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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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