Thread: Vintage Archtop
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Old 12-15-2016, 04:58 PM
Steve DeRosa Steve DeRosa is offline
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Body size/slotted head/12-fret neck/ladder bracing suggest to me that this was made by a firm that dealt primarily in student-grade violin-family instruments, as well as cheap flattop guitars - the internal construction (including the incongruous soundpost) exhibits a lack of real first-hand knowledge of archtop guitar construction methods, and I'm also thinking that the laminated top/back plates may well have been adapted from an existing 1/2 - 3/4-size cello mold and trimmed to fit. That said - and of course without the requisite hands-on examination - IMO you might also be looking at an early (pre-1955) post-war Middle/East-European (rather than French/Italian) instrument, built to a price to satisfy local demand and never intended for widespread distribution...
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