To honor the centennial, Chinery commissioned 21 master luthiers to craft 22 blue archtop guitars. All are on display at the National Museum of American History through October 1. Hokey?

“We ended up with a collection of the greatest archtop guitars ever made.” The Blue Guitar Collection was displayed at the ...

Along with our pictured Master 400 – Stromberg’s flagship acoustic archtop – there is also ... numbers started at 300, some 636 guitars were made before both Charles and Elmer passed away ...