Price: $1,495.00
Ashbury AR-52 Parlour Resonator with Pick-up
Concert size body with cutaway. Brass bodied chrome plated
Item ID: GR53038 Model No: AR-52
- Product Features
- Built in lipstick pick-up with tone and volume control
- Single cone with a rosewood biscuit. 14th fret to body and mahogany neck.
- Hardwood bound fingerboard. Slotted headstock with single Kluson style machine heads
- Product Specifications
- Nut width: 45mm
- Width at 12th fret: 55mm
- Scale length: 635mm
- Body depth: 80mm
- Lower bout: 310mm
- Upper bout: 240mm
- Waist: 200mm
- No Frets: 19
- Body length: 436mm
- Overall Instrument Length: 960mm
- With Pickup
- Made in: China
- Model Number: AR-52
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Resonator Guitar Information
Resonator guitars all have a metal resonator cone or cones supporting the bridge which give the distinctive sound. The original tricone has three cones; the biscuit cone type, concave from the front has the saddle held in a wooden "biscuit"; the spider cone type has a cone convex from the front and a spider bridge straddling the cone. Each type has a quite different sound. They may have either metal or wooden bodies. The Triolian is a metal bodied example of the single cone buscuit design. A Dob ...read the full article
Advice on Choosing Resonator & Slide Guitars
Round neck Resonator Guitars are usually played in the same wasy as an normal acoustic in an open D or G tuning. Square neck models are usually played with a steel and held horizontally on the lap or in front of the standing player with a strap. Lap steel style players generally refer to the instrument as a Dobro. We can't as it is a registered trade mark!
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Ashbury produces high quality traditional and acoustic instruments, including acoustic and electro acoustic guitars, and bass guitars, autoharps, fiddles, mandolins, banjos and ukuleles.
The range is designed for the beginner to semi-professional player, offering very playable instruments with high specifications for the best price. Ashbury instruments make an excellent and affordable upgrade from any entry-level instrument, and are constantly being examined and perfected to offer the best possible value in quality and materials.
