Goodall Guitars
Goodall Traditional Dread, East Indian Rosewood / AAA Adirondack Spruce
Listed by Rudy's Music · New York, NY
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Indian Rw
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Dread
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.75"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
About Goodall Guitars
Goodall Guitars are built in Sparta, Tennessee by a father-son shop — James Goodall, his son Luke, and Jean Goodall running the business side. James built his first guitar in San Diego in 1972 as a self-taught seascape painter who traded an oil painting for the tonewoods (this was before guitar-construction books existed; he learned from scratch). Fifty-plus years later, the operation has stayed small and family-run, building hand-made instruments across thirteen body sizes and five series. The Goodall design language favors restrained appointments — the woods carry the visual weight. James Taylor has played a Goodall as his primary acoustic for decades; the brand's reputation lives in player-to-player word-of-mouth more than marketing.
About Rudy's Music
Rudy's Music opened in 1978 when Rudy Pensa and his wife Fran started a small shop on 48th Street, the legendary Midtown block where New York's instrument dealers stacked floor by floor. Born in Argentina, Rudy is a builder as well as a shopkeeper — the Pensa Custom Shop's MK model, designed with Mark Knopfler in 1985, sits among the most sought-after custom electrics in the world. The shop moved to a Soho flagship at 461 Broome St in 2014 — chosen for its proximity to John D'Angelico's old Kenmare St workshop and the original Martin factory site — and a second location opened in Scarsdale Village in 2018, with inventory unified across both stores. Their boutique acoustic floor leans on Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, Collings, and Goodall alongside the shop's deeper electric, amp, and pedal catalog — one of the few NYC destinations where a buyer can walk in and find a curated high-end acoustic selection.
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