DISC Luna Art Recorder Solid Wood Acoustic Guitar

Full Description

Spruce Top & Mahogany Body

The Luna Art Recorder features a beautiful solid spruce top that offers broad dynamic range and crisp articulation. Spruce is the most commonly used wood for guitar tops as it generates a dynamic tonal pallet and accommodates numerous playing techniques. The wood itself is quite elastic in nature, which resonates well whilst remaining strong, and provides a focused, clear sound of deep lows, warm midi-range, and bright singing highs. This is balanced out well by the mahogany back and sides, as mahogany is denser and produces a richer tone, with emphasised warmth in the mid and low ranges. The mahogany back and sides offer a rich characterised warmth, and is well-balanced with a bite of its own. Mahogany is used a lot in the acoustic world, because it is relatively economical, durable, attractive, easy to work with, and resonant.

Mahogany Neck Topped With Rosewood Fingerboard

The neck features a set neck construction in the C shape to provide comfortable playing experience. The mahogany neck is topped with a rosewood fingerboard that delivers a bright, warm, and sparkly tone that really shines through when using finger picking techniques. The Art Recorder's neck is made from mahogany because the wood responds greatly to picking, strumming, and various finger techniques with equal ease. The Art Recorder has exclusive moon phase fingerboard markers, and is finished in natural satin for a sleek look and smooth play.

Concert Body

The Luna Art Recorder features a concert body shape, which offers a well-balanced tone in a compact and comfortable size. The concert shape produces an articulate range of tones with a great sounding low end, without being too boomy. The concert body works brilliantly when playing finger-picking styles, as a vocal accompaniment, or for hard pick attack, its curvaceous shape can handle many different genres. The Luna Art Recorder is ideal for those wanting a Luna guitar for recording purposes, its solid wood body, and concert size make it ideal for taking to the studio.

The Luna Look

The Art Recorder features a traditional multi-stripe sound-hole rosette seen on many authentic acoustics, to match its multiply binding. Whilst its body projects a sophisticated traditional acoustic look, the neck features Luna's signature moon phase fingerboard markers inlaid in pearl to provide a sprinkle of Luna creativity. The headstock is even pleasing to the eye, featuring Luna's classic crescent moon brand logo inlaid in pearl, complemented by its gotoh style machine heads and contrasting gold hardware.

Luna History

Yvonne Villiers is an accomplished stained-glass artist who envisioned Luna guitars. Her inspiration for a line of guitars designed to maximise playing comfort came from her mother, Hilda Villiers, a bassist for over 40 years. Whilst watching her mum on stage, Yvonne couldn't help but notice the massive struggle her mum had whilst playing. With her mum being petite and using such a heavy instrument, she used to complain of how hard it was to be a woman and try to play these big bass guitars. Yvonne then questioned if there were others like her mum that struggled with the same problems and pains. She came up with the idea of a woman specific guitar, uniquely tailored to fit their bodies, their hands, and their musical styles.

Yvonne moved on to created Luna guitars, a line of guitars made for female musicians of all ages and crafted with luminous visual beauty to engage women's minds and spirits along with their talent. Yvonne already had brilliant artistic skills and use of colour, she then applied the same techniques as she did with her award winning stained glass work to her new line of guitars. She is known for using rich colours that shimmer and shine with every movement providing an eye-catching design along with the great musical tones Luna guitars deliver. Yvonne's design expertise has led so many men to respond to Luna's well-crafted, spirit-engaging instruments that the company now creates guitars for both female and male musicians of all ages.

Features

• Solid spruce top produces bright attack
• Solid mahogany back and sides provide familiar warmth and dark rich tone
• Rosewood fingerboard for smooth and energetic play
• The ideal mixture of tonewoods for recording purposes
• Exclusive Luna moon phase fingerboard markers provide a touch of Luna creativity
• Concert body provides comfortable playing experience

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Series: Artist
• Top Material: Solid Spruce
• Back/Sides Material: Solid Mahogany
• Bridge: Rosewood
• Finish: Natural Satin
• Colour: Natural
• Design Feature: Multi-Stripe Rosette

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
• Neck Finish: Natural Satin
• Number of Frets: 21
• Nut: Graph Tech BC6115
• Nut Width: 43 mm
• Fingerboard Inlays: Pearl Moon Phase
• Scale Length: 648 mm
• Neck Shape: Set Neck C

Hardware

• Hardware Colour: Gold
• Machine Heads: Sealed Die Cast Gotoh Style