CLASSICAL AND CLASSIC ELECTRIC GUITARS
This icon means that a color photo for this instrument is available online. Click on it to view the photo. If you want us to send you a color photo of any instrument that is not online, give us a holler via email. 78-7328 Abe Wechter (used, c. 2001) hand-made “Marielle” model acoustic-electric nylon string “hybrid” guitar, #1213. in excellent plus condition with Wechter logo TKL hard shell case.
We offer you one of two instruments designed by Abe Wechter to be an electric nylon string – and made as a sister of the same model, in the same woods, that he made for Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. The main difference between them is that John’s is festooned with abalone decoration – the owner says John’s has more abalone than a raw bar -- this one is kept pretty simple. After building both of these guitars Wechter came out with a mass production model of similar design that he called an Elite 9000 Florentine, but these guitars bear no resemblance to those replicants. This is a nylon string jazz model with 14 frets to the body and a Florentine cutaway. It is made of the same woods as John's (cedar top, beautiful sapele back and sides), and both have the under-saddle Fishman Natural 1 Piezo pickups. On this guitar the “ghost” rosette and the peghead are made of French "bois de rose" from the workshop of a French cabinetmaker. The tuners are Rodgers ultra-high-tech classical machines with black mother-of-pearl buttons, a significant upgrade from the tuners that would have gone into this model, and supplied by the person for whom the guitar was custom made. Minor imperfections: This guitar has a tiny mar in the soundhole rosette and three mars from string changing below the bridge. It may have other indications of light normal playing time on it as well. This absolutely astonishing sounding, clear-as-a-bell with acoustic transparency and aural accuracy not found in any electric nylon string guitar encountered since a sleepy Andre’ Segovia accidentally plugged his Norelco electric shaver into a 220-volt outlet in Bulgaria. $6180 or, at our cash discount price, $5995.
78-7127 Cordoba (new) 32E classical guitar, #89205, with a zipper gigbag.
The Cordoba List is $800 and the Cordoba MAP and our Discount Price is $590.
78-7128 Cordoba (new) Model 45R classical, #92599, with plush lined hard shell case.
The Cordoba List Price is $1185 and the Cordoba MAP and our Discount Price is $870.
78-7129 Cordoba (new) Model 55RCE, #90392, with plush lined hard shell case.
The Cordoba List is $1845 but the Cordoba MAP and our Discount Price is $1360.
78-7122 and 78-7121 Guild (new) GAD-N5 Classical Guitar, #GAD26390 and GAD23425, each with hard shell case.
The Guild List is $1099.99 and our Cash Discount Price is $825.
78-7831 and 78-7380 Guild (new) GAD-C1 Classical guitar, #GAD28952, with hard shell case.
For each guitar the Guild List is $783.99 and our Cash Discount Price is $571.
78-7382 (and 78-7383) Guild (new) GAD-C2 Classical guitar, #GAD30189, with hard shell case.
For each guitar the Guild List is $963.19 and our Cash Discount Price is $670.
78-7384 Guild (new) GAD-C3 Classical guitar, #GAD26161, with hard shell case.
The Guild List is $1007.99 and our Cash Discount Price is $700.
78-7365 Renaissance (Rick Turner) (new) RN6-Std. nylon string chambered electric guitar, #082758, with a zipper gigbag.
Your cost for one of the finest sounding nylon string guitars in the known universe, is $2273 or, at our cash discount price, $2205.
78-7057 C F Martin (new) BackPacker Classic, nylon string, #187587, with a zipper gigbag.
The Martin List is $299 and our Discount Price is $231 with a Cash Discount Price of $224.
15-6855 Goodall (new) Crossover Nylon in Palo Escrito with a Port Orford Cedar top, #PCF4389, amazing (truly outstanding) sound, with a deluxe hard shell case.
Port Orford doesn’t exactly look like cedar, it looks more like a select Sitka spruce – but it sounds like cedar, with those rich yet perfectly clear midrange, articulate highs and rolling lows. This classical guitar sounds like the recordings you hear of your classical guitar playing heroes. Goodall sets a new standard with this Classical for the Connoisseur. Our discount price is $5752, our cash discount price is $5579.
AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald in September 2007, by Susan Blasko, reads “Day Four: The search for a new guitar continues. This time Ben and I catch the ferry to Staten Island to find a legendary shop called Mandolin Bros. We drift past the Statue of Liberty on this beautiful, clear day. It takes us a little while to find the shop but the search is worth the wait – a huge selection of new and vintage guitars. I get caught up in the magic of the place and buy a Martin nylon-string guitar from 1962. It is only the second guitar I’ve ever bought and I walk proudly down the street with it in my hand.
48-4506 George Lowden (new) Model S32J Cutaway Nylon-string Jazz guitar, with factory provided internal pickup system, including 9v battery powered preamp, with hard shell “Hiscox” brand case.
George Lowden makes some of the finest hybrid jazz nylon string guitars in the world – with a voice like no other. Perhaps it’s the unique size – the upper bout slopes quickly on the non-cutaway side and gently to a cutaway and to complete this graceful fluidity are striking flame maple bindings on the top and back with ebony and spruce purfling lines on the face. The upper bout is 10 1/3”m the lower bout 14 ¾” in width; the scale length is 25.5” the nut width 1 7/8” and the bridge spacing 2 ¼”..The East Indian rosewood is largely straight-grain and book-matched so perfectly that one can hardly find the back seam. The neck is three pieces of mahogany and what may be walnut at the center, the heel cap is rosewood; tuners are high quality, gold-tone with ivoroid buttons; the soundhole is bordered in a rosette of 9 alternating plies of light and dark colored woods. The pinless bridge is carved of East Indian rosewood that has the coloring of Brazilian, and it bears a compensated bone saddle. The fret board is black ebony with no dots on the front surface, but, unlike your typical classical guitar, it thankfully has 8 mother of pearl dotmarkers on the bass edge. The East Indian rosewood rounded-slot headstock bears the pearl script Lowden logo with the pearl underline. The sound of this instrument is most not traditional -- it sounds more like a cross between a fine, small-bodied, small-maker steel string and a ten thousand dollar professional concert classical. $4166 or at our cash discount price $4041.
15-6417 Loriente (new) Clarita Model classical guitar, #91221MB, with hard shell case.
Antonio Loriente is one of the most proficient classical guitar builders in Spain, and we are honored to represent his line. This guitar, even though modest in price, is beautiful in ways both overt and subtle. The top, for example, is bordered in four plies of colored wood purfling, the soundhole in twenty-one plies of black, crème and brown wood with a center circle of repeating diamonds made up of 6 light colored dots and one red center dot. The bridge is a rectangle of polished East Indian rosewood with enough black streaking to make one think “Brazilian;” the fretboard is ebony, the headplate East Indian, the backstripe might be maple, the tuners are high quality gold-plated with floral etched plates and pearloid buttons. Each side is bordered in what may be maple. This is a hand-made classical of a high order, and one whose sound will bring you back to the warm sun and fresh breezes of Old Espana, the cradle of its illustrious birth. The List Price is $2085, and the Manufacturer’s MAP price is $1730. However you may call or email and we’ll share our actual pricing with you.
15-5858 Renaissance (new) RN6-Standard chambered electric nylon-string guitar, #072438, with zipper gigbag.
$2065 or, at our cash discount price, $2003.
15-5858 Rick Turner “Renaissance” Model RN6-Std, #07-2438, with Renaissance zipper gigbag.
The RN-6 Standard is the matte finish, walnut and cedar guitar. We consider the guitars of Rick Turner, boy genius, to be magical; in a class all their own. That pickup and preamp that he invented is thunderously powerful – it sounds like no other pickup we have heard; it makes a nylon string guitar sound as room filling as a pipe organ. Call for price.
15-5789 Ramirez (new) Model 2CWE acoustic-electric cutaway classical, #81566, with SKB Humicase (hard shell).
The 2CWE was one of the first classical cutaway guitars to appear on the market. It was collaboration between Chet Atkins style guitarist Marcel Dadi of Paris and the Ramirez Company of Madrid. It provides a steel string player a classical sound with a neck that’s easier to play than most classicals have, with a cutaway, and with a fine sounding pickup system. The Manufacturer’s List Price is $3598. The Manufacturer’s MAP price is $2628
RODRIGUEZ CLASSICAL GUITARS: We have a supply of exactly 2 Rodriguez guitars, each a cutaway with pickup, which we have always found to be good quality, affordable and reliable, but unfortunately we cannot order any more of them since Rodriguez has disassociated from its former US distributor, the Fender Guitar Corporation. They are, for some reason that we cannot fathom, no longer offering their guitars to independent US dealers. We hope that they will reconsider this short-sighted decision.
The two we have are:48-3946 Rodriguez (new) BCE, with hard shell case.
NOW ON SALE. Rodriguez (new) Model BCE Classical cutaway w/pickup, XN1862. Was $1341. Now ON SALE for $1232 at our discount price, or at our cash discount price $1195.
43-0630 Rodriguez (new) CCE, with hard shell case.
Now on sale. Rodriguez (new) Model C Cutaway Classical guitar, with pickup, #0502, with a touched up cosmetic blemish on the face. WAS $1497. Now on Sale for $1335 or, at our cash discount price $1295.
CLASSICAL, CUTAWAY WITH PICKUP:
48-3974 Rick Turner’s slim-bodied American walnut sides & back spruce top Renaissance "Hybrid," #05-2247 -- an exceptional design in a nylon string, chambered electric guitar with the 1 3/4" nut width, with it’s own sleeping bag.
It has the special preamp inside it designed by Rick Turner, who not only built this guitar, but also, in the past, co-founded Highlander Pickups (one of the finest in the world). His new preamp takes two 9v batteries and produces a sound so full, rich and dense that you may feel that you've become "one" with the instrument. It overwhelms the mind - it's so good sounding, and it plays beyond effortlessly. Quite a marvelous toy, as Tom Paxton says, and one that can, used judiciously, make a career. Call for price.
83-3278 Lowden (new) S-32J, electric-acoustic cutaway nylon string, 13419, with hard shell case.
One of our most favorite cutaway nylon strings of this type, the Lowden Guitar Company of Newtontards, Northern Ireland, this magnificently finished, choicest woods and workmanship instrument was designed for jazz use but it is right at home in the folk, singer-songwriter and pseudo-classical contexts as well. We love these things.
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