Gallagher Guitars
Bluegrass Belle Grand Auditorium - Torrefied Adirondack Spruce/Mahogany (NEW)
Listed at Organic Sounds Select Guitars · Santa Ana, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Organic Sounds Select Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Organic Sounds Select Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Grand Auditorium
- Scale length
- 25.25"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Gallagher Guitars
Gallagher Guitars has built handmade flattop acoustics in Wartrace, Tennessee since J.W. Gallagher made his first one in 1965. The shop became internationally known after Doc Watson took home a G-50 in 1969 — the instrument he came to call "Ol' Hoss" — and played it on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 Will The Circle Be Unbroken, the recording where Merle Travis said it "rings like a bell." The company has passed through three generations of Gallaghers and, since 2019, has been carried forward by David and Reina Mathis using the same patterns, molds, and jigs J.W. built. Production stays small — about three months and 70 to 80 hours of bench work per guitar, with the same workmanship across every model regardless of trim level.
Organic Sounds Select Guitars
Organic Sounds Select Guitars is Larry and Debbie's family-run shop on N. Tustin Avenue in central Santa Ana, in the heart of Orange County. The shop's name doubles as its philosophy: "the right instrument feels alive in your hands, it feels organic" is the marketing line, and the curation reflects that — a focused, intentional catalog of around 300 instruments rather than a high-volume retail floor. The active boutique acoustic shelf runs deep on Huss & Dalton (one of the deepest H&D inventories in the atlas) and Santa Cruz (vintage 1929-D, Tony Rice signature, 50th Anniversary, and OM-Skye coverage), with rotating Lowden, Goodall, Gallagher, McNally, Olson, Waterloo, Kevin Ryan, Preston Thompson, TreeHouse, and Bourgeois. The storefront also hosts a periodic live concert series featuring touring acoustic players, and the shop is a short drive from the Anaheim Convention Center (home of the winter NAMM show). For Southern California boutique-acoustic shoppers — especially those tracking H&D — Organic Sounds is one of the deepest in-person catalogs in the region.