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Condition: Used, Excellent
You gotta love these models from Bourgeois, a classic design equipped with modern conveniences. This OM size guitar has a big enough sound to tussle with all but the best of dreadnoughts!
The Aged Tone top provides the power and clarity you've come to know and love about Adirondack spruce, with the holy grail of tonewoods to back it up and shape the tone into a perfect balance.
From Bourgeois Guitars
Dana Bourgeois says: “Many years ago, inspired by Eric Schoenberg, I built what I believe was the first OM having a style of cutaway that has since become something of a modern classic. Eric and I later founded a company to produce the new model, which we named "The Soloist", after an elegant fingerstyle guitar from the Victorian era. The Bourgeois Soloist is a true fingerstyle OM, featuring a European spruce top, Brazilian rosewood back and sides, a 2 5/16" ebony pyramid bridge, and the original Soloist style cutaway. Maintaining the spirit of the original Soloist, I combined the finest woods with the simplest of appointments, including Ziricote body bindings, simple wooden rosette, short pattern slotted squares and diamonds inlay, and a distinctive slotted triangle on the heel cap. While on the subject of decoration, I should note that the marquetry backstrip that I first designed for the Soloist (and now use on many of my guitars) has been as widely emulated, and is presently available through a number of lutherie suppliers. Far from being offended, I am delighted by the notion that other luthiers have mistaken this for vintage design!"
Model: OMC Soloist
Serial: 7429
Top: Aged Tone Adirondack Top
Back & Sides: Brazilian Rosewood
Scale Length: Long
Rosette: Wood
Backstrip: Arrowhead
Endpiece Inlay: Body Wood
Body Binding: Ziricote
Purfling: Maple/Black/Maple - Maple- Black/White/Black
Head Shape: Diamond
Head Veneer: Brazilian Rosewood
Head Inlay: Mother of Pearl Bourgeois Logo
Head Binding: None
Fretboard Wood: Ebony
Fretboard Inlay: Short Patter Slotted Squares and Diamonds
Fretboard Binding: Black
Nut Width: 1 3/4"
Heel Cap: Triangle Heel Inlay
Tuners: Gold Plated Waverly w/ Ebony Buttons
Bridge: Ebony Pyramid Bridge
Pins: Antique Walrus Fossil Ivory
Pickguard: None
Pickup: None
Label: Standard
Glue: Hide
Neck Finish: Aged Tone
Headstock Finish: Aged Tone
Body Finish: Aged Tone
Top Color: Natural
Cutaway: Yes
Options:
Case: Hardshell
Warranty
This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.
Returns
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