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LUNA TRIBE MEMBER:CECLIE MORAGLIA LUNA TRIBE MEMBER: CHRISTIAN BARNES ACOUSTIC GUITARS 2016 - The Year Of The "Tribe" Vista series...…....………………………………….....1-4 “I received my guitar last night...the music plays full, rich, and perfectly clear... just amazing tone...It's day one and I'm in love…” Artist series.................................................................5-6 Heartsong series.....…………...……………………….7 Woodland series.……………...……....……….………8 Chrissy T - member of the Luna Tribe since December 2014 Henna series / Vicki Genfan signature guitar.....9-10 Oracle series............................................................11-12 Beautiful instruments that play beautifully, yet remain surprisingly affordable, a Wabi Sabi series………….......…...…………...……...13 commitment to customer service, and most important - the Luna “Tribe” Flora & Fauna series…….…...….…………...…...14-18 Nylon series.............................................................19-20 From the beginning, customers were more than just sales transactions; we saw them as part of the Luna family. Customer service and communication would Safari………………………..…………….………...21-22 be at the center of our business. Over time, something special happened - Gypsy series……………...………………………..23-28 customers started talking back. Photos of our guitars with their new owners CHILDRENS INSTRUMENTS….….…..……......29-30 began pouring in; pictures of Luna Guitars on mountaintops, at birthday parties, at gigs and more were received. This personal connection with UKULELES………………….….………………......31-42 customers would become the genesis for what we refer to as the “Tribe” - a FOLK INSTRUMENTS….…….……………….....43-44 community of people who love the planet, each other and...Luna Guitars. The “Tribe” also includes our valued partners; staff, retailers, artists, distributors, MOONBIRD FOLK…......…….……………….....45-46 sales representatives and our factories. ELECTRIC GUITARS..............................................47-48 BASS GUITARS......................................................49-50 2016 has been coined the “Year of the Tribe” to pay tribute to all those who AMPS.............................................................................51 have helped make Luna so special. We hope you’ll like the products found in CASES...........................................................................52 our 2016 catalog and if you haven't already, consider this your invitation…to “Join the Tribe!" With love & kindness, © 2016 Luna Guitar s Dennis Stafford product photography ................ Sean Vennett Marketing Director, layout/editing/design ......................Terry Trutt Luna Guitars product manager ..........................Eric Stewart lifestyle photography ................ Susan Jeffers i ii acoustic guitars t h e Vi sta series I nspi r at ion that acoustic guitars takes you places Vista series Bear Luna Guitars' new Vista Series continues a tradition of beautiful, innovative BODY: grand auditorium design, laden with personal meaning. This collection of four guitars evokes TOP: padauk, quilt maple, blackwood, majestic landscapes, with open space to all sides and above - giving your spalted maple, ovangkol, koa & cocobolo BACK & SIDES: ovangkol creativity room to roam, explore and soar! NECK: mahogany BINDING: flame maple The Vista Bear features a lone bear in the foreground with a silhouetted FRETBOARD / BRIDGE: ebony tree line, mountains and setting sun as a backdrop. The bear is a totem PREAMP/TUNER: Fishman PSY-201 of grounding, courage, strength and confidence. Bear also emphasizes SCALE: 25 1/2” the importance of solitude, quiet time and rest. Let your inspiration find NUT SIZE: 1 5/8” FINISH: gloss nourishment and expression with this stunning instrument. CASE: faux tooled leather hard shell (included) Vista series Vista VISTA BEAR Vista series Vista Vista series “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place" Mustang Your audience will find their imaginations sparked by the composition of BODY: grand auditorium vibrant colors and textures in the specially-chosen, exotic wood veneers TOP: rosewood, zebrawood, padauk, of each model. Best of all, the natural variations in these woods' grain and bird's eye maple, koa & flame maple color will make every Vista guitar unique among its fellows... mirroring BACK & SIDES: rosewood the individual ways that we each perceive the vistas in our own lives. NECK: mahogany BINDING: maple The Mustang depicts wild horses galloping freely across a moonlit desert FRETBOARD / BRIDGE: ebony plain. Mustangs are a mythic symbol of freedom, heroism, romance, PREAMP/TUNER: Fishman PSY-201 SCALE: 25 1/2” limitless possibilities, and the vanishing West. Let your song writing run free NUT SIZE: 1 5/8” on this inspirational Luna guitar. FINISH: gloss CASE: faux tooled leather hard shell (included) 11 VISTA MUSTANG 22 acoustic guitars Vista series “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” Wolf This Vista model truly lives up to the Luna name – depicting a lone wolf BODY: grand auditorium howling under a pale, emerging moon. A desolately beautiful mountain TOP: blackwood, padauk, koa, flame maple, cocobolo, maple burl & movingui range, in a vibrant array of wood colors and grains, frames this nocturnal BACK & SIDES: cocobolo acoustic guitars scene of vast open space, freedom of movement, and creative possibility. NECK: mahogany BINDING: flame maple Depending on your individual interpretation, there's even a certain FRETBOARD / BRIDGE: ebony element of primal wildness. Harness the elements of this scene within PREAMP/TUNER: Fishman PSY-201 your writing and musicianship, and your fans may howl their own delight! SCALE: 25 1/2” NUT SIZE: 1 5/8” FINISH: gloss CASE: faux tooled leather hard shell (included) VISTA WOLF Vista series Vista Vista series Vista VISTA MUSTANG “Listen with ears of tolerance! (ROSEWOOD) Vista series See through the eyes of compassion! Eagle Speak with the language of love” BODY: grand auditorium Who among us has never dreamed of soaring high TOP: movingui, padauk, and free above the world upon which we're bound? bubinga, koa & spalt maple BACK & SIDES: koa The Vista Eagle lets your imagination take wing BINDING: mahogany against a blazing sky, high above a variegated plain. NECK: mahogany FRETBOARD / BRIDGE: ebony This sunlit entry in the Vista series is open to interpretation, beyond whether you see its PREAMP/TUNER: Fishman PSY-201 VISTA WOLF SCALE: 25 1/2” marvelous golden sky as sunrise or sunset. It can (COCOBOLO) NUT SIZE: 1 5/8” evoke the delight of unhurried motion, rising upon New! FINISH: gloss CASE: faux tooled leather warm updrafts – or the bracing urgency of frigid, hard shell (included) stiff wind during necessary flight. Whether you're practicing, writing songs, or performing, this guitar VISTA EAGLE will lend a sense of wonder and elevate your creative VISTA EAGLE 12 perspective. VISTA EAGLE 33 (KOA) 44 acoustic guitars acoustic guitars acoustic guitars All-Solid Artist series Deco Nylon Also available in a nylon string version Artist series All-Solid Deco Craftsman “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river Artist series Artist series “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your moving in you, a joy.” Deco Craftsman reputation. Be notorious.” Art Deco is an eclectic artistic & design style that began in Paris in the 1920s, BODY: grand auditorium BODY: grand auditorium The Arts and Crafts movement flourished between 1860-1910 and started as and flourished internationally. It represented elegance, glamour, functionality TOP: solid spruce (steel string) TOP: solid cedar a reaction against the styles developed by machine production. Objects were & modernity. Its linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the flowing, solid cedar (nylon string) BACK & SIDES: solid koa BACK & SIDES: solid mahogany (steel string) NECK: one piece mahogany simple in form, without superfluous decoration - and they tended to emphasize asymmetrical, organic curves of its predecessor, Art Nouveau. solid rosewood (nylon string) FRETBOARD/BRIDGE/BINDING: ebony the qualities of the materials used (“truth to material”). Their patterns were NECK: one piece mahogany Luna’s Art Deco guitar has a clean, crisp design that perfectly reflects the Deco ROSETTE: rosewood greatly inspired by flora and fauna. FRETBOARD/BRIDGE/BINDING: ebony INLAY: mother of pearl movement. The mother-of-pearl inlay, stunning against rosewood, is a perfect ROSETTE: rosewood NUT/SADDLE: black NuBone Luna’s Craftsman guitar has many of the same characteristics as its namesake example of Deco minimalism. These instruments merge elegance and INLAY: mother of pearl PREAMP/TUNER: Fishman PSY-201 movement. Its simple rosette and fret markers were inspired by a classic functionality that add up to a truly exceptional instrument. NUT/SADDLE: black NuBone SCALE: 25 1/2” ‘rose’ design made famous by Dard Hunter, one of the most well-respected PREAMP/TUNER: Fishman PSY-201 NUT SIZE: 1 11/16” SCALE: 25 1/2” FINISH: gloss top/ satin back & sides designers of the era. It is crafted of cedar, ebony, mahogany and koa - with NUT SIZE: 1 11/16” mother-of-pearl inlay - for excellence in both form and tonal quality. FINISH: gloss top/ satin back & sides 55 ART CRAFTSMAN 66 ART DECO ART DECO NYL acoustic guitars acoustic guitars Parlor Folk Nylon Heartsong series Heartsong Grand Concert T welve USB-Equipped USB-Equipped Grand Concert Nox Spalted Maple “What you seek is seeking you.” Woodland series Luna’s Woodland Series marry the simple styling of Luna’s Crescent sound