Guild Guitars 381-0600-837 GAD-F40 Acoustic Grand Orchestra Guitar

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The Guild Company began its rise from a small Manhattan guitar workshop to one of the world's premier makers of high-quality acoustic (and several popular electric) guitars. Registered in October 1952, the fledgling Guild Guitars Company set up a 1,500-square-foot manufacturing facility on the second floor of a factory at 536 Pearl St., not far from where Al Dronge's Park Row music store used to be in the 1930s and '40s. Sagman & Dronge opened at 130 Park Row in New York, near Silver & Horland and Harry Newcorn's Music, also on Park Row. J&R Music Instruments has the distinction of being at 33 Park Row, near the birthplace of Guild Guitars.

An affordable grand orchestra guitar from more than 50 years ago that gives exceptional balance and volume. Original grand-orchestra guitar based on the 1955 Valencia model, all solid wood, 16 in. lower bout, Sitka spruce top, flame maple back and sides, ebony fingerboard and bridge, bone nut and saddle, ebony bridge pins, wood binding, 1 11/16 in. nut. A workhorse of a guitar that fits any genre of music. Features:

Ebony Bridge Pins Tortoise Shell Pickguard Wood Bindings Bone Nut and Saddle Mother-of-Pearl Position Inlays Pearl Headstock Inlay Guild Acoustic Design Grand Orchestra Body Style Grand Orchestra Top Solid Spruce Bracing Guild Scalloped Spruce Back Solid Flamed Maple Sides Solid Flamed Maple Bridge Ebony Neck 1-Piece Mahogany Fretboard Ebony, 16 Radius, (406.4 mm) Width at Nut 1-3/4 (44.45mm) Number of Frets 20 Scale Length 25-1/2 Hardware Chrome Grover Vintage Style Chrome-Plated Open-Back Tuners Case Includes Deluxe GAD Hardshell Case Strings D'Addario Phosphor Bronze, Light. 012 to. 053