Instruments

This is a nice example of why you don’t need to spend a thousand plus dollars to get a quality guitar. Aside from the gorgeous flame maple top this guitar has great sounding stock pickups and pots. The sound is really versatile, especially due to the fact that you’ve got a push-pull knob that turns the hum buckers into single-coil. This guitar has been professionally set up by us in the store and we are absolutely confident that this guitar is worth every penny and more.

This small guitar is going to fill a niche that hasn’t really been filled yet.

I haven’t yet found something compact with a larger neck width and scale length that feels like you are finding your way around a std guitar fretboard and this does that quite nicely while having a small but resonant acoustic body. The nut width is just 2mm under a standard classical width and the scale length is 20″ which is joined to the body at the 14th fret.

The Cordoba mini comes in 3 versions: solid spruce top with mahogany back and sides, solid spruce top with indian rosewood back and sides and solid ovangkol top with ovangkol back and sides and they all include a well padded gig bag.

This is certainly more attractive, to me, than the several models of guileles’s or fractional guitars that I carry or have come across elsewhere to date!

The Overture is a three octave hammer dulcimer with a soundboard and back made from Finland Birch. The model we have in stock is finished with a black lacqeur

This package includes: Hammers, Tuning Wrench, Table Leg, Instruction Manual, Padded Bag and Note guide strips.

(Natural Finish pictured)

Fantastic fingerpicking guitar with the unique clarity and versatility of an Adirondack spruce top. This particular guitar and run of 600 are special because Eastman discovered some unused Adirondack spruce cut some 20 years ago! Slightly larger than a parlor model but still has that small, easy to hold body and focused projection.

 

 

Custom Hardshell Case Available for $119.95

Comes with Cordoba Polyfoam Case

Cordoba has long offered good selection in classical guitar sizes, but primarily at the entry level. Their C5 dolce or 7/8 size is popular for smaller folks with smaller hands that still want an instrument with projection and depth. Due to that popularity they have now introduced a higher level guitar of the same dimensions, 630mm string length and 50mm width at the nut vs the 650mm string length and 52mm nut width we find on the 4/4 sized classical. The C10 parlor comes in two all solid wood options, cedar top with rosewood back and sides and spruce top with rosewood back and sides. You can also get a mahogany back and sides with cedar top option called the C9 parlor.

What an incredibly rich and full, evocative tone on this Irish Bouzouki from Trinity College! Tuned to G-D-A-E with bass strings paired in octave and treble strings paired in unison.

With a wonderfully rich tone, this instrument is tuned to G-D-A-E an octave below a standard mandolin. String pairs are tuned to unison.

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With hard shell case

Comes with hardshell case.

This drum is beautifully crafted from repurposed wood and a perfectly tensioned goatskin head. It has a completely unique tone due to an almost combo design between Ashiko and Djembe. The stave joinery in these drums is amazingly tight and the attention to every last detail is remarkable for the price! View some more detailed photos and other drums at Gold Line Drums.

On occasion I have access to discounted instruments with minor imperfections and this is one such occasion. Perfect beyond some small pin prick sized bubbles in the finish  in the bridge area this 17″ AR 810CE is a fully carved solid wood jazz archtop. Remarkeable value really, very few, if any, commercial guitar makers are creating solid wood, hand carved archtops in this price range. These instruments are truly inspiring to play if you desire an instrument to match your Jazz tendencies or aspirations!

 

The jumbo cutaway Martin JC-16ME Aura Acoustic-Electric Guitar features a polished gloss lacquered body, European flamed maple back and sides and a solid Sitka spruce top. The fingerboard and bridge are crafted from striped Macassar ebony. Each JC16ME guitar is equipped with the acclaimed Fishman onboard Aura sound reinforcement system. 

Action is perfect on this guitar, it plays beautifully and sounds fantastic!

This guitar has the requisite patina of a vintage gibson as well having great tone. Love that classic chunky bass. Neck angle is good and the guitar is very playable with nice action. A pleasure to play and a pleasure to look at!

This 21 chord autoharp is pre 78′ which means it was made in the USA! The zither pins are all working and it’s good shape.

This old tyme clawhammer signature series Bob Carlin banjo not only plays wonderfully but looks the part. Neck attachment strength and angle can be challenging with the old dowel stick system and although it looks like that’s the system on this banjo it’s not. Fake dowel stick over a modern, single co-ordinator rod, which is certainly more aesthetically pleasing to some.

These 4 string banjos were intended, as I understand it, to be versatile. At 20 frets not a true 17 or 19 fret Tenor but also not a 22 fret Plectrum.

Theory being that one could tune it to either of the short scale tunings used in Irish music, GDAE or CGDA (also for Dixieland music) as well as a std Plectrum tuning of CGBE for traditional jazz.

Std aluminum pot of the Degas banjos which seems to produce good volume.

Can’t go wrong with this all rounder in good condition.

Handmade teardrop dulcimer. A little rough in spots but is quite playable and sounds just like it should.

Excellent value for the advancing student. The bones of this instrument are solid as demonstrated by Michael Kevin Jones. The set up has been tweaked by me to play well, which includes Thomastik Superflexible strings.

This is the Yamaha YFH-731.  Now discontinued it has a medium bore at .433 and is the standard for good quality flugel horns at a reasonable price. Silver plated, this instrument has barely been used and is priced well below it’s usual street price of approx $1,000. Includes a well made hardshell case. See the used brass section to view a companion Yamaha professional series Cornet.

These are handmade by a small family run violin company in China. I deal with them directly, no middleman and have been very pleased with their product. The all plywood version I sold for $900 and the hybrid version with solid spruce top, laminate back and sides for $1,200. Good bang for the buck after I’ve done a decent setup and put better quality strings on!

 

This mandolin is not often available as the ‘Classic Sunburst’ is made in smaller quantities and goes quickly. Very different sounding instrument than the oval hole with a decidedly better feel in terms of upper fretting access as the neck heel comes into play more at the 12th fret as opposed to the 9th fret of the oval hole 504A.