A Vintage Archtop Guitar is something which the guitar collector cherish to have in their collection.

An archtop guitar is a steel-stringed acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with blues and jazz players.

Typically, a archtop vintage guitar has:

• F-holes similar to members of the violin family.
• Humbucker pickups.

The archtop guitar was invented as late as in the 1890s by Orville Gibson, founder of the Gibson Guitar Corporation, who was primarily a mandolin builder and had previously built archtop mandolins. Because of this late history, you can today find lots of Vintage Archtop Guitars in market.

1922 was the year to be precise, when Lloyd Loar was hired by the Gibson Guitar Company to redesign their instrument line in an effort to counter flagging sales, and in that same year the Gibson L5 was released to his design. The L5 introduced a number of innovations, the most striking being the violin-like f-holes. Although the new instrument models flopped commercially and Loar left Gibson after only a couple of years, Gibson instruments signed by Loar now are among the most prized and celebrated in stringed-instrument history. Perhaps the most revered instrument from this period is the F5 mandolin, but probably the more broadly influential was the L5 guitar, which remains in production to this day.

Archtop guitars were subsequently made by many top American luthiers, notably John D’Angelico of New York and his student Jimmy D’Aquisto, William Wilkanowski, Charles Stromberg and Son in Boston, and by other major manufacturers, notably Gretsch, Epiphone, and Selmer of Paris. Archtop guitars were particularly adopted by both jazz and country musicians, and in big bands and swing bands.

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