Lowden Guitars
Lowden O-34c+ Adirondack Spruce & Koa
Listed by Sylvan Music · Santa Cruz, CA
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- 5 Piece
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- O
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.75"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
About Lowden Guitars
Lowden Guitars come from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland — a small town and a fifty-year obsession. George Lowden started building in 1974 and spent decades refining a voice that sounds like nothing else in the acoustic world: shimmering, layered, with sustain that seems to keep going long after a chord should have settled. Lowden became the fingerstyle player's shorthand long before Ed Sheeran put one on every stage; Pierre Bensusan, Eric Roche, and Alex de Grassi all spoke about Lowdens the way other players talk about their first car. The mystique is partly the geography, partly the sound, and entirely real.
About Sylvan Music
Sylvan Music has been on Mission Street in Santa Cruz since 1993 — a quietly remarkable shop opened in 1984 by Albert Markasky, who still builds and repairs in the back room. Albert's lineage is part of the shop's character: he apprenticed under David Morse in 1980, then rented a one-car garage with Jeff Traugott in 1983 before Jeff left to join Richard Hoover at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. That Sylvan-to-SCGC thread is a real piece of the Santa Cruz boutique-acoustic story, and the shop's continuing SCGC relationship shows in the inventory: the active Santa Cruz Guitar Company shelf is the deepest single-dealer SC catalog in the atlas, spanning OMs, D Customs, signature models, 50th Anniversary builds, and Custom Shop work. Goodall and Iris each carry a meaningful stack of in-stock boutique acoustics; rotating Lowden inventory rounds it out. The broader catalog runs much wider — Larrivée, Taylor, Duesenberg, Nash, Weber Mandolins, Dusty Strings, plus banjos, dulcimers, violins, and two vintage rooms — but Tonewood Atlas's scope intersects the boutique-acoustic shelf. For California boutique-acoustic shoppers, especially anyone tracking Santa Cruz Guitar Company inventory, Sylvan is the deepest in-person SC catalog on the West Coast plus a meaningful Goodall + Iris destination.
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