Ribbecke Guitar Corporation Halfling™ Jazz Guitar

Picture a guitar that could replace your gypsy jazz box, D28 Flat-top AND L5, an instrument where your hands and pick attack, as well as your string selection, be it flatwounds, roundwounds, electric or bronze and combinations thereof, can take you to all those familiar places while delivering a level of exquisite tone and clarity superior to what you've had before.

In Cliff's words: "I use it as my flat-top as well as my electric jazzbox, could not give it higher praise and truly believe it to be one of the most significant advancements in the evolution of the archtop guitar. It would be ideal to own 3 and keep one strung with bronze, one with electric and one with bronze on the low 3 and electric on the 3 high strings, but wishful thinking aside, I consider myself extremely fortunate to own and play a Halfling. I believe it to be a very important instrument that should be looked at closely by all those devoted to the guitar."

If you are looking for a true crossover instrument, you want the Halfling™ Jazz Guitar! Playing this guitar, you will experience superior separation of course (the ability to hear individual notes and complex chords in individual strings). As well as outstanding multi-dimensional acoustic imaging. It has great feedback suppression with an enhanced bass response not found in any other archtop guitar.

This versatile guitar may be strung with either phosphor bronze or electric strings, we suggest you try both! It has a floating Kent Armstrong, American made, pickup which is mounted in a unique platform on the neck, giving it the ability to perform like a Gibson L5 or a Gibson 175. It features volume and tone control, mounted under the pickguard as well as unique proprietary hex adjustable thumb wheels for the bridge.

The Halfling™ Jazz Guitar has a nitro-cellulose finish in the great tradition of fine guitar making; designed to age like an excellent wine.

What is a Halfling™?
It's Ribbecke Guitar corporation's revolutionary design of guitar or bass in which the soundboard is flat on the bass side & arched on the treble side. The Halflings™ are capable of large, full fundamental bass response with the ability to hear and distinguish all the notes of a complex chord when ringing together. By combining the flat topped Steel String guitar with an Archtop Ribbecke has combined the best of both worlds!