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Originally Posted by EvanB
Violins evolved to the F hole for its more pronounced projection. I don't know if the evolution applies to guitars.
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In the early 1900s there were three parallel approaches to louder guitars:
1. Bigger guitars such as dreadnaughts and jumbos
2. Bigger guitars with violin/viola features such as arch top guitars with f-holes
3. Electric amplifiers
Electric amplifiers won by a wide margin over pure acoustic guitars.
Dreads became mainstream for acoustic performance and jamming. Amplified arch tops have a small market in jazz performance.
Today f-hole arch top guitars are mostly for tone and/or style, and that's OK. There isn't much incentive for much f-hole evolution.
My guitar tech and guitar teacher warned me that those cool looking arch top guitars are fussy to maintain because the wood panels and necks shift out of alignment with the floating parts as the weather changes. Is carbon fibre a solution?
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