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The GA Guitar

Grand Auditorium (GA):  This guitar is very similar to the Tayor GA

basically a dreadnought size and scale; but with a waist and more curvy

To hear a GA played, click HERE

 

This guitar rocks.  The customer, an excellent finger-style player, just loves it.  I can build you one just like it!

(This guitar is quite similar in size and shape to a Taylor GA:  basically a dreadnought size with a waist and without

the squared-off shoulders).  This, like the B00, is my own design from scratch and I think it is one of my most

successful guitars.

 

Here are several GAs:

 

Cutaway with abalone trim around the top and abalone rosette, custom fretboard inlay, figured purpleheart back and sides,

bearclaw Sitka spruce top, BBand pickup, gold tuners with ebony buttons.  Ebony pinned bridge.


 
         

           


Here's a GA in cedar and flamed walnut:
   


Here's a 12-string GA in Sitka Spruce and purpleheart with a cutaway:
     

         

   


Basic specification of the GA guitar:
Scale Length:   25.4
Frets clear of the body:   14
Width at lower bouts:   15.63
Width at upper bouts:   11.62
Body depth at tail:   4.50
Body length:   20.00
Overall length:   41.00
(Important:  Dimensions are generally ± 1/8 inch)

The other guitar sizes for comparison, along with Martin standard sizes.
Dimension B1 B0 B00 B000 OM GA D Martin 0 Martin 00 Martin 000 Martin D
Scale Length:   24.9 24.9 24.9 24.9 25.4 25.4 25.4 24.9 24.9 24.9 25.4
Frets clear of the body:   12 12 12 14 14 14 14 12 12 14 14
Width at lower bouts:   13.00 13.75 14.50 15.25 15.25 15.63 15.63 13.50 14.31 15.00 15.63
Width at upper bouts:   9.25 9.88 10.60 11.75 11.75 11.62 11.50        
Body depth at tail:   4.15 4.25 4.30 4.15 4.15 4.50 4.88 4.19 4.06 4.13 4.88
Body length:   19.00 19.13 19.13 19.38 19.38 20.00 20.00 19.13 19.63 19.38 20.00
Overall length:   38.00 38.00 38.50 40.00 41.00 41.00          



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