Lowden Guitars
2020 Lowden Wee WL-35 12-Fret Acoustic Guitar - Used
2020 · Listed by Gryphon Stringed Instruments · Palo Alto, CA
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Specs
- Top
- Cedar
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Walnut
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Wee
- Scale length
- 24.25"
- Nut width
- 1.75"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2020
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 Gryphon Stringed Instruments
Gryphon Stringed Instruments began in a Palo Alto garage in 1969, building steel-string guitars, F-style mandolins, and banjo necks. Repair work overtook luthiery by 1972, and a 1973 storefront made the retail-plus-repair shift permanent. The shop also runs as a longstanding music school — Carol McComb's Folk Guitar Workshops anchor an instruction calendar that operates alongside the retail floor. Mainstays remain acoustic guitars, mandolins, and banjos, with a deliberate share of the catalog given to small companies and individual makers, and no commissioned sales staff.
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