In this video, Sam checks out a couple of beautiful acoustics from the Alvarez Masterworks series, see the full range here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/brands/alvarez
Guitars featured:
MD60 Bluegrass Dreadnought - https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/alvarez-md60bg-dreadnought-bluegrass-natural-gloss
MGA66ESHB - https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/alvarez-mga66eshb-grand-auditorium-electro-acoustic-shadowburst-gloss
The Alvarez Masterworks series offers a range of really highly spec’d acoustic and electro acoustic guitars, but at a much lower price point than you might expect, considering all they’ve got to offer.
Masterworks guitars feature all solid tone wood construction, there’s not a laminate in sight here, and they come equipped with top end quality hardware and LR Baggs electronics if you go for an electro model.
Alvarez have been a leading acoustic brand over in the America for nearly 50 years, and all of their guitars are designed and engineered at their headquarters in St Louis. Carefully selected, high quality solid tone woods are used are used to construct the masterworks guitars, and this allows Alvarez to make the tops just that little bit thinner to heighten vibrations. These tops are then supported by Alvarez’s FST2 scalloped X bracing design, which, when compared to conventional X-Bracing, shifts everything forward a little, moving the axis of the X closer to the sound hole, allowing a larger area of the top to vibrate more freely, and you can really hear and feel it in the way these guitars resonate.
Every guitar in the Masterworks series features a one piece, satin finish Mahogany neck with either a Rosewood or Pau Ferro fingerboard, they’re fitted with real bone nuts and saddles to maximise the transfer of string vibrations, abalone and mother of pearl fretboard inlays add a touch of class, and a cleverly engineered bi-level bridge increases the break angle of the strings between the saddle and the top, which when combined with the slightly more angled headstock, increases string tension, improving playability and tone.
So as you can see, a lot of thought and engineering has gone into designing these guitars and they easily out spec a lot of acoustics that you’d pay a hell of a lot more for. Try one out at your local Professional Music Technology!
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