The innovation here is that it is really two guitars. On the one hand, it’s an archtop with vaguely f-hole-like soundholes and a compressed voice. But once the cover is removed from the center soundhole, it sounds more open, similar to a Gypsy-jazz guitar.

The fact that the ebony fingerboard disappears into the centered soundhole is more of a playful design than an innovation. The same could be said about the tailpiece with its integrated saddle, but we think that these elements just had to be done like that!