Bob Taylor puts it best when he says “Sometimes you find a guitar, fall in love, and buy it. Game over. Other times you go on the hunt and these days that includes the possibility of having a guitar made for you. While exciting, it’s a scary thing. Believe me, I understand. To help make a complicated subject simple, here’s my attempt at explaining what R. Taylor has to offer.”
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The Style 3 model from R. Taylor Guitars explores the rich tradition of the classic dreadnought body shape and adds modern R.Taylor tone, features and craftsmanship. This guitar features an Adirondack spruce top with Adirondack braces in a modified X pattern and Indian rosewood sides and back. This is a very classic combination of tone woods on a dreadnought style guitar and provides a great balance between deep full bass and bright crisp trebles. This guitar has the solid note fundamental, headroom and clarity that one would expect from these woods as well as an augmented upper midrange and lovely warm set of overtones.
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Bluegrass composer, vocalist and instrumentalist Dan Tyminski is probably best known for his Grammy winning version of “Man of Constant Sorrow” from the movie “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”. He is also a member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station and has won 10 Grammy awards for solo and collaborative projects. So what does a multiple Grammy award winning bluegrass player want from a guitar? How about a big loud dreadnought with tons of headroom and warm rich overtones. Sounds good to me!
MORE →Well isn’t this cute as a bug’s ear! These Larrivee Parlor guitars have been just begging for a cutaway and pickup system for years … and now Jean Larrivee has accommodated us with this brand new PV-09 model!
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Jean Larrivee has been under pressure from his dealers to create an instrument specifically targeted for fingerstyle players. As usual, he has responded with a guitar that has exceeded expectations! His new LSV-11 Fingerstyle debuted at the 2006 Winter NAMM show and immediately created a huge buzz in the industry!
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Today we are featuring a new guitar from local builder John Lacroix. This is a very cool 000 body guitar with a 12 fret neck joint and slotted head stock with “The Fountain” mother of pearl inlay. The lovely looking sets of Sitka spruce and Indian rosewood which make up the body are tastefully dressed up by a curly maple body binding, colorful spalted maple rosette and the high gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish. The mother of pearl “The Fountain” inlay on the headstock is eye catching without being too busy and adds a very nice focal point to the instrument.
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