Lowden Guitars
S-22 - Cedar & Mahogany
Listed at Burgo's Guitars · Palmer Lake, CO
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Burgo's Guitars’ site.
$4,289
Last seen 17h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Burgo's Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Cedar
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Concert / Concertina
- Scale length
- 24.8"
- 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.
Burgo's Guitars
Burgo's Guitars is a by-appointment shop in Palmer Lake, a small town on the Front Range between Denver and Colorado Springs, built around the idea that choosing a handmade guitar should be unhurried — visits happen in a private demo room off a climate-controlled showroom, at whatever pace the player wants. The selection is tight rather than broad: Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, Boucher and Huss & Dalton alongside top-end Larrivée, with a standing shelf for local and small-shop luthiers. It reads as a room assembled by someone who plays them all.
