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Gretsch G2655T Centerblock Jr Double Cut Guitar with Bigsby
$549.95 - $649.99The all-new Streamliner Collection revitalizes the best elements from the past and combines them with exciting new features to deliver exceptional performance, sound, and style at an incredible value. The G2655T Str...12 Payments of $54.17
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Gretsch LE Falcon Center Block Semi Hollow Body Guitar with Bigsby and Case
$3,199.00 - $3,789.99The Gretsch Professional Collection combines classic Gretsch sound with modern performance features that deliver an enhanced playing experience. Featuring flagship pickups and electronics, these guitars are designed...12 Payments of $250.00
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Gretsch LE G2655TG Streamliner Center Block Jr with Bigsby
$739.99The Limited Edition G2655TG Streamliner Center Block Jr. Double-Cut with Bigsby bursts into the modern era with powerful sound and style in a smaller package. Featuring gleaming gold hardware, metal G-Arrow control ...12 Payments of $61.67
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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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PRS 40th Anniversary Special Semi-Hollow LTD Guitar with Case
$5,940.00PRS 40th Anniversary Special Semi-Hollow: A Symphony of Wood and Wire This isn't just a guitar; it's a testament to forty years of relentless innovation, packaged in a breathtakingly beautiful and versatile instrum...12 Payments of $250.00
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PRS SE Special Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar with Bag
$979.95 - $1,149.00PRS SE Special Semi-Hollow: The Tonal Swiss Army Knife with a Soul Let’s be real: most guitars are specialists. You have your single-coil spank machine, your humbucker rock monster, and your airy semi-hollow jazz...12 Payments of $95.75
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PRS SE Zach Myers 594 Electric Guitar with Gig Bag
$849.95 - $999.00A Head-Turning Axe with Impeccable Appointments The SE Zach Myers is packed with features that will satisfy even the most demanding musicians. Featuring a chambered mahogany body with maple cap, flame maple venee...12 Payments of $83.25
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Schecter C-1 EA Classic Guitar
$1,274.00 - $1,499.00All the sounds of an organic, full-bodied acoustic and a shimmering, rock-ready electric in one sleek instrument! With the new C-1 EA Classics, the unique combination of Fishman Piezo elements and Schecter Pasadena ...12 Payments of $124.92
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Reverend Charger Air HH Semi-Hollow Body Guitar
$1,499.00Warm, rich, and alive. The Reverend Air Charger HH is built to breathe. A solid slab of mahogany is routed out to yield a full-length center block. This construction delivers sustain you can feel. A spruce top adds ...12 Payments of $124.92
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Reverend Kingbolt Air 390 Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar
$1,599.00Balance vintage character with modern playability with the Reverend Kingbolt Air 390. It begins with a slab of mahogany, routed out for a full-length center block. The body is capped with a solid spruce top. The mah...12 Payments of $133.25
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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!
American Musical Supply is excited to be your stop for Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars from top brands! We offer True 0% interest payment plans - applying is easy. Use your own debit or credit card, enjoy fast and free shipping, and add a Semi-Hollowbody to your creative setup.
We make buying a Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitar quick and easy - in-stock items that are ordered before 5PM will ship out the same day! (see our Shipping Information Page for more details) Do you have questions about Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars and want to know which one would be best for you? Give us a call at 800-319-9043 - our experts are standing by.
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.