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Ribbecke Guitar Corp. 16" Halfling™ Thinline Guitar

The Thinline design is based on Ribbecke's original Jazz Guitar. This guitar offers all of the same wonderful qualities, but at a skinny 2” wide it offers even greater versatility!

This is a true crossover instrument; combining the sensitivity of a steel string guitar, with a flatter soundboard on the bass side, and the articulate sound of a true jazz guitar. This guitar offers superior separation of notes with outstanding multi-dimensional acoustic imaging. The Thinline offers an enhanced bass response and offers an amazing level of feedback resistance!

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: 16” Lower Bout
- Body Depth: 2”
- Back and Sides: Cherry, Mahogany or Maple
- Top: Sitka Spruce
- Bracing: Spruce X Bracing
- Binding: Black and White Purfling
- Neck: Mahogany
- 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