Still, even if you're right, how do you guys know what I want better than I do...I told you of a 40 years memory of a guitar, didn't I ? And it doesn't look at all like this one, which is what I get googling Guild M-75 Aristocrat.
If this guitar is "hollow-body" as you say, and doesn't have any sound hole, where do you get its sound from ? I'm talking about guitars that have a bit of sound at least when played unplugged : aren't you talking about guitars that are empty inside in order to be lighter ?
NO.
Chambered construction allows use of a discrete top for resonance while suppressing feedback by virtue of the one-piece body.
In fact originally Les Paul himself advocated a 'hog top over maple body but it would have been just too heavy.
Heaviness was part of the price of entry, lamented by many players over the years and(to the point the Les Paul was even abandoned for a while in favor of the all solid SG)and driving Gibson to experiment with methods of lightening up the Les Paul by changing the chambering in more recent years.
There are hundreds of Les Paul-like guitars - even thousands - whereas I can't think of any other slim hollow-bodies with only one cut-away
Gibson ES-225t '55-'59.
And miscellaneous others after that, granted, not always "thin".
I honesty don't remember if the guitar I was telling of did have the Harp tail-piece or not : it was somewhere in the late 70s to early 80s when I briefly had it in hand...One thing I do remember though is that it didn't have gloss finish I think...But from the way it looked, it was definitely a StarFire, probably II, without the "ST" mention then : thanks GAD for giving this important and relevant detail...
I'll have a look at the X-3000 (though it's not the guitar I was telling of...). Maybe this one could be all solid woods made ?
The X-3000 is a solid routed body like a Les Paul but I don't recall if the top is solid or not.
In fact laminated tops help suppress feedback too.
The Starfire is actually more similar to Gibson's "ES" series; surprised nobody mentioned that.
There were 2 build types underneath the single or double cutaway:
A fully hollow version and one with a neck extension to help suppress feedback, thus the 4 basic types I-IV.
And As far as I know all Guilds got gloss NCL finish in the '70's so suspect the guitar you remember had been scuffed if it wasn't a gloss finish.
For the 'connoisseurs (?), if you look at the body's specs for M-75s as they are listed up there on the board below, it does say 'chambered' on the body construction line :
www.guildguitars.com/g/m75-aristocrat/
Right. Chambered typically implies a solid chunk of wood, routed out.
"Hollow" and "Semi-Hollow" mean traditional separate back/sides/top construction with a through-body neck design such as an ES-335 being "semi-hollow".
Again, in the pursuit of feedback suppression.