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Ibanez Artcore Expressionist AS93QMSP Semi Hollow Body Guitar
$999.99The AS is a semi-acoustic guitar built to tackle just about any genre of music you throw at it. The pickups are mounted directly to the center block for increased sustain and feedback elimination. Over a lon...12 Payments of $83.33
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Ibanez Artcore Expressionist AMH90 Electric Guitar
$594.95 - $799.99Though smaller in size than other semi-hollow bodies, the AMH90 guitar provides warm, punchy tone and abundant sustain. It offers the added benefit being compact enough that players more accustomed to a solid body e...12 Payments of $58.33
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Ibanez Artcore Expressionist AS93SP Semi Hollow Body Guitar
$899.99The AS is a semi-acoustic guitar built to tackle just about any genre of music you throw at it. The pickups are mounted directly to the center block for increased sustain and feedback elimination. Over a lon...12 Payments of $75.00
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Ibanez Artcore Expressionist AS93FM Semi-Hollowbody Transparent Cherry
$799.99The semi-hollow AS93FM features flamed maple top, back, and sides, and handsome ivory binding on the body, headstock, and fingerboard. An expertly crafted 3-Piece Maple/ Mahogany set-in neck ensures body liveliness ...12 Payments of $66.67
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Ibanez Artcore AS73G Semi-Hollowbody Guitar
$549.99The AS73G is the kind of semi-hollow that can tackle just about any genre of music you throw at it. The pickups are mounted into a sustain block for increased sustain and feedback elimination while the 17th fret joi...8 Payments of $68.75
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Ibanez Artcore AM73 Semi Hollow Body Electric Guitar
$549.99The AM was released by Ibanez for the first time in the early ”80s. Though smaller in size than other semi-hollow bodies, this guitar provides warm, punchy tone and abundant sustain. It offers the added benefit bein...8 Payments of $68.75
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Ibanez Artcore AS73 Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitar
$499.99If you thought the only good semi-hollow guitars were expensive, think again. Ibanez Artcore AS73 is the kind of semi-hollow that can tackle just about any genre of music you throw at it. The pickups are mounted int...8 Payments of $62.50
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Ibanez Artcore AS7328 Semi Hollow Body Electric Guitar
$629.99Ibanez Artcore AS7328 Semi Hollow Baritone Electric Guitar The Ibanez Artcore AS7328 is the perfect modern descendant of classic hollow-body guitars, offering versatility, grit, and affordability. Since its debut...12 Payments of $52.50
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Ibanez Artcore Expressionist AM93QA Semi Hollow Body Electric Guitar
$799.99The AM was released by Ibanez for the first time in the early ”80s. Though smaller in size than other semi-hollow bodies, this guitar provides warm, punchy tone and abundant sustain. It offers the added benefit bein...12 Payments of $66.67
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Ibanez Artcore Expressionist AM93ME Semi-Hollowbody
$799.99Ibanez selects gorgeous tonewoods and pro-grade electronics and hardware for the Expressionist AM93ME, providing players with a semi-hollowbody guitar that is hard to put down! The AM93ME features a Macassar Ebony t...12 Payments of $66.67
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Ibanez Artstar AM153FM Semi Hollow Body Electric Guitar with Case
$1,199.99The AM was released by Ibanez for the first time in the early ”80s. Though smaller in size than other semi-hollow bodies, this guitar provides warm, punchy tone and abundant sustain. It offers the added benefit bein...12 Payments of $100.00
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Ibanez AS53 Artcore Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitar
$399.99 - $551.10The Ibanez AS53 Artcore Semi Hollow Electric Guitar is built to tackle just about any genre of music you throw at it. The pickups on the AS53 are mounted into a sustain block for increased sustain and feedback elim...8 Payments of $50.00
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Semi Hollow Body Guitars
The incredible semi-hollowbody electric guitar has cemented its legacy as big, bold instrument ready to bring your vibrant rock-and-roll, blues, rockabilly, and alternative rock tones to life! Blaze new musical paths with one of these guitars - they take the deep, colorful tone of a hollowbody and pair it with the confidence and sonic fire of a solid electric. AMS has a wide selection of these instruments in different layouts, flavors, and styles - they will help you rock the stage and make you look incredible the whole time you're doing it!
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The standard solidbody guitar might get the lion’s share of the attention, but the big, bold semi-hollowbody guitar is a giant in its own right – these electric guitars are what really took rock’n’roll and popular music to a whole new level back in the late 1950s and early 1960s! What’s the difference between a solidbody guitar and a semi-hollowbody guitar? While the body of the first is fashioned from a solid block of wood, the second is constructed to have a chambered open interior enclosed by multiple pieces of wood. The pickups and electronics interact with these bodies differently, making each suitable for different types of music at different levels of volume.
Unlike those very first true ‘hollowbody’ guitars with a completely open interior chamber, a ‘semi-hollowbody’ instrument has smaller internal sections that are commonly separated by a solid center block. Why the difference? Well, mounting the pickups to the interior of a fully hollow instrument came with its own set of challenges. Overdriven high-gain signal was much more likely to lead to unpredictable distortion and feedback. Simply put, the center block added a more secured housing for the pickups. In 1958, the first semi-hollow - the Gibson ES-335 - was released and players in the hollowbody tradition were now able to power up their performances.
This family of guitars is often described as having ‘the best of both worlds’ – the increased stability of a solidbody with the characteristic clean tones of a hollowbody, tweaked slightly for an extra amount of edge and presence. As a result, this wonderfully complex and versatile sound makes the semi-hollowbody the ideal choice for jazz, blues, folk, country, rockabilly, alternative, and of course the vintage 50s-style rock n’ roll. We’re stocked with semi-hollow guitars from historic brands like Gibson, Epiphone, Gretsch, and Ibanez.