Art & Lutherie A&L Legacy Concert Left-Handed Bourbon Burst CW Presys II A/E - No Bag/Case Included *Authorized Dealer*

For our special left hand troubadours, we're happy to offer The Legacy CW from Art & Lutherie. This is a concert sized acoustic that is built for modern-day pickers, bluesmen and singer-songwriters. The generous cutaway gives you easy access to the high frets and the Godin Q1T on board electronics make it ready to rock whether you're on stage or under the stars. Underneath its tastefully rustic finish, the Legacy CW features a solid spruce top with wild cherry back and sides for a dynamic voice that is both authoritative and harmonically rich.

The A&L Legacy CW Left hand guitar features:

• Pressure tested Sitka Spruce Top

• Wild Cherry back and sides made with 3-layer lamination

• Silver Leaf Maple neck

• Rosewood fingerboard and bridge, 24.84" scale, 1.72" nut width, 16" radius

• Fishman Presys II electronics with tuner

• 18:1 open gear brass finish tuners

• Graphtech Tusq Nut and Saddle

• Dual Action truss rod

• Hand-crafted in Quebec, Canada using 95% Canadian wood

• Gig bag not included

Art and Lutherie is one of Godin's younger brands but they have really made a name for themselves in the world of affordable acoustics. They are built with the attention to detail that we have come to expect from our Canadian friends, and they have put an impressive focus on environmental stewardship, building their guitars with 95% Canadian wood with no clear cutting, meaning they reclaim wood from fallen giants.

A&L also uses high quality construction techniques to insure great tone, long life and great playability. These features include quarter-sawn spruce bracing, a compound curved top, reverse grain kerfed headstock, maple dowel fortified heel, and Graphtech nut, bridge pins and compensated saddle.

The Legacy CW is a comfortable concert sized with a look that is both retro and pleasingly hip. They really go all out on the aesthetic at A&L, combining beautiful rustic finishes with vintage open gear tuners and interesting pickguards. The top is solid pressure-tested Sitka Spruce and the back and sides are a special 3-part laminate of Wild Cherry. Spruce tops are the norm on acoustics for their bright snappy response, but Wild Cherry is an excellent alternative tone wood that Godin has used with great success. Cherry wood has a tonal profile somewhere in the middle of Mahogany and Maple. Not as warm and midrange-forward as Mahogany and less bright and "dry" than Maple. The low and midrange frequencies are assertive, with a clear and percussive character and reasonable low end extension. The combination of the Spruce top and the "maple-esque" properties of Cherry make the high end of the Legacy sparkle, which bring out great dynamics especially suitable for finger pickers. We really like it, and it's nicely detailed and more complex than some maple guitars. And while it won't punch out the type of low end you'd get with a rosewood dreadnought, the guitar projects well and has impressive volume for a moderately priced concert size guitar.

The Legacy CW looks, sounds and feels broken in right from the start. Even though these guitars come in at a great price-point, the A&L Legacy CW has tons of character and is suited for both beginner and more experienced players. As a daily player, songwriting companion or Coffeehouse workhorse, it's a very satisfying and attractive instrument. Affordable acoustics have come a long way, and the A&L Legacy makes no apologies. Do yourself a favor and try one today.

We are an authorized Godin/A&L dealer and this is a new guitar with all tags, tools, paperwork and certificates. We have over 25 Godin-family guitars stock at all times, and please feel free to browse our other listings, or contact us for delivery time and availability on other Godin family brands.