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 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.
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The 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 ...
Emily Wolfe has teamed up with Epiphone to create a magnificent axe that is as fun to play as it is to look at! A triple-threat rock & roll singer-songwriter-guitarist from Austin, Texas, Emily is breathing new life...
The Premier SS embodies the elegance of the D'Angelico name in both looks and tone. Featuring custom humbuckers voiced to suit its 15-inch-wide semi-hollow body, the SS offers warm, vivid tone that ranges effortless...
One of Epiphone’s original, most enduring classics, the Riviera makes a comeback! First introduced in the early ‘60s, the Epiphone Riviera’s semi-hollow design has been a favorite of players from all genres and gene...
The 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...
The 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...
The ES-335 is Epiphone's version of the historic ES-335 that has been wowing guitar players all over the world for over six decades. From its inaugural appearance in 1958, Gibson's ES-335 set an unmatched standard. ...
Epiphone brings back the legendary Sheraton semi-hollowbody guitar for a new age of players. The versatile Sheraton semi-hollowbody guitar is crafted from layered maple and includes a center block for superior feedb...
Created for guitar players who want the classic sound of an ES-335! This ES-335 is Epiphone's version of the historic Gibson ES-335 that has been wowing guitar players all over the world for over six decades. From i...
Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom Alex Lifeson 1976 ES-355
Alex Lifeson didn't just play guitar in Rush — he redefined what a guitar could say in progressive rock. His 1976 Gibson ES-355 was as central to that s...
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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.
