PRS
Tonare Grand Cocobolo Adirondack 2011
2011 · Listed at The Fellowship of Acoustics · Dedemsvaart, Overijssel
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Fellowship of Acoustics’ site.
Was$9,098 USD
$8,182 USD
€7,059 EUR
Last seen 1d ago on dealer site
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Cocobolo
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Tonare
- Scale length
- 25.375"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2011
PRS
PRS Guitars come out of Stevensville, Maryland — a 420-employee shop better known for electrics, with an acoustic line that's been quietly running since 2009. Paul Reed Smith founded the company in Annapolis in 1985, peddling early prototypes to touring guitarists backstage (Carlos Santana and Al Di Meola both said yes), and grew it into the third-largest US electric guitar maker. The acoustic side came out of a specific engineering theory: an acoustic guitar should behave like a speaker cabinet, with back and sides braced down and the top freed via a hybrid X/classical bracing pattern Paul derived after studying a Torres nylon-string. The result is three shapes — the Angelus Cutaway, the Tonare Grand, and the Tonare Parlor — that project boldly and sound articulate, balanced, and unmistakably engineered. Seventeen years in, the acoustic line remains a small fraction of PRS output and an unusually thoughtful one.
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The Fellowship of Acoustics
The Fellowship of Acoustics (TFOA) is a destination acoustic shop in Dedemsvaart, eastern Netherlands, run by Rudi Bults and his family since 2001 — what started as a barn-side business has grown into one of Europe's largest specialty guitar shops, housed since 2015 in a former town hall ("Villa Dina") that holds upwards of a thousand guitars. From the start, TFOA bet on selling worldwide in English from a small Dutch town, focused entirely on quality handmade instruments rather than mass-market volume. The villa houses retail, a luthier workshop with their "Gold Standard" setup and a PLEK machine for precision fret work, plus a small theatre and a music school under the same roof. Their boutique acoustic shelves run deep on Bourgeois, Collings, Santa Cruz, Lowden, Furch, Goodall, and Huss & Dalton, alongside a strong vintage and consigned catalog.