I love the tone of my old, cheap archtop, my ‘30’s Kalamazoo KG-31. When you bang on the strings with archtop force, the strings pop with a strong fundamental and short decay that sounds as round and rich as plucking a nylon string.
I love stacking those little pearls of sound into chords and runs. Makes me wonder why folks want to hide within a cloud of harmonic overtones and sustain
