telecaster originally because I didn't like the longer scale. I really like the sound and the looks of archtops. I do like the smaller bouts these days.
I love the classic look of arch top electrics. And one of my favourite early rock heroes is Ted Nugent–who is one of the few heavy rock players who used a hollow body electric. And of course Chuck Berry who used one too (later switching to a semi-hollow). Those guitars may say jazz to many but they say rock n roll to me. (I do enjoy jazz though too!)
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I always imagine Sister Rosetta Thorpe playing an sg though
I immediately think junk
Roundabout, YES, live version, thats what i think of