Lowden Guitars
O-32C Original Series Cutaway Acoustic Guitar, 2005 [USED]
Listed at The Twelfth Fret · Toronto, ON
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Twelfth Fret’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Twelfth Fret’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- 5 Piece
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- O
- Scale length
- 25.6"
- Nut width
- 1.76"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
About Lowden Guitars
Lowden Guitars come from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland — a small town and a fifty-year obsession. George Lowden started building in 1974 and spent decades refining a voice that sounds like nothing else in the acoustic world: shimmering, layered, with sustain that seems to keep going long after a chord should have settled. Lowden became the fingerstyle player's shorthand long before Ed Sheeran put one on every stage; Pierre Bensusan, Eric Roche, and Alex de Grassi all spoke about Lowdens the way other players talk about their first car. The mystique is partly the geography, partly the sound, and entirely real.
About The Twelfth Fret
The Twelfth Fret has been a Toronto institution since 1977, when Grant MacNeill and Dan Charman opened it on Kingston Road; they moved to their current east-end Danforth Avenue building in 2000. The shop describes itself as "instrument builders who also sell guitars" — a six-luthier workshop is the spine of the business, and the retail catalog grew around it. Boutique acoustics arrived in the 1990s, and today's catalog leans heavy on Canadian-made Boucher and Larrivée Master Series alongside Collings, Huss & Dalton, Lowden, and Bourgeois — a rare in-person destination for Quebec and Ontario boutique builds.
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