Goodall

These initials (RS) represent this model as a Rosewood Standard bearing serial number 1362, The RS is one of James Goodall’s original “morphed into the 21st Century and beyond” designs – it is not the traditional Dreadnought shape; instead it is more curvy and sensual, not as masculine, shall we say?

This is Goodall's interpretation of a standard dreadnought, except that his overall shape is rounder and curvier than anybody else's dreadnought, and so the design is considerably graceful and elegant, somewhat easier to hold and play, and, because it is a Goodall, it sounds exquisite.  It sounds like all those little birds and woodland critters that surround Ms. White in that eponymous animated Disney feature.

The code, which should never be pronounced out loud since it can harm the pomum Adami (Adam’s Apple) or its surrounding tissue, means Koa Grand Concert, the C means Cutaway – in this case a sharp, Florentine, one, and the last K probably means Koa top This guitar is in remarkably clean condition – when you see it you will have a hard time accepting that it is not still new.

James Goodall is one of the earliest makers of the acoustic baritone guitar, an instrument happiest when it is tuned C to C instead of the usual E to E.  This makes for a sound that both shakes your windows and rattles you walls, providing the ability to play harmonies in different keys to players of ordinary guitar, refreshing to hear in the performance of genre, and, if you happen to like to sing but uncomfortable in standard keys, a guitar that's