Lowden Guitars
USED Lowden F-35, Acoustic Guitar
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
- Redwood
- Back / Sides
- Cocobolo
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- F
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
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.
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.
