Lowden Guitars
F-23 Natural (Pre-Owned, Circa 2015, EC)
2015 · Listed at Guitar Village · Farnham, England · Dealer ref #19490
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Guitar Village’s site.
$4,008 USD
£2,999 GBP
Last seen 23h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Guitar Village’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Cedar
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Grand Auditorium
- Scale length
- 25.59"
- Nut width
- 1.7717"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2015
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.
Guitar Village
Guitar Village has traded from West Street in Farnham, Surrey, for more than 30 years: well over a thousand guitars across 15 demo rooms in a 15th-century building on the Surrey–Hampshire border, 45 minutes from London, with two more restored period rooms and a Vintage Guitar Gallery. Every member of staff plays guitar — a condition of working there — and the shop describes the feel it aims for as a "homely ambience". The boutique acoustic shelf is Atkin and Bourgeois alongside Martin and Taylor, plus a vintage and rare section; they sell worldwide through the website.
