1939 Epiphone Vintage 17″ Broadway Archtop Guitar- Rare Walnut Back and sides

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Introduced in 1932, the Epiphone Broadway has been one the company’s most popular models, and has remained in production until 1955 and remains the most acoustically powerful variant of the model. Built with the same body size and scale length as the Deluxe, the Broadway sports the same gold hardware, powerful voice and playable neck of its costlier cousin. The Broadway peghead vine is among the most graceful inlays ever designed. With a more pronounced finial at the top, the inlay is cut with a bolder design than typical, with a wider pearl body to the intricate floral design.

This Epiphone 17″ Walnut Broadway was produced for only three short years, between 1936 and 1939 in New York. Hand carved solid spruce top; black walnut back and sides; 5 piece laminated mahogany neck with maple centerstripes; Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with block mother of pearl inlay; abalone vine pattern peghead inlay in bound headstock, triple-bound body, bound fingerboard and headstock.Original gold hardware includes Grover Sta-Tite open-back butterbean tuners, and adjustable Brazilian rosewood bridge. Vintage Epiphone tortoiseshell pickguard, gold Pat. Pend Frequensator-stamped tailpiece.This guitar is in great shape structurally, with very low action and a wide comfortable neck.  With a Black walnut back and  a handcarved, quartersawn bookmatched solid spruce top this archtop produces a tone that is distinctly more brilliant with more warmth than ordinary maple bodies. The mids and highs have exceptional projection and a brilliant bell-like tone, making these guitars particularly well suited for acoustic lead guitar. Great cutting power for comping with the warmth and sustain of finely aged wood. This is a superb model of the old Epiphones, with the chunky full tones that they were known for.  Undoubtably the best comping archtop ever made.

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