Luthier Alto 2A Spruce Guitar, Spruce top modelo (2A S) is the student alto guitar with laminated Indonesian Rosewood. The body cut-away follow the Niibori Alto 's alto cut-away style, nut to saddle = 535mm. It uses the gold chrome head machine with traditional Torres symmetrical fan bracing architecture. The top is solid spruce wood to deliver the clear treble and sustain in mid & lower bass tones. The rosette uses a simple & practical dark rosewood inlay with circle linings as contrast to the spruce color.

 

The usage of less popular Rosewood for maintain quality but affordability

The select laminated Indonesian Rosewood (Sonokeling wood) for back/side or Javanese Rosewood from Indonesia have similar characteristic like Indian Rosewood density & dark wood grains beside of more affordable material cost for student model. The Torres fan bracings style has symmetrical bracing structure, it resonates well with the designated pitches of every frets position. The fan bracing sizes & angles are tuned to resonate firmly against every notes tuned 7 semi-notes higher than ordinary prime guitar’s tuning. As such, although it is the student model but it has higher specification & standard to ensure it’s value over the lower price tag.

 

The physical dimension
Physically, the Alto Guitars may looks like a half-size guitars but the Nut to Saddle length is set at 535 mm, so it is not the same with half-size prime guitar nor the Requinto which have 545 mm length. The nut and saddle are from cow bone quality. The overall playability of this model is superb due to accurate set-up, and low action in general. The wood finish is gloss.

 

Hannabach ALTO strings

Regarding the strings, a good alto guitar with wrong strings will not produce the ringing alto tones, we take care seriously this aspect too. We recommend to use Hannabach 836 ALTO strings set made-in Germany. Hannabach' founder, Mr. Werner Hannabach knew excatly what it takes to make the correct strings to response Alto pitches, so after much of research, he came up with those special diameter & materials to ensure Alto guitarist will not feel overly tight tension and produce vibrant & lively tones especially with the trebles. It is also wrong to assume that Requinto strings can be used for Alto guitars as Requinto's pitches are 6 semi notes above the prime guitar, hence carry different string dimension as well.

 

Overall assessment, we position the Alto model 2A S as suitable for alto practice guitars, an affordable school alto instruments inventory which allow you to stretch your $ budget for more students to join your group ensemble.

 

Luthier Guitar is the distributor of Luthier Classic guitars, we constantly innovate & improve our guitar design & woods material selection