Instrument Details
Regular Price: $8,755
Special Price (Sale) $6,695
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- Specs
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- Status
- In Stock
- Brand
- Ribbecke Guitars
- Product Year
- 2014
- Model
- Halfling
- Serial #
- 1191
- New/Preowned
- New
- UPC
- 600246969064
- SKU
- TMP413
- Condition
- Some play marks on top and back, small ding at center of heel.
- Body Type(s)
- Large, Grand Auditorium, Archtop
- Back & Sides
- Rosewood - Indian
- Top
- Spruce - Sitka
- Neck Wood
- Mahogany
- Neck Profile
- C
- Bridge
- Ebony
- Rosette
- None
- Top Trim
- None
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Fingerboard Bindings
- Ebony
- Fret Markers
- Side Dots
- Frets to Body
- 14
- Headplate
- Ebony
- Headstock Bindings
- ABS
- Headstock Inlay
- Builder Logo
- Body Bindings
- ABS
- Tuners
- Gotoh 510 Delta Series 21:1
- Tuner Finish
- Nickel
- Cutaway
- Venetian
- Pickguard
- Ebony
- Pickup
- None
- Body Length
- 19.625 in
- Upper Bout
- 12 in
- Lower Bout
- 16 in
- Body Depth Heel
- 3.375 in
- Body Depth Tail
- 4.5 in
- Scale Length
- 25.4 in
- Scale Length (mm)
- 650 mm
- Nut Width
- 1.75 in
- Nut Width (mm)
- 44.5 mm
- String Spacing
- 2.25 in
- String Spacing (mm)
- 57.2 mm
- Weight
- 5 lb. 10 oz.
- Case
- Hardshell - Visesnut Series 1 + Padded Cover
- Audio File
- Description
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True balance is a rare thing in this world. Poised perfectly between bass and treble, sustain and attack—a rare thing. Tom Ribbecke’s Halfling top threads the needle just so. Check out our demo for this Indian Rosewood & Sitka Spruce Halfling pin bridge archtop, and listen for the roundness of the treble response and just a tinge of added warmth in the lower register that brightens up the bass. There’s an archtop-esque pop to individual notes that allows for flatpicked passages to stand out, and lots of headroom. Ribbecke blessed this neck with an oil-slick setup that practically plays itself. When we experimented with dropped tunings, the voice remained crisp and focused and cut well.
This is a wonderful chameleon of a guitar that could easily play straight ahead jazz with flat rounds on it or acoustic fingerstyle with phosphor bronze strings, and everything in between. I love its clarity and control and projection. 
This guitar really is halfway between an archtop and flattop in tone. The low E string has a resonance that you just never hear in an archtop but the mids and highs have that punchy archtop response that jazz guitarists crave. - Accessories
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