Instruments

Body: American Alder

Neck: Maple

Scale Length: 25.5″/648mm

Neck Pickup: Fret-King nickel covered double coil.

Bridge Pickup: tapped single coil alnico

Controls: Volume & tone/Vari-coil dual concentric knob, 3-way lever

“The dual concentric tone/Vari-coil control pot rolls the Fret-King 3+3 neck double coil down to neck single coil. Now, flick the selector switch down to the flat pole piece bridge pickup, and the Vari-coil will take you from authentic vintage ’52 `Nashville Snap’ to a creamy, focused single coil sound with enhanced mids and increased power.”

Comes with Original Luxury Gig Bag

$695

 

 

Body: American Alder

Neck: Maple

Scale Length: 25.5″/648mm

Neck Pickup: Fret-King nickel covered double coil.

Bridge Pickup: tapped single coil alnico

Controls: Volume & tone/Vari-coil dual concentric knob, 3-way lever

“The dual concentric tone/Vari-coil control pot rolls the Fret-King 3+3 neck double coil down to neck single coil. Now, flick the selector switch down to the flat pole piece bridge pickup, and the Vari-coil will take you from authentic vintage ’52 `Nashville Snap’ to a creamy, focused single coil sound with enhanced mids and increased power.”

Comes with Original Luxury Gig Bag

$695

Top: Solid Sitka Spruce

Back/Sides: Rosewood Laminate

Neck: Mahogany

Bridge: Rosewood

Binding/Bevel: Flame Maple

Nut/Saddle: Bone

Scale Length: 25.5″

Pickup: Fishman PRESYS+

$999

Here’s another made in Canada, handbuilt beauty. It really sings. Fingerpicker’s dream.
This guitar has one of the most clear voices we’ve heard in a guitar, plenty of volume especially for its small size.

Top – Solid Cedar

Body – Cocobolo

Fingerboard – Ebony

Bridge – Ebony

Bridge Pins – Ebony

Nut – Bone

Saddle – Bone

Body Style – OO

 

 

Typically tuned either A-Standard or B-Standard, and sometimes C-Standard, between the ranges of a standard 6-string guitar and a bass, the baritone guitar brings a versatile and unique tone to your palette. Great for rich rhythm parts and beefy riffs, yet also high enough in range to play melodies and leads.

$949

Top: Solid Sitka Spruce

Back/Sides: Mahogany

Body Shape: Jumbo

Neck: Mahogany

Bridge: Rosewood

Fingerboard: Rosewood

Nut: 1-7/8″ – Bone

Scale Length: 27-1/2″

Electronics: Fishman ISYS+

Top – Solid Spruce

Back and Sides –  Solid Flamed Maple

Neck –  Maple

Fingerboard – Ebony

Bridge – Ebony

Saddle – Ebony

Pickup – K&K Mandolin Twin

Controls – N/A

Tuners – Geared Tuners

Nut – Bone

Nut Width –  1 3/32″

Scale Length – 13 7/8″

Case Included – Eastman Gig Bag

$1,799

 

The AR405E Eastman’s top tier of their pressed top arch-tops

Features

Top: Laminated Maple

Neck Material: 3 Piece Maple

Fingerboard: Rosewood

Scale Length: 25″

Finish: Nitrocellulose

Neck Pickup: Cream Kent Armstrong P90

Hardshell Case Included

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$1,199

 

                           

Exceptional craftsmanship on a fantastically responsive and expressive instrument

Made in Cremona, Italy by Wolfgang Kury in the year 2000

Accompanied by a written appraisal of $27,000 from Luthier Geza Burkhardt

Viola Excellent Condition, Case Good Condition

Top – Spruce

Back and Sides – Flamed Maple

Neck – Flamed Maple

Body Size – 16.5″

Case – Bam Viola

$12,000 REDUCED TO $10,000

                                                                      

Handmade gypsy jazz guitar from San Antonio, TX getting a few details addressed then on the wall for sale!

This is the first tier of Eastman arch-tops featuring an all solid, hand-carved top.

Hand-carved solid Spruce top

Flame Maple back and sides

3-piece Maple neck

Ebony on Brass tailpiece

Kent Armstrong HPAG-1 neck pickup

Gotoh Tuners

Nitrocellulose finish

Fitted Hardshell case included

 

$1,649

What a gem! This guitar has been gently used by its single previous owner. The solid spruce top doesn’t have a single crack, which is very rare for a solid top of this vintage. The fingerboard appears to be Brazilian Rosewood, a wood you won’t be seeing much of nowadays, but was definitely used in many instruments from this era.

Original hardware and electronics are all in working order. The neck is beefy and in great shape, no truss-rod. We’ve made a new bone nut and lightened up the bridge a bit, which we find will almost always open up the sound and produce more volume. Other than that there was a few hours of buffing out the top to its original sheen and a little bit of set-up and she’s off to the races!

 

SOLD

Made on Saltspring Island in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia by long-time instrument maker Grant Wickland, with some additional work/customization done by our luthiers here at Mountain Fruit. These include replacing the synthetic head with a real skin one and changing the strings over to nylon, as well as some refining of the neck profile to take comfort and playability to the next level.

So far we have never been disappointed with the improvement in tone that a real goat skin head brings to a banjo.

The nylon strings and the fretless neck give access to micro-tone playing and slides in a very mellow and lyrical tone, but this instrument still plenty of the volume and clarity that banjo players love. This banjo certainly stimulates a new approach to playing banjo!

• Maple-Ebony-Maple three-piece neck
• Ebony fretboard
• Wickland custom-made bridge
• Goat Skin Head
• 11″ Pot
• Grover tuners

$995

The builders over at Cordoba are putting out some very musical ukes, aesthetically pleasing, easy to play, they intonate properly, hold their tuning.
This is their very beautiful 25C, Concert Ukulele in solid Acacia Wood. A very warm, clear, and inviting tone. With the great diversity of each specimen of Acacia, every one of these ukes is uniquely beautiful.

Nut – Bone

Saddle – Bone

Strings – Aquila Nylgut

 

Can’t you just imagine yourself on stage with this beauty?

 

$329

Here at Mountain Fruit we have been counting on Teton for a number of our price-point models. To find solid-top instruments of this quality and in this price range used to be almost unheard of!

$499

Left to Right:

• Morgan Dreadnaught Cutaway with case, Solid Sitka Spruce top, Brazilian Rosewood back/sides, hand built in Vancouver, British Columbia. $3500
• “Almost-Vintage” 1983 Washburn with case, either a Hawk or Falcon model. Push/Pull knobs change high output MMK Humbuckers into Single-Coil. $699
• 1890 Oswald Schaller 4/4 Violin with case, Frankfurt Germany. $1500
• Yamaha Classical with case, CGX171CCA, internal microphone and pickup. $599

Here’s a really fun and interesting experiment inspired in part by the mandolin’s larger cousin the Octave Mandolin. We took a 16″ Viola and set it up with special strings from Sensicore to be played in GDAE tuning an octave below a standard violin. The result is a very robust and rich cello-like timbre that is nothing short of satisfying. An excellent choice for accompaniment, regular fiddle music and fingerings can be used and will sound an octave down.

You can expect to see some further experimentation in this realm from us in the near future. As a broad spectrum of timbre and responsiveness is available by playing with string guage, string length, body size, rosin and bow selection. Who has time to be bored?

It is now becoming common for guitar builders to be incorporating a bevel on their guitars for the picking arm to comfortably rest on. The idea is gainging ground as more and more people are getting the chance to play guitars with the arm-bevel. But hardly any factory built guitars out there are incorporating this feature. Enter this new model Teton Grand Concert. Here we have a guitar that sounds exceptional for it’s price range, with a Solid Sitka Spruce top and Rosewood back and sides. The fingerboard, bridge and bridge pins are also made of Rosewood and it comes with a factory-installed Fishman Presys+ active pickup system.

 

Check out the full specs here.

Teton has done a remarkable job hitting the price point on this one. The solid sitka spruce top and 12-fret neck join, along with the ebony (laminate) back and sides make for a very appealing instrument, both tonally and visually. Not to mention a bit of bling with the abalone rosette around the sound hole. I think you’d be hard pressed to find another parlour of this quality for anywhere near this price. The bass-response on the STP180DVB is remarkable for a body this small, due largely to the 12-fret body design and excellent tone wood selection, without any compromise to the upper register. A great choice for the detailed finger-style player.

 I just can’t get over how beautiful those blonde/rosey streaks in the ebony are.

 

Here we’ve got a functional Tabla set of both larger and smaller Bayan and Dayan. They appear to be hand-beaten copper. Of unknown origin though most likely from India as anyone hammering out the copper bodies by hand and making an authentic looking instrument here in North America would be asking a fair penny for them.
Syahi (black pad on the skin) on the smaller “Dayan” is showing some wear. A couple of Gatta (tuning dowels) are missing from larger “Bayan”. Although we don’t usually see them on the Bayan at all. There is definitely a bit of maintenance that would need to be done to put them into prime playing condition, as you might expect from a Tabla set at this price. Though from what we can tell these are very serviceable instruments that are not in need of anything drastic.

An excellent opportunity for somebody wanting to explore the music of India

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A “Strumstick” or as the builder of this one called his a “Strumjo”, is an adaptation of the Appalachian lap dulcimer. It is a simple yet charming instrument with only three strings (tuned GDG) and fewer frets than our friends the guitar and ukulele. What this does is take away the possibility of playing a wrong note. You’ve only got notes that are in the scale. Whew! The downside of this, and of course there’s a downside, is that the instrument is restricted to playing almost exclusively in the key of G major. Although by creatively avoiding certain notes and highlighting others you could pull off D and C major.

It is an excellent starting point for children or people with no musical background who want to bring a little music into their lives. Also it’s light, compact design make it an excellent choice for the musician-on-the-go not wanting to take their Vintage Guild or Martin camping or hitchhiking. And the extremely adventurous can explore retuning the high string to access all sorts of different scales. for example dropping the high string one whole step allows for playing in minor keys.

 

Featuring a solid Sitka Spruce top with Maple back and sides, this jumbo bodied acoustic bass has a full, clear tone throughout it’s range. The action is great and very playable all the way up the neck. Cutaway gives you access to the 20th fret. Includes Fishman ISYS+ pickup.

Case not included

Another stunning Morgan guitar on consignment! This guitar was hand-built in Vancouver BC. Superb attention to detail has been put into every aspect of this fine instrument. It has a solid sitka spruce top and South American mahogany back and sides. A fitted hardshell case is included.

Functional (more than a toy) kids 1/2 size steel string guitar, price is right!

Talk about a lot of guitar for the money. This guitar has a smooth playing neck and a very versatile sound. It comes with some very smooth Grover tuning heads. And after setting it up personally we are proud to be stocking this instrument!