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 tuned similarly to this permits Pete Seeger to sing in contented comfort.
Goodall achieves this level of artistic and creative expression with great elegance and a
sense of class unsurpassed in the annals of the luthiary arts. This guitar has a jet black glossy peghead
overlay with a “Flying G” mother of pearl inlay, and is bordered in a very thin
line of wood and black with maple outermost.
Its tuners are Waverly brand open-gear with grained ivoroid buttons; the
truss rod cover is spear-shaped and matte finish; the fingerboard is jet black
ebony with 7 etched squares in mother of pearl; the top is bordered in
herringbone wood marquetry and so is the soundhole. Its pickguard is beveled edge and tortoise
shell color celluloid while its bridge is carved of ebony with a “drop in” bone
saddle and six boxwood bridge pins each with a pearl dot.
The end pin is now a strap pin/jack since
this guitar once had a Sunrise
pickup which was removed by a prior owner. The wonderful, hand-selected mahogany on the
back and sides is maple bound with three thin lines of black, maple and
black. The backstripe is “southwestern”
motif of arrowheads with colored wood long rectangles; Goodall calls it “chevron pattern.” The end graft (you know - the butt wedge) is
maple. This guitar has just received a
world-class set-up at the qualified hands of our trained staff of Lutherers.