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  2. Ken Parker (guitar maker) - Wikipedia

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    Parker sold his company in 2004. A few years later, he started designing archtop guitars. His archtop designs incorporate an adjustable neck that mounts to the guitar via a turnbuckle mechanism that allows the action to be adjusted without affecting the tuning, a unique tailpiece and non-traditional sound holes. As of 2015 Parker has a shop in ...

  3. Guild Guitar Company - Wikipedia

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    These kits were near-complete production guitars that only needed finishing and final assembly before being sent to retailers. Production in Corona was short-lived, however, as Fender acquired the assets of Washington-based Tacoma Guitar Company in 2004, and moved all American Guild acoustic guitar production to Tacoma, Washington and ...

  4. Archtop guitar - Wikipedia

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    An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players. Typically, an archtop guitar has: Six strings; An arched top and back, not a flat top and back; A hollow body; Moveable adjustable bridge

  5. Gibson L-4 - Wikipedia

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    The L-4 was first introduced in 1911 as an acoustic rhythm guitar with an oval sound hole and 12 frets to the neck; [1] it was used by Eddie Lang, who also played an L-5. In 1928, Gibson redesigned the guitar, swapping out the oval soundhole for a round one, extending the neck to 14 frets and cantilevering the end of the fretboard over the top ...

  6. Arch top guitar - Wikipedia

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  7. Talk:Archtop guitar - Wikipedia

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    This article states that Gibson himself invented archtop guitars, and that Gibson had been making archtop mandolins for a while, whereas the article on Lloyd Loar states that Loar invented at least the archtop mandolin, and possibly the archtop guitar: "Loar worked for Gibson from 1919 to 1924. His contributions include building the instrument ...

  8. Guitar bracing - Wikipedia

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    Smallman combines this with heavier, laminated back and sides with a frame. Smallman's guitars are used by John Williams. Smallman's design was inspired by research by Torres who made a guitar with a papier mâché back and sides to show that the soundboard was the most important factor in guitar sound projection. Smallman also uses two 45 ...

  9. Selmer guitar - Wikipedia

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    Before the advent of amplification, the Selmer guitar appealed to European players the way archtop guitars did in America: it was loud enough to hear over other instruments in a band. The "petite bouche" model has an especially loud and cutting voice, and remains the design preferred by lead players in Django-style bands, while the accompanying ...

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