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Vault Fridays: Taylor GS5-E Sunburst Acoustic Guitar

Travis Cook — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:08:17 +0000

Welcome back to another Vault Friday! Each Friday I’ll venture into the Vault with one of our instrument specialists to showcase some of the cool stuff we’ve got hidden away in there. Also, beginning this week, we’re using the new Zoom Q3 video recorder. We heard your comments that we should work on improving sound quality – Thanks for the feedback!

This week we have a Taylor GS5-E with a beautiful dark sunburst. This guitar is crafted with Taylor’s Grand Symphony body, a red spruce top, and American mahogany back and sides. This guitar features the Taylor Expression electronics package giving you pure, high-fidelity acoustic amplification for a more natural sound. Visually, this guitar is elegant in its simplicity – offering abalone dots and rosette, an ebony fretboard, gold Taylor tuners, and omitting a pick guard.

Give JC a call at (800) 635-2021 Ext. 7124, or click here for more information!

1934 LE Gibson Sam Bush Fern Mandolin

Murrell Thixton — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:23:32 +0000

The new Sam Bush 1934 Limited Edition Fern has arrived at First Quality Music. Just a limited run of 25 instruments will be hand signed, the mandolin was inspired by Newgrass master mandolin player Sam Bush and created under the watchful eye of Gibson’s master luthier David Harvey. Gibson created a marriage of the Gibson Fern and the now famous Sam Bush model mandolin. This mandolin features many of the same appointments as the instrument depicted in the 1934 catalog, including the figured maple body chassis with a red spruce top, the mother of pearl block fingerboard inlays and the Fern peghead inlay made from genuine abalone pearl. The instrument’s stunning nitro-cellulose lacquer finish — painted in a ’30s Iced Tea burst color — is also faithfully recreated, giving the instrument its alluring vintage patina. You can check out this beautiful instrument on our website, and if you in the Louisville area be sure to stop by our showroom where we’ll be happy to let you see (and pick) it first hand.

New Gibson Acoustics in the Showroom!

Marsha Sullivan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:49:00 +0000

The 2009 Gibson Acoustic guitars are starting to arrive. In the last couple of days we’ve gotten the SJ-200 Studio and the Songwriter Deluxe Standard. Nice guitars to say the least, but JC is absolutely crazy about the new 2009 Songwriter Deluxe Standard. He loves the new inlays and the flamed maple body binding. And the sound – WOW! It was amazing straight out of the box!

I just read on the Gibson website that they’ve added a ‘new compound radius fingerboard for electric guitar-like playing.’ That’s the best of both worlds – the easy play of an electric with the incredible sound from the Fishman Aura system and the classic beauty of a Gibson acoustic guitar.

And did I mention the way this guitar sounds? Gibson went ‘old-school’ and used hide glue to install the red spruce tone bars and it completely paid off! You won’t believe how great it sounds.

Both of these guitars will be on the First Quality website soon. Call JC if you have any questions about the new Gibson Acoustics. (800) 635-2021 extn 7124