Talk:Archtop guitar

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Deleted bias tag, this article needs cleanup/expansion more than being labeled as biased. Hopefully I'll get around to it soon . . . . . Soundguy99 21:37, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

This article needs a picture; I'll add one later.--Elysianfields 03:26, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

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Moveable bridges (aka. "rollerbridge") and tailpieces are found on almost all archtops.

This is AFAIK just plain false. It may be true that in some areas of the world, all the guitars in the local music shops have roller bridges, but both of the archtops currently pictured in the article have fixed tailpieces and conventional bridges. Dave Unger's home page doesn't currently have a rollerbridge in sight, nor do the top three models listed at the Epiphone archtop index.

Many commercial archtops have Bigsby units either as standard or option. I'm skeptical it's even most. It's certainly not all, and of those that don't have Bigsbys, the vast majority have fixed tailpieces (either trapeze or stop). There are also a few with Gibson Vibrola units rather than the Bigsby (which has been available both as a licensed Vibrola and as a third-party add-on).

Some, not all, of these tremolo arm equipped archtops have rollerbridges in addition. Few if any fixed tailpiece guitars have roller bridges, and many archtops do have trems but lack roller bridges. Movable bridges other than the roller bridge do exist, notably the Fender floating bridge, but again are only on trem-equipped guitars (and I've never heard of one on an archtop).

Sorry to carry on, but the removed text has too many confused or wrong ideas to list. Andrewa 14:07, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

John Zeidler had nothing to do with Benedetto and most certainly did not copy any of his designs. I was a very close friend of John Zeidler.