Lowden Guitars
F-35 (Adirondack Spruce and Rosewood) New
Listed at Jake's Main Street Music · Beacon, NY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Jake's Main Street Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Jake's Main Street Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- F
- Scale length
- 25.59"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Lowden Guitars
Lowden Guitars are built in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland — the work of George Lowden, who turned professional in 1974 and has spent fifty years refining a voice unlike anything else in the acoustic world: shimmering, harmonically layered, with a long singing sustain. Much of that character traces to choices George arrived at early — his "dolphin" strut profiles and A-frame bracing, a five-piece neck, a soundbox designed from the physics up rather than after the American dreadnought — and the result is a guitar players recognise instantly. Lowden was fingerstyle shorthand long before Ed Sheeran carried one onto arena stages; Pierre Bensusan, Alex de Grassi, Richard Thompson, and Paul Brady are among those who've made a Lowden their own. Since 2004 it has been a family firm, with George's sons now in the workshop.
Jake's Main Street Music
Main Street Music is a small Beacon, New York shop run by Jacob Bernz and his Grammy-winning father David Bernz, opened in 2013 a few doors from the Town Crier Cafe — one of the East Coast's longest-running acoustic music venues. Both owners are working acoustic musicians, and they treat the shop as a community gathering place as much as a retail store, hosting story nights, pub sings, and concerts alongside the inventory. Setups and repairs are run by Joseph Dibisceglie (formerly of Imperial Guitar and Sound) in a relaxed sit-and-try-it atmosphere across new, used, vintage, and consigned instruments. Their boutique acoustic shelves anchor on Collings, Santa Cruz, Lowden, Bourgeois, Larrivée, and Huss & Dalton.
