Lowden Guitars
Pierre Bensusan "Old Lady" Signature Model Guitar
Listed at Acoustic Vibes Music · Tempe, AZ
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Acoustic Vibes Music’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Western Red Cedar
- Back / Sides
- Cuban Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Jumbo / SJ
- Scale length
- 25.6"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- 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.
Acoustic Vibes Music
Acoustic Vibes Music is based in Tempe, Arizona, with a wide catalog spanning boutique builders alongside more accessible lines. Inside their boutique acoustic section sits a steady rotation of Bourgeois, Collings, Atkin, Furch, Larrivée, and Lowden — a meaningful presence in the high-end Western US market.
