The bright and smooth tone combined with the string spacing makes this the ultimate fingerpicker's guitar.
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Condition: Used, Excellent
Lightly built but powerful, this S-25 is exemplary of George Lowden's handiwork. This gorgeous guitar's appointments are warm and literally woody: Check the rosette and purfling composed of sycamore, walnut, mahogany and rosewood, set against the high-grade cedar top and rosewood back and sides. The instrument's sound complements the visual aesthetic while contradicting its compact size. Focused bottom end, bright mids and ringing treble indeed make this a fabulous fingerpicking guitar, but the cedar top also possesses enough headroom to allow for plentiful clarity and balance for strumming. The slim, wide neck combines modern comfort with vintage feel, and its super-short scale and flat fingerboard makes expressive bends dreamily easy.
SP Luthier Notes: Block Frets
The 25 was often thought of as THE Lowden. Nowadays with many more new models it is not possible to say which would be THE Lowden, but the 25 has character in bags. It is rich, full-bodied, warm and powerful.
The Original Series was the very first Lowden range from 1976, just as the ‘O’ model is George’s original Lowden body design. Although the medium sized ‘F’ and concert sized ‘S’ have been added to the range since then, the Lowden standard of passionate commitment to no compromise was well and truly set.
Handmade flattop acoustic guitars by renowned luthier George Lowden.
Model: S-25
Serial: 25073
Tonewood Grade: AAA
Soundboard: Cedar
Bracing: "Dolphin" Profile / Lowden Voicing
Back and Sides: Indian Rosewood
Rosette: Rosewood, Sycamore, Walnut, Mahogany
Binding: Mahogany
Purfling: Rosewood, Sycamore, Walnut, Mahogany
Tuners: Gotoh SG381 Gold with Ebony Buttons
Bridge: Rosewood
Neck: 5-Piece Mahogany/Rosewood
Fingerboard: Ebony
Fingerboard Binding: Ebony
Nut & Saddle Material: Bone
Custom Options:
Neck Width at Nut: 1 3/4"
Neck Width at 14th Fret: 2 1/4"
Soundbox Width: 374 mm
Soundbox Depth: 105 mm
Scale Length: 24 1/8" (630mm)
Electronics: None
Case: Lowden Hardshell
Thomas Leeb, Acoustic Fingerstyle master, plays "Jump" by Van Halen live at the Lowden Guitars booth at Winter NAMM 2010. Check out our other Lowden video from NAMM for more details on George Lowden's latest guitars.
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