Overview: Joshia de Jonge's exceptional concert instruments are a magnificent example of refined
musicality, materials, and craft - simply put, musical and physical masterpieces. Her guitars combine
northern European traditional tonal beauty with the quick response and
laser-like projection of the most successful, innovative contemporary
guitars.
Description: 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.
Joahia de Jonge writes: "My Maple 100th Anniversary double top guitar has a fingerboard made from Ironwood from my husband Pat's family farm. The farm has been in his family for over seven generations. Pat cut the tree down several years ago and then cut fingerboard blanks from that tree. The back, sides, and top of my guitar are all laminated with eastern white cedar. My father and I visited a local sawmill about an hour north of my shop, and went through many boards to select some nice light colored quarter sawn cedar boards. I wanted all the woods in this guitar to be light colored. The back and sides are European maple, and the top is Swiss 'moon' spruce laminated with the same eastern white cedar."
Guitar
number 100 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: Swiss "moon" spruce/Nomex/eastern white cedar double top construction with tornavoz; Joshia de
Jonge's proprietary all wood grid pattern bracing system; European maple sides and back laminated with eastern white cedar, maple head veneer; elevated ironwood fingerboard with
twentieth fret extending under strings 1,2, and 3; "V" graft head to
neck joint; sound port with magnetic maple cover;
new proprietary Anniversary Model mosaic rosette and soundboard periphery
marquetry; custom Rodgers tuning machine heads with sterling silver sideplates
incorporating Joshia de Jonge's head stock crest ends, Anniversary Model
leaf pattern engraving, and cream colored rollers with roller bearings and light colored mop oval buttons; French
polish of shellac finish; 650mm string length, and Visesnot Active Series hardshell case.