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Ribbecke Guitar Corporation Halfling™ Jazz Guitar

"To anyone looking for a guitar with stunning acoustic characteristics, great playability, and feedback resistance in live environments, try to get your hands on a Halfling. This is a keeper!" - Mark Guest

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.

"I have been playing for about 20 years. I have been lucky enough to own many high end custom guitars (D'Aquisto, American Archtop, Teufel, C.P. Thornton, etc.). This guitar ranks among the best. The separation of notes is equal to the D'aquisto...you need to hear it to believe it. I actually prefer the Halfling to a traditional archtop for most styles of music. The guitar is more versatile." - Kyle C.

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!

SPECIFICATIONS
- Body Size: 17” Lower Bout
- Body Depth: 3.175”
- Back and Sides: Maple
- Top: Sitka Spruce or Western Red Cedar
- Bracing: Spruce X Bracing
- Binding: Black and White Purfling
- Neck: Birdseye Maple
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Width at Nut: 1.75"
- Width at 12th Fret: 2.2"
- Scale: 25”
- Nut: Bone
- Frets: 22
- Strings: D'Addario 12 - 52 XL Nickel Electric
- Hardware: Ebony
- Pickup: Kent Armstrong Floating Pickup
- Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Case: Cedar Creek Hard Case

Price: $7,500

RIBBECKE HALFLING AUDIO SAMPLES:

Paul Asbell:
- Autumn Leaves
- If I were A Bell
- My Favorite Things
- Summertime

Mark Guest:
- Bus Stop
- Emily

Lance Keltner:
- Halfling Blues
- Halfling Flat
- Halfling Strummed
- Halfling Sunshine

Mark Kleinhaut:
- Dock Sea
- My One And Only Love
- Smorpheus
- Softly Rise
- Street Light
- The OC Jam

Pete Snell:
- All The Things You Are
- Bossa
- Fingers
- Wings