PRODOTTO:Merrill OM 28
CONDIZIONE:Used
PREZZO:€ 3.900,00






Jim Merrill makes traditional guitars modeled after the great 1930's Martins and probably comes as close as anyone in replicating that sound. They can be described as warm, sweet, harmonically complex, loud and with great sustain. But in addition, they have that three dimensional "hollow" sound that typically only good older instruments that have been played for many years usually have. Merrills are made with top flight materials  and workmanship has over the years developed to the highest levels.  Merrills have a deeper neck angle than most modern instruments so they can confound guitar techs that are not used to looking at them, but this deeper angle is part of the formula for the great old Martin sound they achieve. They take quite a bit of time to get but the wait is well worth it.

 

Rather than creating a modern interpretation of the OM, Merrill & Company chose to build an OM just as it was built in 1930: same materials, same bracing, same appointments, and same handcrafting. By doing so, we ensure that our OM achieves the same look, feel, and sound so prized in the originals. The top is master grade Adirondack spruce, with forward-shifted Adirondack spruce braces scalloped and tuned by hand for optimal tone. Fine pattern herringbone purfling, wood strip rosette, dark tortoise-colored modified teardrop pickguard, short pattern diamond and squares fingerboard inlay, and genuine antique ivory nut elements incorporated benefit the player: an adjustable truss rod and "T" frets for easier set-up, vintage-style Waverly tuners for accurate tuning, and old growth Honduran Rosewood back and sides instead of the similar, but endangered, Brazilian rosewood.