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Gretsch Pro Broadkaster LX Bigsby Semi Hollow Body Guitar with Case
$3,299.99Our Professional Collection combines Gretsch sound with modern performance features that deliver an enhanced playing experience. Featuring flagship pickups and electronics, these guitars are designed for powerful so...12 Payments of $250.00
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Gretsch Pro Broadkaster Jr LX Bigsby Semi Hollow Body Guitar with Case
$3,299.99Our Professional Collection combines Gretsch sound with modern performance features that deliver an enhanced playing experience. Featuring flagship pickups and electronics, these guitars are designed for powerful so...12 Payments of $250.00
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Gretsch LE Streamliner G2622TG Center Block Double Cutaway Semi Hollow Guitar
$799.99The Limited Edition G2622TG Streamliner Center Block Double-Cut with Bigsby bursts into the modern era with powerful sound and style. Featuring gleaming gold hardware, metal G-Arrow control knobs, and pearloid Big B...12 Payments of $66.67
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Gretsch LE Streamliner G2655TG Center Block Jr Double Cutaway Semi Hollow Guitar
$799.99The 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 $66.67
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PRS S2 Special Semi-Hollow with Gig Bag
$2,599.00PRS S2 Special Semi-Hollow: The Tonal Swiss Army Knife Let's be honest: dragging three different guitars to a gig is a recipe for a sore back and a bad attitude. You need the warm growl of a humbucker, the spanky...12 Payments of $216.58
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PRS Special Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar with Case
$5,060.00PRS Special Semi-Hollow: The Sonic Chameleon You’ve Been Waiting For Let’s face it: dragging a boatload of guitars to a gig is a workout nobody signed up for. You need the humbucker growl for the rock tunes, the ...12 Payments of $250.00
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Reverend Airwave 12-String Semi-Hollow Body Guitar
$1,499.00The Reverend Airwave 12 soars to new heights. This model has a mahogany body and a solid spruce top, with Shooting Star f-holes. Glide through your set with featherweight pearloid tuner buttons that keep the neck ba...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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Reverend Kingbolt Air HH Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar
$1,599.00The Reverend Kingbolt Air HH is a semi-hollow guitar designed with a modern touch. It is made from solid mahogany and capped with a spruce top, giving the Kingbolt body extra resonance and depth. Each note rings out...12 Payments of $133.25
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Washburn SH35 Semi-Hollow Body Guitar
$999.00The Washburn Wing SH35 is the first semi-hollow guitar in the Wing Series, combining the series’ vintage vibe with modern versatility. With specially-voiced humbucking pickups optimized for the rich resonance of a s...12 Payments of $83.25
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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.