A guitar with a flat soundboard and steel strings that is used in folk and rock music
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Flat top guitar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(April 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
A flat top guitar is a type of guitar body model which has a flat top (as opposed to archtop). The term "flat top" is usually used to refer to the most popular type of steel-string acoustic guitars;[1] however, electric guitars such as the Fender Telecaster and the Gibson Les Paul Junior and Special can be described as "flat top".[2]
^"Glossary: Flat Top Guitar". Sweetwater.com. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
^Archtop and Flat-Top Guitars on Learn Guitar, 15 Nov 2011
and rockabilly players. Typically, an archtop guitar has: Six strings An arched top and back, not a flattop and back A hollow body Moveable adjustable bridge...
acoustic guitars include the flattopguitar (typically with a large sound hole) or the archtop guitar, which is sometimes called a "jazz guitar". The tone...
flattop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A flattop is a type of very short hairstyle. Flattop, Flattop, or FlatTop may also refer to: FlatTop (Ross...
the instruments of choice of many professionals; a smaller range of flat-topguitars were also produced, some designations of which were later continued...
"Tennessee FlatTop Box" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Johnny Cash. It was released as a single in late 1961, reaching...
The Gibson Country Western is a flat-top acoustic guitar model originally manufactured by the Gibson Guitar Corporation between 1956 (or 1955) and 1978...
the archtop guitar's bridge. X-bracing, similar to that of flat-topguitars was later introduced. Their tops are inherently stronger than flat tops, so less...
6-string guitars using open E tuning, one using a flat-topguitar, and one using a resonator guitar. The song's simple melody and rhythmic counterpoint...
plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum...
in flat-topguitars and traditional bowl-back mandolins; F-holes in instruments from the violin family, archtop mandolins and in archtop guitars; C-holes...
as "Crying Guitar", "The Last Sunrise", "Charlie's Boogie", "FlatTop Chimes", and "Newfoundland Reel" please fans of the FlatTopGuitar. Bates traveled...
The Gibson Southern Jumbo is a flat-top acoustic guitar model originally manufactured by the Gibson Guitar Corporation between 1942 and 1978. For the...
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string...
California. He continued to offer all eight models of the Rickenbacker flattopguitar line, building each instrument to order, until his license expired...
can come in the form of flattop or archtop wood-bodied, metal-bodied resonator, or solid-bodied instruments. Tenor guitars normally have a scale length...
outward-curving shape, whereas conventional acoustic guitars have a thin, flattop. Some steel-string acoustic guitars include a built-in system to electrically...
L-00 style guitars built as other brands the Marshall Special has an X-braced top. The bracing is the lightest of any Gibson flat-topguitar ever made...
instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than regular acoustic guitars, which were overwhelmed...
the Everly Brothers Flattop. This flattopguitar featured a thin J-185-style body and an adjustable bridge. The guitar was unusual in that it featured...
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (/beɪs/) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in...
boutique USA guitar producer, Hamer, began making both flat-top and carved-top doublecutaway guitars very similar to the then-dormant Gibson designs. These...
foundation in bebop and cool jazz, playing both a flat-top acoustic guitar and an electric guitar with a softer, more mellow tone which was sweetened...