Simon & Patrick Songsmith Concert Hall Acoustic Guitar - Tennessee Red

Some superficial scratches on the bodywork, which to me adds to the vintage roadworn effect but it is an aesthetic preference. Due to this I've reduced the price significantly. Otherwise excellent condition acoustic guitar, great player, only selling due to reducing my guitar collection. Size is nicely a touch smaller than a dreadnought, but bigger and fuller sound than a parlour.

Specs:

Top: Solid Pressure Tested Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides: Layered Wild Cherry
Neck: Silver Leaf Maple
Fretboard: Rosewood
Frets: 21
Scale Length: 631mm
Bridge: Rosewood
Nut & Saddle: Tusq® by Graphtech
Nut Width: 43mm
Finish: Custom Polished Finish
Colour: Tennessee Red
Made In: Canada

Build Quality Review:

Simon & Patrick continues the Godin family theme in being very well put together. The body of the guitar is finished in a very nice red colour which the company call “Tennessee Red” and is of the semi-gloss variety. This lets the grain show through nicely and gives the guitar a quite refined look. There is a cream binding around the body. The neck of silver leaf maple is complemented by a rosewood fingerboard. Frets are well finished with no rough edges and neck fits in the hand nicely. Tuners are vintage open back and are aged brass in appearance, I am not sure if they are brass but they look great. More importantly they are very smooth in operation so the guitar is very easy to tune, not that it needs tuning very often. It was very stable during the whole time I had it. The headstock is finished with the Simon & Patrick logo in vintage white. The solid sitka spruce top married to the layered wild cherry back and sides gives this guitar a great amount of versatility in playing style. Projection was quite surprising given the smaller concert hall body size but is no doubt a product of that pressure tested spruce top so strummers will be fine here. Fingerstyle is where the guitar really shines though with well balanced bass and treble you can be very nuanced in your playing and each note still rings clear and true. If you are a Folk or Blues player this guitar would suit you very well but of course you can literally play anything on it too.

Price: £400 (Open to offers)