Overview: These
exceptional concert instruments are a magnificent example of refined
musicality, materials, and craft - simply put, musical and physical masterpieces.
The concert guitars of master guitar maker Joshia de Jonge combine
northern European traditional tonal beauty with the quick response and
laser-like projection of the most successful, innovative contemporary
guitars.
Capable of great flexibility, subtlety, and
power of expression, this player friendly concert guitar possesses a
warm, deep, clear, creamy sound, and a wide palette of color and attack.
Each note is like a polished jewel. Balance is excellent; playability
is also excellent, offering one of the easiest actions and neck contours
around.
Guitar
number 102 includes a small discrete sound port with a magnetized
adjustable port cover which allows the player to temper this
instrument's tonal response to personal preference and individual room
acoustics. Also featured here are Joshia de Jonge's unique vine pattern
mosaic rosette and soundboard periphery marquetry which she designed to
mark the occasion of her 100th guitar. (
Learn more about this classical guitar maker).
Read an in depth interview with master guitar maker Joshia de Jonge in the January/February 2021 issue of
Acoustic Guitar magazine. See also
American Lutherie #137, Summer 2019 for a complementary in depth interview with Joshia de Jonge.
Materials: Cedar/Nomex/cedar double top construction with tornavoz; Joshia de
Jonge's proprietary all wood grid pattern bracing system; CSA sides, back, and head veneer; elevated ebony fingerboard with
twentieth fret extending under strings 1,2, and 3; "V" graft head to
neck joint; sound port with CSA magnetic cover;
new proprietary Anniversary Model mosaic rosette and soundboard periphery
marquetry; Rodgers tuning machine heads with sterling silver sideplates
incorporating Joshia de Jonge's head stock crest ends, Anniversary Model
leaf pattern engraving, and black rollers with roller bearings; French
polish of shellac finish; 640mm string length, and hardshell case.