Models

D'Angelico Excel EXL-1

Hollow-body archtop guitar model

South Korea

The Excel EXL-1 is a 17-inch single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar inspired by John D'Angelico's original Excel introduced in 1947. It pairs a laminated spruce top with laminated flame maple back and sides, a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a 25.5-inch scale. A single floating Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith mini-humbucker, a floating ebony bridge, and the brand's stairstep tailpiece give it a woody, articulate tone for jazz rhythm and lead.

Höfner Club 40

Thin hollow-body electric guitar without soundholes

Electric guitar

A small, thin hollow-body electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner from the mid-1950s, built without soundholes. The Club series (Club 40, 50 and 60) was popular with British players in the early 1960s; John Lennon's first electric guitar was a Höfner Club 40 he bought in Liverpool in 1959.

Höfner 500/2 Club Bass

Short-scale hollow-body electric bass

Electric bass

A short-scale hollow-body electric bass made by the German maker Höfner, a single-cutaway sibling of the famous 500/1 violin bass. Introduced in the late 1950s, the 500/2 Club Bass shares the violin bass's light hollow body and warm, thumpy short-scale tone and is associated with the early-1960s Beatles/Hamburg era. Höfner continues to offer Club Bass reissues.

Höfner President

Single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar

Electric guitar

A hollow-body archtop electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner, produced from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. One of Höfner's best-known vintage electrics, it was offered in full-depth and thinline bodies and in non-cutaway and Florentine-cutaway forms, with pickups that evolved across the production run. George Harrison played a Höfner President early in his time with The Beatles.

Gibson ES-150

Electric guitar model

Electric guitar · United States

Introduced in 1936, the ES-150 was Gibson's first successful electric Spanish guitar and an instrument that helped launch amplified jazz. Its bar pickup became known as the "Charlie Christian" pickup after the pioneering guitarist who made the model famous.