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| | I have to admit I have a weakness for the good old-fashioned archtop "jazz" guitar - the ones they used in the 1930s big bands. Today they it's almost impossible to get hold on a new one without shelling out some serious money for a hand-built top-of-the range guitar, and at Ebay even the lousiest used instruments tend to fetch high prices. All is not lost though. The special French Selmer-Maccaferri variant made famous by Django Reinhardt is still relatively easy to find. Also at least one manufacturer still has a true full-acoustic elecric archtop to offer - that is a guitar designed to work both as an acoustic and an electric. Take one of these and remove the pickup (just four or six screws), and you have a true acoustic archtop the way they used to make them.
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