PRS
Private Stock Tonare Grand European Spruce & Madagascar Rosewood - Natural (471)
Listed at Lark Guitars · San Antonio, TX · Dealer ref #5406
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Lark Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- European Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Madagascar Rosewood
- Neck
- Peruvian Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Tonare
- Scale length
- 25.25"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
About PRS
PRS Guitars come out of Stevensville, Maryland — a 420-employee shop better known for electrics, with an acoustic line that's been quietly running since 2009. Paul Reed Smith founded the company in Annapolis in 1985, peddling early prototypes to touring guitarists backstage (Carlos Santana and Al Di Meola both said yes), and grew it into the third-largest US electric guitar maker. The acoustic side came out of a specific engineering theory: an acoustic guitar should behave like a speaker cabinet, with back and sides braced down and the top freed via a hybrid X/classical bracing pattern Paul derived after studying a Torres nylon-string. The result is three shapes — the Angelus Cutaway, the Tonare Grand, and the Tonare Parlor — that project boldly and sound articulate, balanced, and unmistakably engineered. Seventeen years in, the acoustic line remains a small fraction of PRS output and an unusually thoughtful one.
About Lark Guitars
Lark Guitars is an independent shop in San Antonio, Texas, with a heavily-electric core inventory and a smaller, carefully chosen boutique acoustic side. The owner-and-staff vibe shows up the moment you walk in; their acoustic shelves lean toward a curated set of Lowdens, Collings, and Santa Cruzes rather than a sprawling catalog. A friendly local shop with high-end taste.
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