The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...

Olde Town Arvada announced that world’s only archtop guitar festival and the famous Blue Guitar exhibit formerly on display at the Smithsonian will be coming to Colorado on Sept. 9-11, 2022. “For one ...

ARVADA, Colo. — Many consider the archtop guitar — an instrument patterned after violins and cellos eliciting a more mellow sound than a typical flattop guitar — a truly American invention ...

The first archtop was patented in 1898. To honor the centennial, Chinery commissioned 21 master luthiers to craft 22 blue archtop guitars. All are on display at the National Museum of American ...

A weekend celebrating the art, science and passion behind the archtop guitar with premier guitar builders, performances, workshops and more at the Archtop Guitar Music Festival, Sept. 13-15 at ...