7 different guitar body shapes and their sounds

March 28, 2019

In recent history, the acoustic guitar boasts a bunch of key body shapes and styles that can fill in as one of the key variations for players hoping to get another instrument. While the careful definitions change brand to brand and time to time, most guitarists fully understand what you mean when you allude to a guitar as a dreadnought, a jumbo or a grand auditorium.

In the video above, The guys at Reverb are investigating a portion of these fundamental classes and show the variations between various guitars that fall into each. Here are the guitars we have in stock which fit into each of these categories:

Dreadnought: Martin D-18
Grand Auditorium: Cole Clark Angel 2
Orchestra: Guild OM-240
Concert: Martin 00-28
Jumbo: Gibson SJ-200
Parlor: Gibson L00
Mini: Faith Nomad Mini

Video Courtesy of Reverb...

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