View Poll Results: Jazz guitarists do you prefer sold body or hollow body?
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I prefer solid body
81 15.76% -
I prefer hollow body
433 84.24%
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Originally Posted by Jonathan0996
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02-28-2023 06:03 PM
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As a lover of guitar based music, I would hate to see either one, solid or hollow, "win" the debate and become the only way to go.
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Originally Posted by ruger9
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Originally Posted by bluejaybill
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Originally Posted by bluejaybill
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Originally Posted by bluejaybillOriginally Posted by entreszOriginally Posted by ccroft
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I can understand how some prefer a lightweight guitar but I have had entrapment surgery and maintain a very small tear in my rotator cuff and often play my LP for 4,5,6 hours without issue. Always with a guitar strap, I find the weight to be beneath noticing while the much slimmer body depth is a great benefit. I am mostly using a tall stool with some time standing. Maybe standing up for that much time would be a factor that I don't understand. At any rate, there's no reason to play any instrument that causes discomfort or pain.
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Originally Posted by oldane
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Originally Posted by entresz
Not the weight of a normal LP
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Both sound good, there is just a little difference, solid bodies can play with a beautiful sustain, the archtop is more comfortable for very traditional comping à la Freddie Green and maybe for the neck.
Except this it's the same thing even if I prefer solid body guitars because they can have the sound you want with a little bit of understanding of how things work.
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I would have said Hollow but I just got my
First Telecaster
and I'm really digging it !
So I didn't vote in the poll !
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I much prefer the sound and feel of a hollowbody, but I've used just a solid body for 6 years (playing Jazz with it) and it was ok and as jazzy as I could get it to sound (but never the same as a hollow). Nowdays I play hollowbody + I'm having a small, travel, short-scale, headless solidbody being built that I can always bring with me anywhere I want to.
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Personally, some guitar shapes are easier for me to use sitting for long periods of time, whilst practicing, without too much fatigue. In my case, this means an ergonomic solid Strandberg type body design, although, I have many excellent archtop guitars and prefer how a good archtop guitar sounds.
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ok i just did a band rehearsal
with my new tele ….
I prefer my hollowbody ….
i can vote in the poll now !
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Originally Posted by JamesAP
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I like full size archtops when other players play them.
When I play them I don't like dealing with feedback, they feel too big and they may not sustain enough on high notes.
I find it easier to get my sound from a semi with a block or a solid, which don't always sound all that different to me.
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Using 335 now, does a great job
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While I have a wide array of solid, semi hollow and hollowbody instruments , I feel traditional Jazz is best suited to hollowbodies with flatwounds. For the modern , fusionesque adventures solids have there place.
L-5, L-50, ES-150 questions
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