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A stoptail bridge (sometimes also called a stopbar bridge) used on a solid body electric guitar or archtop guitar is a specialized kind of fixed hard-tail bridge. Hard-tail bridged guitars use different bridges from those guitars fitted with vibrato systems (which are also known as tremolo arms or whammy bars).
The instrument featured a metal tailpiece and teardrop shaped "f-holes," and strongly resembled the archtop guitars of the 1930s. James S. Back obtained patent #508,858 in 1893 for a guitar (which also mentions applicability to mandolins) that among other features included an arched top, which were produced under the Howe Orme name.
Moveable bridges (aka. "rollerbridge") and tailpieces are found on almost all archtops. This is AFAIK just plain false. It may be true that in some areas of the world, all the guitars in the local music shops have roller bridges, but both of the archtops currently pictured in the article have fixed tailpieces and conventional bridges.
D'Aquisto flat top guitars are a group of sixteen guitars [10] made by D'Aquisto. He made sixteen flat top guitars from 1973 to 1984. [10] He made two types, a grand auditorium and a dreadnought. [11] He believed the large oval sound hole produced greater projection than the typical round sound hole. [12] He numbered his guitars from 101 to 116 ...
Parker sold his company in 2004. A few years later, he started designing archtop guitars. His archtop designs incorporate an adjustable neck that mounts to the guitar via a turnbuckle mechanism that allows the action to be adjusted without affecting the tuning, a unique tailpiece and non-traditional sound holes. As of 2015 Parker has a shop in ...
Mandolin tailpiece, which simply anchors the strings solidly. The tailpiece anchors the strings, so it must be strong enough to withstand their combined tension.Tailpieces of the violin family or viol families of instruments, including double basses, are attached by a "tailgut" looped around the tailpin or end button, which is let into the bottom bock of the instrument. [1]