It has an arch, and it has different sonic properties than traditional guitars, which are called flat-top guitars," said Ty Danco of the Archtop Foundation. The foundation shares these guitars ...

We have a specific lane we live in within the guitar playing community. Primarily, we’re known for making steel string, acoustic flat top guitars. Many years ago, there was an attempt at ...

Tony Rice was my first guitar hero. He inspired me and so many others to strive for excellence on the acoustic flat-top, explore new genres and never be afraid to take risks. To discover Rice's ...

Not Dan Crary. The veteran, American, steel-string guitar virtuoso has been researching the history of the instrument and read claims that each historic figure played a cithara, a stringed ...

SOUTHBURY -- Red spruce and curly maple from the Northeast, bubinga from Africa and urundel from South America. These are the woods Carl Barney starts with. Out of them come his acclaimed guitars.

It works much better for fingerpicking than strumming in our experience; fingertips help to soften the top-end and release some of the guitar's inherent sweetness. The supplied D'Addario EJ16 Phosphor ...

And it makes for an especially strong list of candidates when choosing the best Yamaha acoustic guitars, drawing on an especially impressive range of instruments from steel-string flat top to ...

And not just any guitars, but World War II-vintage "Banner Era" Gibson acoustic flat top guitars widely recognized as among the best ever made. Thomas and Portland, Ore., musician Lauren Sheehan ...

Located on Marblehead’s waterfront, Tippin Guitars (tippinguitars.com, 781-631-5749) has been building custom acoustic, flat-top guitars since 1995. With a focus on high-quality wood and custom ...

We bought a flat-top in Steele, Missouri.” (He also said Johnson loved the Kalamazoo archtop.) The KG-14 is thought by some blues enthusiasts to be the guitar that Johnson played during his ...