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Taylor 614ce Builder’s Edition Silent Satin Wild Honey Burst

On July 2, 2020 /

The Taylor 614ce Builder’s Edition is designed to elevate the acoustic playing experience by providing a luxurious feel and tone. Based around the new V class bracing, the Taylor 614ce Builder’s Edition features a torrefied Sitka spruce top and maple sides and back. The process of roasting the Sitka spruce decreases dampening, which in turn delivers a more played in feel and increased touch sensitivity.

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Republic Tricone Style 200 Resophonic Guitar, 2017

On June 22, 2020 /

Tags: bluegrass, blues, Canada, country music, cutaway, folk, guitar, ontario, Reso-Phonic, Resonator, resophonic, rock, style 200, The Twelfth Fret, toronto, Tricone

The Republic Tricone Style 200 is a reproduction of the original 1920s National tricone, built as the guitarist’s entry into the volume wars. At the time, acoustic guitars couldn’t be heard over the banjos and woodwinds common in musical groups.

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Taylor 814ce Brazilian Rosewood Grand Auditorium Guitar, 2015

On June 22, 2020 /

This Taylor 814ce with Brazilian Rosewood from late 2015. , Brazilian Rosewood was regarded as the ultimate material for guitar bodies, delivering a warm, richly complex overtone structure with plenty of power. Eventually, overharvesting led to embargoes. It’s now rare to see any new guitars built with Brazilian Rosewood, due to heavy restrictions resulting from necessary conservation efforts.

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Tony Duggan Smith Mystic Short Scale Archtop Blonde, 1995

On June 9, 2020 /

Here is a treat – a Tony Duggan Smith Mystic, a short scale (21.89 inch, 556mm) cutaway archtop built during 1995 at Duggan-Smith’s Toronto shop. Tony Duggan-Smith has been around the Canadian arts music and film scene for decades. He was a member of the Pukka Orchestra and Neotone after apprenticing with Jean Larrivee and leading the repair department at Ring Music, then run by Bill Wagner and Michael McLuhan (yes that McLuhan.), and has also over a decade of work in the film industry. One of his current projects is the Apprehension Engine, an instrument specifically designed for use in horror films.

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Bourgeois JOMC Jumbo OM Cutaway Steel String Guitar NOS, 2015

On May 14, 2020 /

Here is a new, old stock Bourgeois JOMC Jumbo OM Cutaway, built during 2015 with a German Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides. The neck is Mahogany, with Ebony for the fingerboard and bridge; the headplate is highly figured and likely Madagascar Rosewood. The inlays are Mother of Pearl, and the tuners are by Grover.

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Gibson ES175 Single Pickup Archtop Electric Sunburst, 1966

On May 12, 2020 /

One of the classic musical workhorses, the Gibson ES175 single pickup guitar made its debut in 1949 with a P-90 at the neck, with the pickup updated to the all-new humbucker in 1957. In 1952, the ES175D (for Double pickup) appeared, with a second pickup in the bridge position. These guitars were immediate hits with professional players and serious amateurs in many genres – Jazz, Pop, and Country were the most common and the ES-175 was a standard for jazz players from its introduction until being recently discontinued.

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Taylor 614ce Builder’s Edition Silent Satin Wild Honey Burst

Republic Tricone Style 200 Resophonic Guitar, 2017

Taylor 814ce Brazilian Rosewood Grand Auditorium Guitar, 2015

Tony Duggan Smith Mystic Short Scale Archtop Blonde, 1995

Bourgeois JOMC Jumbo OM Cutaway Steel String Guitar NOS, 2015

Gibson ES175 Single Pickup Archtop Electric Sunburst, 1966

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