Lowden Guitars
F-12 Acoustic Guitar Original Series - Premium Handcrafted Sound
Listed at Music Street · Huntingdon, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Music Street’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Music Street’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- F
- Scale length
- 25.59"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
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.
Music Street
Music Street operates from a Huntingdon storefront in Cambridgeshire, about 70 miles north of London, as a family-run independent founded in 2014 by Tony Rawson — a longtime music-retail manager who came up under Jeff Pumfrett at Machinehead Hitchin. The shop's identity is its in-house luthier bench: every instrument, in-store or online, is set up before it leaves the building, and the floor staff (several ex-Machinehead, all working touring musicians whose credits include Sister Sledge, Tony Hadley, and James Bay) sell on advice rather than commission. The retail floor runs broad across PRS, Patrick James Eggle, Rock n Roll Relics, Fender, Gibson, Martin, and Duesenberg (Music Street is the UK Flagship Duesenberg dealer), with a focused boutique-acoustic shelf anchored by Lowden — F, S, O, and Wee series across multiple appointment tiers, plus rotating Collings, Huss & Dalton, and more.