Archtops??
I got to formally apologise to my luva for falling asleep after sending her to school only to wake up right on time for Friday prayers and missing her presentation along the way... SORRY!!
I stumbled upon 'archtops guitars' whilst reading my current read by Tim Brookes. Apparently, the archtop guitars are like an evolution of the normal conventional guitars we see today; the ones with the sound-hole in the middle. These are also called flat-tops. Anyway, got this from wiki...
Its kinda cool right?
For conventional guitars, the strings pull pack on the bridge and presses on the top of the soundboard. However, if you look at the picture above of the archtop, the strings pass through the bridge and does not end there but end at the tail-piece, that brass piece below. So the sound produced by the guitar is actually caused by the soundboard 'bouncing' rather than vibrating. Apparently Tim Brookes describes playing the archtop as 'dipping in chocolate' rather than playing a guitar. So it must be damn good.. hahaha... would love to try one! (both dipping in chocolate as well as playing the archtop!)
yummmmy...
Haiz...i have to report for another round of reservist in a few hours time. Rabakkss...IPKT and TSR and IPPT... Luckily i can escape IPPT. Ishk3......
May Allah guide us all..bless us with happiness and health n protect us from the dangers of this world, physically or mentally. Help us become successful people in the world and after...
"Maaf beribs!"What led to that 'compensation sleep' was a night-morning full of activities at the rooftop of Kent Ridge Hall. We sang, played guitars and be merry. Nora, Fazli, subsequently Faatihah and me. There were others whom i dun recognise too... Hahaha... Later on, when Fazli concussed, Nora got busy and Faatihah went to sleep... There i was lying down on the fishnet-hammock (painfully pinching my flub-of-a-flesh) staring at the stardusted night sky waiting for shooting stars to flash across...deep in thought.. (the people at the table were kind of noisy though!) Hahaha...
"..the guitar survived the ages... it was the lonely man's instrument."Yes.. Blackie was there with me. Light..made of cheap plywood, supposedly lousy and hard to press yet it was what i started of with or what i am starting out with.
I stumbled upon 'archtops guitars' whilst reading my current read by Tim Brookes. Apparently, the archtop guitars are like an evolution of the normal conventional guitars we see today; the ones with the sound-hole in the middle. These are also called flat-tops. Anyway, got this from wiki...An archtop guitar is a steel-stringed guitar with a distinctive "arched" belly and a sound particularly suited to blues and jazz. For this reason, archtops have a reputation as jazz boxes....
The top (and often the back) of the archtop guitar is either carved out of a block of solid wood, or heat-pressed using laminations, and normally has f-holes. The arching of the top and the f-holes are similar to the violin family, on which they were originally based. Although any true archtop has a rich tone unamplified, most archtop guitars have some sort of pickup/microphone system, and many are intended primarily for this purpose and so are semi-acoustic electric guitars...
Its kinda cool right?
For conventional guitars, the strings pull pack on the bridge and presses on the top of the soundboard. However, if you look at the picture above of the archtop, the strings pass through the bridge and does not end there but end at the tail-piece, that brass piece below. So the sound produced by the guitar is actually caused by the soundboard 'bouncing' rather than vibrating. Apparently Tim Brookes describes playing the archtop as 'dipping in chocolate' rather than playing a guitar. So it must be damn good.. hahaha... would love to try one! (both dipping in chocolate as well as playing the archtop!)
yummmmy...
Haiz...i have to report for another round of reservist in a few hours time. Rabakkss...IPKT and TSR and IPPT... Luckily i can escape IPPT. Ishk3......
May Allah guide us all..bless us with happiness and health n protect us from the dangers of this world, physically or mentally. Help us become successful people in the world and after...
it's OHKAY baby. (: