Editing Jazz guitar (section)

===Archtop guitars===
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[[File:Guitard Epiphone 03.jpg|thumb|right |150 px| A hollow-bodied Epiphone guitar with violin-style "F" holes.]] While jazz can be played on any type of guitar, from an acoustic instrument to a solid-bodied [[electric guitar]]  such as a Fender Stratocaster, the full-depth archtop guitar has become known as the prototypical "jazz guitar." Archtop guitars are [[steel-string acoustic guitar]]s with a big soundbox, arched top, violin-style [[f-hole]]s, a "[[tremolo arm#Fender floating bridge|floating bridge]]" and [[magnetic pickup|magnetic]] or [[piezoelectric pickup]]s. Early makers of jazz guitars included [[Gibson Guitar Corporation|Gibson]], [[Epiphone]], D'Angelico and Stromberg. The electric guitar is plugged into a [[guitar amplifier]] to make it sound loud enough for performance. Guitar amplifiers have equalizer controls that allow the guitarist to change the tone of the instrument, by emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain frequency bands. The use of [[reverb effect]]s, often included in guitar amplifiers, has long been part of the jazz guitar sound. Particularly since the 1970s [[jazz fusion]] era, some jazz guitarists have also used [[effects unit|effects pedals]] such as [[distortion (music)|overdrive pedals]], [[chorus effect|chorus pedals]] and [[wah pedal]]s.

The earliest guitars used in jazz were acoustic, later superseded by a typical electric configuration of two [[humbucker|humbucking pickups]]. In the 1990s, there was a resurgence of interest among jazz guitarists in acoustic archtop guitars with floating pickups. The original acoustic archtop guitars were designed to enhance volume: for that reason they were constructed for use with relatively heavy [[guitar string]]s. Even after electrification became the norm, jazz guitarists continued to fit strings of 0.012" gauge or heavier for reasons of tone, and also prefer [[flatwound string]]s. The characteristic arched top can be made of a solid piece of wood that is carved into the arched shape, or a piece of laminated wood (essentially a type of plywood) that is pressed into shape. [[Spruce]] is often used for tops, and [[maple]] for backs. Archtop guitars can be mass-produced, such as the [[Ibanez Artcore series]], or handmade by [[luthier]]s such as [[Robert Benedetto]].