Ryan Mission Grand Concert Cutaway Guitar

About Ryan Guitars

Ryan Guitars are built in Westminster, California by Kevin Ryan — a former Northrop Aeroscience Lab engineer who started prototyping acoustic guitars in 1987 while his day job built jet fighter scale models for transonic wind tunnel testing. The engineering background shows up everywhere in the work: the Ryan Bevel (the original integrated armrest, since widely copied), Acoustic Flutes sound ports, laser-sculpted bracing patterns, a spherically-arched back. Ryan's catalog reads less like a pre-war tribute and more like a thirty-year argument that the acoustic guitar could still be reimagined through precision tooling and materials thinking. Acoustic Guitar Magazine named Kevin one of the most influential builders of the previous thirty years in 2010 — calling the guitars "a blueprint for scores of other builders" and "a modern classic." The catalog stays small and the queue runs long; each instrument is hand-built in Southern California. …

About Guitar Gallery

Guitar Gallery is a Nashville-based online dealer specializing in fine handmade acoustic guitars, run out of South Nashville's Berry Hill music district. Their authorized-builder roster has the breadth few US shops match — Bashkin, Beauregard, Borges, Froggy Bottom, Greven, Lowden, McPherson, Olson, Osthoff, Petros, Sexauer, Tippin, Wingert, and dozens more, alongside a deep tail of vintage and used inventory from harder-to-find names like Traugott, Sobell, Klein, Wayne Henderson, and Dudenbostel. Every listing carries a consistent in-house recording — Shure SM81 or Neumann TLM 102 microphone, no EQ, no effects, mic placement held constant — so buyers can compare what each specific guitar actually sounds like rather than how it was captured. The active shelf rotates broadly across that roster rather than running deep on any single builder; the catalog as a whole is wider than it is tall.

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