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  • The guitar flickering is interesting – maybe make one of them a semi-acoustic so they show different personalities?.

    Seven Seven Eighty Two (finished) « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

  • This Canadian musical collective come across as a sort of semi-acoustic Arcade Fire or a full-band version of Sufjan Stevens

    Live music booking now 2011

  • He hands this stunning instrument to me—a Höfner semi-acoustic.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • He hands this stunning instrument to me—a Höfner semi-acoustic.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • The other guys couldn't play, but it didn't matter, because Jeremy, all five feet of him, played Elmore's awesome slide licks on a large Fhole semi-acoustic and sang as if he were Elmore's lost English son.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • He hands this stunning instrument to me—a Höfner semi-acoustic.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • Actually now I think about it I have a semi-acoustic cover of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' by Junior Parker, which is incredible.

    Paul Fuzz on the pointlessness of Acoustic Versions... annawaits 2008

  • It's a huge triangular 12-string semi-acoustic guitar with no neck or fingerboard - instead, there's a one-octave piano keyboard which somehow mutes the strings I can't quite see how it operates - the keys might just push down open-tuning barre chords.

    Look on my Keytar, ye mighty, and despair! 2005

  • A semi-acoustic gig with a bunch of the Blokes, Billy's set veered off into new directions and new arrangements of familiar songs.

    Normal Service Resumed teddywolf 2005

  • Trey had three Warr Guitars on stage, including a hollowbody semi-acoustic half-fretless that I believe was strung as a bass and bass.

    the Red King reopens His court: King Crimson in Asheville NC badger 2003

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