Halland brings it home again with his latest DC-H. We commissioned this beauty with Wenge back and sides and a Sitka Spruce top, plus Gage’s lambs tongue-appointed arm and rib bevels immediately after the last one came to us (and promptly sold before we could hardly list the darned thing). Here we find exquisite note definition and sustain, letting the voice simultaneously fire right out of the soundhole and also linger around the player with mellifluous overtones. It’s got gears, essentially. We love putting this one through its paces in C tunings (even managed to pull a low B out for a bit!), right on up to Standard pitch.
Halland’s voice is representative of the modern guitar sound: clean, precise, powerful, and dynamic. We love Gage’s sense of line and curve with his builds; the aesthetics at play here are reminiscent of his apprenticeship with famed Michael Greenfield, but very much in his own style.
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