Luna Steel Magnolia Resonator

 (2 customer reviews)

Been playing for 48 years, many of them as a semi-professional. Own 4 high end acoustics (Santa Cruz and Huss+Dalton). Bought this guitar on a whim and hope that it would be a fun, very inexpensive new sound to play around with. So, let me tell you:

This Luna Stell Magnolia plays as well as any of my guitars in terms of playability ;i.e., the neck is superb for this price range. The guitar was perfectly set up out of the shipping box (beware - a case is not included; too bad). Unplugged, the guitar sounds pretty bad, which I expected due to its shallow depth. However, plugged in, it is truly wonderful and surpasses all expectations. Through a Fender Princeton Reverb, it has a very good acoustic tone. And, through a Fishman Loudbox 100, it also sounds great, a somewhat different acoustic sound. The Steel Magnolia sounds almost as good as a National Resoelectric which sells for 3 X's the price.

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