Ryan Guitars
Mission Grand Concert Acoustic Guitar - Brazilian Rosewood/Adirondack with Hardshell Case - Used
Listed at Haggerty's Music · Rapid City, SD
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Haggerty's Music’s site.
$19,500
Last seen 6h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Haggerty's Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Mission
- Scale length
- 25.7"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
Ryan Guitars
Ryan Guitars are built in Westminster, California by Kevin Ryan — a former Northrop Aeroscience Lab engineer who started prototyping acoustic guitars in 1987 while his day job built jet fighter scale models for transonic wind tunnel testing. The engineering background shows up everywhere in the work: the Ryan Bevel (the original integrated armrest, since widely copied), Acoustic Flutes sound ports, laser-sculpted bracing patterns, a spherically-arched back. Ryan's catalog reads less like a pre-war tribute and more like a thirty-year argument that the acoustic guitar could still be reimagined through precision tooling and materials thinking. Acoustic Guitar Magazine named Kevin one of the most influential builders of the previous thirty years in 2010 — calling the guitars "a blueprint for scores of other builders" and "a modern classic." The catalog stays small and the queue runs long; each instrument is hand-built in Southern California.
Haggerty's Music
Haggerty's Music is a family-run shop in Rapid City, South Dakota — the Atlas's first dealer in the state — with roots in a 1963 Haggerty family department store whose back-room instrument counter grew into a full music store on West Main Street. Today it's best known as a Taylor powerhouse: a Taylor Premier dealer carrying one of the largest Taylor selections in the Atlas, deep in One-of-a-Kind custom builds, Gold Label, and the flagship 800-series line, with recent stock reaching into the high five figures. The boutique acoustic floor extends well past Taylor — a strong Santa Cruz shelf, Martin and Gibson acoustics, and the occasional Collings — alongside an active used and consignment trade. For Taylor shoppers especially, Haggerty's is a genuine destination, and a rare high-end acoustic stop in the northern Plains.
