When you look at it, it really is a dumb shape. The smaller top bout and larger bottom bout look like they were designed for neck dive and poor upper fret access.
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I am not surprised. Islamic science has been responsible for any number of scientific discoveries, for example that eating pork causes men to stop being jealous of their wives. A Ph.D. in linguistics from upper Egypt told me that once. He was about to divorce his wife because...