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New "Archangel" Nylon String Archtop Guitar

Published 10 years ago on February 6, 2013

By Guitar Interactive Magazine

New "Archangel"nylon string archtop guitar...

...a rare guitargenre indeed

designed andhand-built for perceptive guitarists to play "Bach, Beatles orBasie" .... beautifully!

 

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A simple recording made by a domestic quality Olympusrecorder can be heard at .... https://soundcloud.com/search?q=murray%20kuun

"Archangel" has a hand-carved arched spruce top, a hand-carvedarched cherry back.  In fact hand-carved everything, muchlike a violin.  Then hand-polished to a fine patina.  Allfor good reason - an exquisite tone!

"Archangel also features a slightly radiusedfingerboard, Stradivari-type f-holes, a sound-port and high qualitytuning machines to make it a pleasure for either classical,jazz or fingerstyle players to play.

The instrument can be custom orderded in a widevariety of tonewoods and finishes.  This original guitarhas:-

 

    - a spruce soundboard

    - sustainable cherry back andsides

    - Indian rosewood fingerboard on acherry neck. 

    - trimmings in curly maple andAfrican "pinkwood". 

    - a 650mm scale, typical of mostgood classicals.

    - Swiss made Schertler tuningmachines

 

Professional jazz and classical players havedescribed the instrument as very responsive, sexy and prettysounding with excellent sustain.

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"Archangel" is able to  fill small and mediumsized club rooms with a beautifully balanced tone but can alsobe ordered with a high quality, natural sounding pickup system forconcerts in bigger concert halls and clubs.

"Archangels" currently carry a suggested price ofUS$5990-   final price is dependent on the location,currency exchange rate and final specifications decided on by theclient.

For more information visit www.murraykuun.com

 


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