Lowden Guitars

2018 Lowden 0-35 Honduran Rosewood Acoustic Guitar - Used

2018 · Listed at Gryphon Stringed Instruments · Palo Alto, CA

Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Gryphon Stringed Instruments’ site.

$3,850

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Specs

Top
Sitka Spruce
Back / Sides
Honduran Rosewood
Neck
Mahogany
Fingerboard
Ebony
Body shape
0
Scale length
25.5"
Nut width
1 3/4"
Frets to body
14
Strings
6
Cutaway
No
Condition
Preowned
Year
2018

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.

Gryphon Stringed Instruments

Gryphon Stringed Instruments began in a Palo Alto garage in 1969, building steel-string guitars, F-style mandolins, and banjo necks. Repair work overtook luthiery by 1972, and a 1973 storefront made the retail-plus-repair shift permanent. The shop also runs as a longstanding music school — Carol McComb's Folk Guitar Workshops anchor an instruction calendar that operates alongside the retail floor. Mainstays remain acoustic guitars, mandolins, and banjos, with a deliberate share of the catalog given to small companies and individual makers, and no commissioned sales staff.

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