Acoustic Guitars

Per the requirements of the manufacturer, McPherson guitars can be shipped to their destination only by UPS Next Day Air or Messenger Service.

Per the requirements of the manufacturer, McPherson guitars can be shipped to their destination only by UPS Next Day Air or Messenger Service.

Per the requirements of the manufacturer, McPherson guitars can be shipped to their destination only by UPS Next Day Air or Messenger Service.

Per the requirements of the manufacturer, McPherson guitars can be shipped to their destination only by UPS Next Day Air or Messenger Service.

Its top is bordered in “rope” wood marquetry of alternating crème and black parallelograms, and the top has twin rings of rope that form a sort of slightly separated, wide herringbone appearance.  The bridge is ebony and has a rolled (compensated) bone drop-in saddle; the sides are bound in rosewood with a thin line of ebony-spruce-ebony on each border and also the back; the back stripe is small zipper wood marquetry.

The latest of Martin’s hard-working, great sounding solid wood Road Series guitars, the new DRS2 delivers a unique blend of durability and concert-quality sound and projection. Constructed with solid Sapele back and sides and Sitka spruce top, the DRS2 is a serious working musician’s guitar built with an extra rigid Stratabond neck to withstand the rigors of touring. A Fishman Sonitone sound reinforcement system completes this very road – and stage – worthy Martin. Includes a hardshell case.

The Martin List Price is $1099

The latest of Martin’s hard-working, great sounding solid wood Road Series guitars, the new DRS2 delivers a unique blend of durability and concert-quality sound and projection. Constructed with solid Sapele back and sides and Sitka spruce top, the DRS2 is a serious working musician’s guitar built with an extra rigid Stratabond neck to withstand the rigors of touring. A Fishman Sonitone sound reinforcement system completes this very road – and stage – worthy Martin. Includes a hardshell case.

The Martin List Price is $1099

DRS1 Dreadnought marks the return of Martin’s Road Series, which was originally introduced in 2001, designed for working and traveling guitarists on a modest budget, who require their instrument to be durable without giving up the quality of its sound. The top, back and sides are crafted of solid sapele and braced for resonance and projection. The DRS1 neck is built with multilaminate Stratabond™ for extra rigidity and durability, and the belly bridge and fingerboard are made of Richlite™ that achieves a similar look to ebony. This model comes equipped with the Fishman Sonitone sound reinforcement system.  The Martin List Price is $949

'OM' stands for "Orchestra Model," but 80 years after this body shape was first designed it has become the most popular 14-fret model with fingerstyle guitar soloists who choose to play on steel strings. Yet flatpickers also find it appealing, and when the graceful cutaway is added these OMs are often used by lead players who routinely explore all 20 frets much as they would on an electric guitar. The compact shape makes the Collings OM equally easy to handle onstage or when sitting on the couch, and the relatively shallow body (barely over 4 inches deep) results in balanced tone and an immediate response.

Martin Grand Concert 12-fret slothead fancy guitars are few and far between, you may recall that Joan Baez used an original 1920s pearl inlaid Grand Concert in much of her early recorded work. These guitars – the style -42 -- are tastefully beautiful, abalone inlaid around more than just the border of the top – with a classically inlaid fingerboard – in total its superlative description very nearly exceeds the capability of the normal spoken vocabulary; i.e., it is both charming and disarming.

One of the finest sounding (and most beautiful) new OM-model guitars you will ever have had the happiness to play, this barely used -- pretty much dead mint instrument (purchased October of 2008 and it appears to never have been played, which is why we keep it in its original hard shell case, not on display).

On the oval paper label somebody has written the initials “GWO” which we think is pronounced “Guh-whoa!!”    And that’s exactly what we said when we first saw this.

 

A new 14-fret Dreadnought crafted of rare premium tonewoods, the guitar's top is made of Carpathian spruce, solid Madagascar rosewood on the back and sides, with a neck carved from genuine mahogany. An ebony head plate features The Mamas and The Papas’ silhouettes inlaid in solid mother of pearl directly above the nut. Each guitar is equipped with MSP7200 medium gauge phosphor bronze Martin SP Lifespan strings and will be limited to no more than 100 special instruments.

The Martin List Price is $4999

These initials (RS) represent this model as a Rosewood Standard bearing serial number 1362, The RS is one of James Goodall’s original “morphed into the 21st Century and beyond” designs – it is not the traditional Dreadnought shape; instead it is more curvy and sensual, not as masculine, shall we say?

Solid Sitka Spruce Top with Solid Sapele Back and Sides, Select Hardwood Modified Low Oval Neck, Black Richlite Fingerboard, Chrome Enclosed Tuners with Large Buttons, Roland AP1 Electronics and 330 hard shell case.  The Martin List Price is $2199

This is Goodall's interpretation of a standard dreadnought, except that his overall shape is rounder and curvier than anybody else's dreadnought, and so the design is considerably graceful and elegant, somewhat easier to hold and play, and, because it is a Goodall, it sounds exquisite.  It sounds like all those little birds and woodland critters that surround Ms. White in that eponymous animated Disney feature.

The code, which should never be pronounced out loud since it can harm the pomum Adami (Adam’s Apple) or its surrounding tissue, means Koa Grand Concert, the C means Cutaway – in this case a sharp, Florentine, one, and the last K probably means Koa top This guitar is in remarkably clean condition – when you see it you will have a hard time accepting that it is not still new.