rsm
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still has a cutaway tho'He does those too. Here's a 90's era one. If you really want to see some amazing stuff go look for his Cameo model.
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The non-cutaway with the mounting I described was a D'Angelico design when players wanted to add pickups to their acoustic jazz boxes, based on Charlie Christian mounting a pickup in the '30s; D'Angelico thought mounting anything on the top would reduce the top's resonance IIRC, so he mounted everything on the sides / neck but the bridge . Eventually he provided cutaway models because of demand. I still like the non-cutaway desing.
I have a ~1937 Harmony Cremona V