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Jazz Guitar Luthiers listed by State (USA)
Archtop guitars are steel-stringed acoustic guitars with a distinctive "arched" belly and a sound particularly suited to blues guitar and jazz. They are also known as jazz-boxes or hollow bodies, although not all hollow body guitars are archtops.
The top (and often the back) of the archtop guitar are carved in a curved rather than a flat shape, and it normally has f-holes. This curve and f-holes are both similar to the violin family, on which they were originally based. Although any true archtop has a rich tone unamplified, most archtop guitars have some sort of pickup/microphone system, and many are intended primarily for this purpose and so may also be considered electric guitars. Most used on modern archtops are humbuckers in bridge and/or neck positions.
The archtop was invented by Lloyd Loar of the Gibson Guitar Corporation after designing a style of mandolin of the same type.
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For information on selecting a guitar for jazz visit the jazz guitar news group ( rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz) has a FAQ with answers to lots of common questions.
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Making An Archtop Guitar By Robert Benedetto. Guitar. Size 8.5x11 inches. 279 pages. Published by Centerstream Publications. (174)
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Guitarmaking: Tradition And Technology By William R. Cumpiano & Jonathan D. Natelson. Guitar Text. 388 pages, 8 x 10.5, softcover. Published by Chronicle Books. (GM10000)
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235 luthier listings as of Aug 25, 2008 - 9:44 PM
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Arizona
McKerrihan Guitars
Glen E. McKerrihan
548 West Jackson Street
Phoenix, AZ 85003
Phone: 602-253-0731
Fax: 602-253-4072
California
Dell'Arte Instruments
10020 Prospect Avenue
Unit AS 25-26
Santee, CA 92071
619 596 7739
619 698 2237 (fax)
Micheal A. Lewis
530 272-4124
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Frank Green - Working Musician
P.O. Box 892
Sierra Madre, CA 91025-892
818-355-5554 (Phone/Fax)
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Info
East Coast Rep: Howard Krim, 732 321 9024
Offers a 7-day course intensive course in archtop guitar construction.
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Kevin has an article published in the August 1997 issue of Just Jazz Guitar about how "Bob Bennedetto"'s "Making an Archtop Guitar" got him started. Pretty interesting.
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Santa Cruz Guitar Company
151 Harvey West Boulevard Suite C
Santa Cruz CA 95060
Tel: 831.425.0999
Fax: 831.425.3604
Colorado
Connecticut
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Florida
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- No known web presence
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Georgia
Robert Benedetto
Benedetto Guitars
0 Mall Terrace
Suite A
Savannah, GA 31406
912.692.1400
912.692.1403 (Fax)
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The Fratello model began as a joint venture between classical guitarmaker
Hawaii
Iowa
Illinois
Schröder Guitar and Amplifier Repair
Timothy Schröder
1455 W Hubbard
Chicago, IL 60062
Tel:312.226.9668
Louisiana
Maryland
Maine
Earnest Musicial Instruments
Joel Eckhaus, Luthier
12 Fairlawn Ave.
S. Portland, ME 04106
207 799-9788
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Tiki King's Ukulele: Brand name database: Earnest
Info
Makes an archtop Tenor guitar as well as other Tenor models.
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Massachusetts
Michigan
Aaron Cowles
Unity Guitars c/o
Aaron's Music Service
115 Main Street
Vicksburg, MI 49097
616-649-3929
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Aaron L. Cowles is the luthier, worked at Gibson in Kalamazoo 1961-1982
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Minnesota
Missouri
Moll Custom Instruments
2304 E. Cardinal
Springfield, MO 65804
1-877-838-7348 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST. Mon through Fri.
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Info
From the Moll Custom Instruments site: This newly re-designed Working Man's Hero is the result of combining CAD-CAM and CNC machining technology, with a strong dose of hand detailing and assembly, to produce a fully American made guitar with uncompromising quality, at an astoundingly affordable price.
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New Hampshire
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- No known web presence
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North Carolina