Luna Gypsy Quilt Ash Natural Electro Acoustic Guitar

Full Description

Grand Concert Cutaway

The Luna Gypsy Quilt Ash features a grand concert cutaway body that delivers a well-balanced sound with great volume and projection. Being slightly more compact than the bigger dreadnought sizes, the grand concert provides a comfortable playing experience. In addition, the shape is able to handle many different genres and playing style, although is particularly well-suited to fingerstyle players. To promote the access to upper fingerboard shredding, the Gypsy Quilt Ash features a cutaway profile. As well as this, the cutaway profile enables players to reach more challenging chords with ease.

Body Tonewoods

The Gypsy Quilt Ash is crafted with a laminated spruce top, which yields a crisp and articulate tone, as well as delivering a broad dynamic range. The versatile spruce top is paired with mahogany back and sides because it is relatively economical, durable, attractive, easy to work with, and resonant. Additionally, its mahogany back and sides produce a rich, resonant warmth with mid-range emphasis and a punchy, woody tonal character.

Mahogany Neck

Constructed from mahogany, the Luna Gypsy's neck adds a rich, resonant warmth to the overall tone and also responds greatly to numerous techniques and styles of play with equal ease. The neck features a C-shaped profile, which offers players a comfortable and secure grip, reducing the likeliness of a cramping hand. The neck is topped with a rosewood fingerboard that adds a pleasing sonic warmth to the overall sound. Additionally, the rosewood fingerboard offers a smooth and energetic playing experience and is sprinkled with Luna's exclusive mother of pearl moon phase inlays.

Luna Preamp

The Gypsy Quilt Ash uses an on-board Luna RD-0904TL preamp meaning you can take your Gypsy Ash to the stage and impress crowds with its gorgeous tonal properties. The Luna preamp is very simple and easy to use, just plug into an amplifier, change your settings to personal preference, and simply play away. Control options include bass, mids, treble, and presence.

The Luna Look

Luna offer beautifully designed, well-crafted instruments that were originally created to captivate and engage women's minds and spirits along with their talent. Luna are also well-known for their very nature themed instruments, and the Gypsy series is no exception. The natural quilt ash veneer design embodies the look of all things wood-land and tree like which projects Luna's philosophy perfectly. The neck has Luna's exclusive moon phase fingerboard markers, inlaid in mother of pearl, that run the length of the rosewood fingerboard. The headstock is even pleasing to the eye, using Luna's signature crescent moon logo, inlaid in mother of pearl which shines brightly, and twinkles beautifully when caught by natural and stage lighting.

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

• Cutaway shape provides comfortable playing experience
• Mahogany neck delivers beautiful warm tones
• Moon phase fret-board markers inlaid in mother of pearl provide beauty to exterior
• On-board preamp provides optional plug in performance
• Signature Luna crescent moon logo

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Series: Gypsy
• Body shape: Grand Concert cutaway
• Back/Side Wood: Mahogany
• Top Material: Laminated Spruce w/ Quilt Ash Veneer
• Bridge: Rosewood
• Finish: Gloss Natural
• Design Feature: Quilt Ash Veneer
• Scale Length: 25 1/2" (648mm)

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Neck Joint: Set neck C
• Neck Finish: Gloss Natural
• Nut: Graph Tech BC6115
• Nut Width: 43mm
• Number of Frets: 20
• Fingerboard Wood: Rosewood
• Fretboard Radius: 14"
• Inlays: Luna Signature Moon Phase

Hardware & Electronics

• Preamp: Luna RD-0904TL