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Originally Posted by Theleman
I dropped ideas going for an Archtop just now, because
1. jazz.be forum suggests when practicing, one could use any guitar - electric, acoustic or even nylon guitars. They said that thin solid bodied electric guitars like strats or teles would be actually easier to hold and practice than huge heavy hollow bodied semi acoustics.
2. None of the guitarists I am listening and trying to learn from seem have used archtops, apart from perhaps Lightnin Hopkins. In his later years he seemed to have used an ES335 for live gigs, otherwise he and most other seemed have used mostly simple acoustics, Dobros, Strats and Teles.
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Jazz can be played on any guitar - I actually prefer my Parker Fly Artist to the Benedetto I used to have. YMMV