New bell model 12 string w. LR Baggs pickup & EQ, ‘interesting’ installation. Western red cedar top, figured South American mahogany, ipe fretboard & bridge. Rosewood/abalone rosette & binding, purfling lines of green Corain & black/white/black strips. Golden Gate(Saga) individual machine heads, gold plated customized tailpiece, compensated bridge system for exact intonation. This guitar has…
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Bell trichordo
Converted from a guitar w. bell shape body that was languishing—this is much happier as a pseudo-zouk with 3 pairs tuned CGC (octaves on the lower). Fabulous sound and plays like butter; strong sustained & deep response with none of the metallic plinky-ness of some Greek bowl backs. Patterned after a simpler model I made…
Parlor Bell Guitar
Bell guitar prototype; designed by Gordon Bok 50 years ago, based on the Washburn that the poet Carl Sandburg played. This has a parlor guitar sound, very even and present, with the side port giving the player an extra ‘monitor’. Nice graduated grain Maine spruce w. mahofgany back, side, and neck. Brazilian ironwood fretboard and…
Nikos Apollonio 