Lowden Guitars
O-25 - Red Cedar/East Indian Rosewood
Listed at Organic Sounds Select Guitars · Santa Ana, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Organic Sounds Select Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Organic Sounds Select Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Cedar
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- O
- Scale length
- 25.591"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
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.
Organic Sounds Select Guitars
Organic Sounds Select Guitars is Larry and Debbie's family-run shop on N. Tustin Avenue in central Santa Ana, in the heart of Orange County. The shop's name doubles as its philosophy: "the right instrument feels alive in your hands, it feels organic" is the marketing line, and the curation reflects that — a focused, intentional catalog of around 300 instruments rather than a high-volume retail floor. The active boutique acoustic shelf runs deep on Huss & Dalton (one of the deepest H&D inventories in the atlas) and Santa Cruz (vintage 1929-D, Tony Rice signature, 50th Anniversary, and OM-Skye coverage), with rotating Lowden, Goodall, Gallagher, McNally, Olson, Waterloo, Kevin Ryan, Preston Thompson, TreeHouse, and Bourgeois. The storefront also hosts a periodic live concert series featuring touring acoustic players, and the shop is a short drive from the Anaheim Convention Center (home of the winter NAMM show). For Southern California boutique-acoustic shoppers — especially those tracking H&D — Organic Sounds is one of the deepest in-person catalogs in the region.
