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Just beginning to learn the first segment of an arrangement by Mark Anthony Cruz. One of my favorite Beethoven pieces. This is played on a Reynolds Concert Grand classical guitar. Double top Chocolate Cedar and phenomenal moonscape Cocobolo. If only I could play as well as this guitar can make music.
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Find Jonathan Sloane at https://jonathansloanemusic.com
See this Capri Orange T in the gallery.
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The latest album by WMD, Last Note, features a song composed, sung and played by Jackson Wieland on a Morelli Octave Mandolin.
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This is one of the first double top steel string guitars ever made. Originally built by Randy Reynolds for the Healdsburg, CA Guitar Festival – old growth Adirondack Spruce and old Brazilian Rosewood.
“Almost There” is a piece I wrote especially for this guitar.
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Played by Gerry Kunkel, this Octave Mandolin is created with a Canadian Spruce top which is hand carved and tap tuned. The body and neck are Eastern Hard Curly Maple with all other appointments in Pao Ferro. Hardware is all relic’d and the finish a vintage burst in nitrocellulose lacquer.
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Twin Octave Mandolins built side by side in the hands of luthiers Todd Stock and Filippo Morelli. Chris Verhoeven (right) and Filippo Morelli (left) playing, “Barton Hallow” by the Civil Wars.
See this octave mandolin in the gallery.
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This 1936 Gibson L-30, in the original owner family, came in for a restoration. Its top separating in pieces, the back broken in two, flat with all the braces no longer supporting the back.
After the restoration, it had a wonderfully bluesy sound that only a 75 year old archtop would have. I wrote “John’s Hurt” (based on Mississippi John Hurt influence) to demonstrate this guitar’s sound.
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Morelli 000-28 12 fret slot head played by Joe Bloom, entitled “Memory Lane”
East Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce top. Honduran Mahogany slot head neck. Cocobolo headplate and bridge. Bound in curly maple. 25.34″ scale, Ebony fretboard.
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A Morelli Segovia Homage classical based on the 1937 Hauser made famous by Andrés Segovia.
Brazilian Rosewood back and sides, Master grade Lutz Spruce top braced with Swiss moon harvested Spruce. The neck is Honduran Mahogany with a Madagascar Ebony 650mm fretboard and Macassar Ebony binding. Bridge and headplate are also Brazilian Rosewood.
