CLASSICAL AND CLASSIC ELECTRIC GUITARS
This icon means that a color photo for this instrument is available online. Click on it to view the photo. If you want us to send you a color photo of any instrument that is not online, give us a holler via email. 78-7635 C F Martin (used, 1967) model 00-18C Classical #219277, in solidly excellent condition, with a newer alligator-type hard shell case.
This guitar conforms to the standard description of this nylon string, slothead, 12-fret instrument of this period. It is remarkably free of standard signs of use and wear showing only the most minor signs such as chipped finish around the headstock, a scratch on the back that the owner deeply regrets. It has the smaller C F Martin & Co. gold decal on the front of the Brazilian rosewood headplate veneer, original tuners with ivoroid buttons, a Brazilian rosewood fretboard and oblong bridge, a three ring soundhole rosette, a white nut that may not be bone, a moderately low bridge saddle. The action is moderate – certainly within limits for classical playing, but there is no further adjustability at the bridge. The top is bordered in very thin black-white four-ply, the sides in black. There are crème side dots on the bass side of the neck, which measures 2” at the nut and the string spacing is 2 ¼” at the bridge. The scale length is approximately 25 1/3”. The top is more of a matte finish from hand contact while the sides and back are more glossy; there is incipient seam sinkage under the bridge which might not ever open. Our shop has performed a set-up and restring and it is good for another hundred years (or so). $1850 or, at our cash discount price, $1795.
76-8056 Guild (new) GAD-5N, #GAD33043, with hard shell case.
The Guild List is $1231.99 and the Guild MAP is $850.
76-8006 and 78-8005 Guild (new) GAD-4N, #GAD34609 and GAD26093, each with hard shell case.
For each guitar the Guild List is $1119.99 and the Guild MAP is $780.
78-7875 and 78-7874 Guild (new) GAD-N5, #GAD22979 and #GAD30198, each in Natural, with hard shell case.
Cutaway with a factory-provided pickup inside and featuring a highly colored wood marquetry soundhole rosette and a wooden back stripe. Guild now makes exceptional classical guitars at a most affordable price – comprising a considerable bargain. For each guitar the Guild List is $1231.99 and the Guild MAP and our Discount Price is just $850.
78-7779 Renaissance (new) RN6H-STD #08-2801.
Rick Turner's legendary Santa Cruz-based company makes this amazing-sounding electric Nylon Hybrid, with a zipper gigbag. $2,273 at our Discount Price, or $2,205 at our Cash Discount Price.
78-7129 Cordoba (new) Model 55RCE, #90392, with plush lined hard shell case.
The Cordoba List is $1845 but the Cordoba MAP and our Discount Price is $1360.
78-7122 (sold) and 78-7121 Guild (new) GAD-N5 Classical Guitar, #GAD26390 and GAD23425, each with hard shell case.
The Guild List is $1099.99 and our Cash Discount Price is $825.
78-7831 and 78-7380 Guild (new) GAD-C1 Classical guitar, #GAD28952, with hard shell case.
For each guitar the Guild List is $783.99 and our Cash Discount Price is $571.
78-7382 (and 78-7383) Guild (new) GAD-C2 Classical guitar, #GAD30189, with hard shell case.
For each guitar the Guild List is $963.19 and our Cash Discount Price is $670.
78-7365 Renaissance (Rick Turner) (new) RN6-Std. nylon string chambered electric guitar, #082758, with a zipper gigbag.
Your cost for one of the finest sounding nylon string guitars in the known universe, is $2273 or, at our cash discount price, $2205.
78-7057 C F Martin (new) BackPacker Classic, nylon string, #187587, with a zipper gigbag.
The Martin List is $299 and our Discount Price is $231 with a Cash Discount Price of $224.
AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald in September 2007, by Susan Blasko, reads “Day Four: The search for a new guitar continues. This time Ben and I catch the ferry to Staten Island to find a legendary shop called Mandolin Bros. We drift past the Statue of Liberty on this beautiful, clear day. It takes us a little while to find the shop but the search is worth the wait – a huge selection of new and vintage guitars. I get caught up in the magic of the place and buy a Martin nylon-string guitar from 1962. It is only the second guitar I’ve ever bought and I walk proudly down the street with it in my hand.
15-6417 Loriente (new) Clarita Model classical guitar, #91221MB, with hard shell case.
Antonio Loriente is one of the best deals we know of in a Spanish-made classical guitar. This guitar, even though modest in price, is beautiful in ways both overt and subtle. The top, for example, is bordered in four plies of colored wood purfling, the soundhole in twenty-one plies of black, crème and brown wood with a center circle of repeating diamonds made up of 6 light colored dots and one red center dot. The bridge is a rectangle of polished East Indian rosewood with enough black streaking to make one think “Brazilian;” the fretboard is ebony, the headplate East Indian, the backstripe might be maple, the tuners are high quality gold-plated with floral-etched plates and pearloid buttons. Each side is bordered in what may be maple. This is a hand-made classical of a high order, and one whose sound will bring you back to the warm sun and fresh breezes of Old Espana, the cradle of its illustrious birth. The List Price is $2085, and the Manufacturer’s MAP price is $1730. However you may call or email and we’ll share our actual pricing with you.
15-5858 Renaissance (new) RN6-Standard chambered electric nylon-string guitar, #072438, with zipper gigbag.
$2065 or, at our cash discount price, $2003.
15-5858 Rick Turner “Renaissance” Model RN6-Std, #07-2438, with Renaissance zipper gigbag.
The RN-6 Standard is the matte finish, walnut and cedar guitar. We consider the guitars of Rick Turner, boy genius, to be magical; in a class all their own. That pickup and preamp that he invented is thunderously powerful – it sounds like no other pickup we have heard; it makes a nylon string guitar sound as room filling as a pipe organ. Call for price.
RODRIGUEZ CLASSICAL GUITARS: We have a supply of exactly 2 Rodriguez guitars, each a cutaway with pickup, which we have always found to be good quality, affordable and reliable, but unfortunately we cannot order any more of them since Rodriguez has disassociated from its former US distributor, the Fender Guitar Corporation. They are, for some reason that we cannot fathom, no longer offering their guitars to independent US dealers. We hope that they will reconsider this short-sighted decision.
The two we have are:48-3946 Rodriguez (new) BCE, with hard shell case.
NOW ON SALE. Rodriguez (new) Model BCE Classical cutaway w/pickup, XN1862. Was $1341. Now ON SALE for $1232 at our discount price, or at our cash discount price $1195.
43-0630 Rodriguez (new) CCE, with hard shell case.
Now on sale. Rodriguez (new) Model C Cutaway Classical guitar, with pickup, #0502, with a touched up cosmetic blemish on the face. WAS $1497. Now on Sale for $1335 or, at our cash discount price $1295.
CLASSICAL, CUTAWAY WITH PICKUP:
48-3974 Rick Turner’s slim-bodied American walnut sides & back spruce top Renaissance "Hybrid," #05-2247 -- an exceptional design in a nylon string, chambered electric guitar with the 1 3/4" nut width, with it’s own sleeping bag.
It has the special preamp inside it designed by Rick Turner, who not only built this guitar, but also, in the past, co-founded Highlander Pickups (one of the finest in the world). His new preamp takes two 9v batteries and produces a sound so full, rich and dense that you may feel that you've become "one" with the instrument. It overwhelms the mind - it's so good sounding, and it plays beyond effortlessly. Quite a marvelous toy, as Tom Paxton says, and one that can, used judiciously, make a career. Call for price.
83-3278 Lowden (new) S-32J, electric-acoustic cutaway nylon string, 13419, with hard shell case.
One of our most favorite cutaway nylon strings of this type, the Lowden Guitar Company of Newtontards, Northern Ireland, this magnificently finished, choicest woods and workmanship instrument was designed for jazz use but it is right at home in the folk, singer-songwriter and pseudo-classical contexts as well. We love these things.
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