Overview: These exceptional concert instruments are magnificent examples of refined musicality, materials, and craft - simply put, masterpieces of musical art. The concert guitars of master guitar maker Joshia de Jonge combine northern European traditional tonal beauty with the quick response and laser-like projection of the most successful, innovative contemporary guitars.
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.
This mint condition guitar 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 (
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 an in depth interview with Joshia de Jonge.
Materials: Mint condition overall, European spruce soundboard with Joshia de Jonge's proprietary all wood grid pattern bracing system; African blackwood sides, back, and head veneer; elevated ebony fingerboard with twentieth fret extending under strings 1,2, and 3; sound port with African blackwood magnetic cover; Rodgers tuning machine heads with brass sideplates incorporating Joshia de Jonge's head stock crest ends, ebony kidney shaped buttons, black rollers with bearing bushes; French polish of shellac finish; 650mm string length, 52mm nut width; and Visesnut Premiere Series hardshell case with Case Case Cover.