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A lovely little Victorian Parlor from Bourgeois Guitars.
$6,200.00
Retail: $8,899.00
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Condition: Used, Excellent
Are you hunting for something really different? Are you tired of big, boomy bluegrass cannons with suspension-bridge string tension? Well, my friend, here's the guitar for you. Bourgeois's Victorian "Piccolo" Parlor hearkens back to the Martin Size 3 guitar, a model from well before the dreadnought and the OM were apples in Martin's eye. It boasts elegant era-correct appointments, most notably the half-herringbone purfling and marquetry. The guitar's sonic strengths lay in its warm mids and nylon-like response, thanks largely to the aged Adirondack spruce top, but it also shows off the character of its Madagascar rosewood back and sides with plucky bass and airy treble. Despite the incredibly compact footprint, it still has a scale length of 25", slotting it right between familiar Martin and Gibson scales, and it feels loose yet reactive under the fingers. All things considered, it's a remarkable blend of an archaic, nearly-forgotten design and state-of-the-art know-how.
SP Luthier Notes: Neck Reset, General Fret and Fingerboard Cleanup, Block Frets
From the Victorian Parlor to the recording studio, performance arena, or your own pickin’ parlor.
Modern guitars were not simply created out of thin air in the 1930s. They evolved from the instruments that preceded them, bearing improvements such as longer necks, solid head stocks, larger bodies, higher string tension, greater volume and superior presence. Our Victorian model is a tip of the hat to an elegant, long lost pre-pre-war aesthetic that deserved to survive into the modern era, featuring half-herringbone (also know as “rope”) purfling, Ivoroid binding and a once-common pyramid bridge.
Model: Parlor Victorian
Serial: 9338
Top: Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce
Back & Sides: Madagascar Rosewood
Scale Length: 25"
Rosette: Rope Style
Backstrip: Arrowhead
Endpiece Inlay: Floating Box Body Wood
Body Binding: Ziricote
Purfling: Half Herringbone (Rope) with Back & Sides
Head Shape: Small Square Headstock with Diamond
Head Veneer: Ziricote
Head Inlay: Mother of Pearl Bourgeois Logo
Head Binding: None
Fretboard Wood: Ebony
Fretboard Inlay: Short Pattern Slotted Squares & Diamonds
Fretboard Binding: Black
Nut Width: 1 3/4"
Heel Cap: Ziricote
Tuners: Waverly Nickel with Ebony Knobs
Bridge: 2 5/16" Ebony Small Pyramid
Pins: Bone with Black Dots
Pickguard: None
Pickup: None
Label: Standard
Glue: Standard
Neck Finish: Satin
Headstock Finish: High Gloss
Body Finish: High Gloss
Top Color: Natural
Cutaway: None
Case: Hardshell