Gallagher Guitars
Gallagher Bluegrass Bell - Grand Auditorium Size Guitar - New
Listed by Jake's Main Street Music · Beacon, NY
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Torrefied
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Ga
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1.6875"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
About Gallagher Guitars
Gallagher Guitars has built handmade flattop acoustics in Wartrace, Tennessee since J.W. Gallagher made his first one in 1965. The shop became internationally known after Doc Watson took home a G-50 in 1969 — the instrument he came to call "Ol' Hoss" — and played it on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 Will The Circle Be Unbroken, the recording where Merle Travis said it "rings like a bell." The company has passed through three generations of Gallaghers and, since 2019, has been carried forward by David and Reina Mathis using the same patterns, molds, and jigs J.W. built. Production stays small — about three months and 70 to 80 hours of bench work per guitar, with the same workmanship across every model regardless of trim level.
About Jake's Main Street Music
Main Street Music is a small Beacon, New York shop run by Jacob Bernz and his Grammy-winning father David Bernz, opened in 2013 a few doors from the Town Crier Cafe — one of the East Coast's longest-running acoustic music venues. Both owners are working acoustic musicians, and they treat the shop as a community gathering place as much as a retail store, hosting story nights, pub sings, and concerts alongside the inventory. Setups and repairs are run by Joseph Dibisceglie (formerly of Imperial Guitar and Sound) in a relaxed sit-and-try-it atmosphere across new, used, vintage, and consigned instruments. Their boutique acoustic shelves anchor on Collings, Santa Cruz, Lowden, Bourgeois, Larrivée, and Huss & Dalton.
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