Lowden Guitars
S-34 Koa & Sitka Spruce
Listed at Matchetts Music · Belfast, Northern Ireland
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Matchetts Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Matchetts Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- S
- Scale length
- 25.59"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
About 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.
About Matchetts Music
Matchetts Music is a family-owned shop in central Belfast, ninety years old in 2026. Stanley Matchett opened the original storefront on Wellington Place in 1936; the building was lost during the Troubles in the 1970s, and the business was acquired in 1979 by Derek and Ann Crowther, whose son Neil and daughter Tamara now run it a few doors down on the same street. They sell the full breadth of musical instruments — guitars through drums through brass through pianos — but for boutique-acoustic players, the distinguishing feature is their Lowden room: Matchetts is Lowden's home-region authorized stockist, the closest dealer to where the guitars are built, with Original, 35, and 50 Series instruments typically on the floor.