Guitars As Unique As You 2011
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GUITARS AS UNIQUE AS YOU 2011 “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one” ~ Jane Howard For this year’s cover, we chose to feature some of the many players who have sent us their pictures: players so various they may seem connected by a love of music and nothing else. Don’t be fooled. We’ve learned over the last 8 years that the extraordinary Luna tribe is made up of individuals only disguised as ordinary people. In reality we are free thinkers confident enough to follow our hearts and instincts; artists who derive meaning from visual symbols that, like music, speak a universal language; intuitive women, men, children who know that small things actually are the big things; musicians who want our instruments to reflect our individuality; citizens of the world who believe we can make a difference and are involved in advancing the greater good in our own back yards; local anthropologists who honor and celebrate both our own culture and the cultures of others; human beings who value authenticity, who challenge the status quo. Here we like to think that the Luna tribe has been drawn together by instruments that merge form and function, that engage the senses and fire the imagination. If you’re already a Luna player, we send our sincere thanks for putting your faith in us. If you are not, we hope you will consider joining the Luna tribe! ACOUSTIC GUItaRS ..........................................3-30 Flora and Fauna Acoustics ................................3-6 Americana Series Acoustics ..............................7-8 Henna Series Acoustics ...................................9-10 Oracle Series Acoustics .................................11-12 Vicki Genfen Signature Acoustic ...................13-14 Eclipse Series Acoustics ................................15-16 Muse Series Acoustics ...................................17-18 Trinity Series Acoustics ..................................19-20 Fantasie Series Acoustics ...................................21 Nylon Series Acoustics .......................................22 Gypsy Series Acoustics .................................23-24 Safari Series Acoustics ..................................25-28 Aurora Series Acoustics ................................35-38 Luna’s Twofold Vision Statement: FOLK SERIES INSTRUMENTS ..........................29-30 To craft with artistic sensibility fine stringed instruments UKULELES ........................................................31-34 ELECTRIC GUItaRS .........................................35-52 that are comfortable and affordable. To motivate, Athena 501 Electrics .....................................39-40 encourage and empower ordinary people to unleash Deco Series Electrics ..........................................41 their creativity and become world changers. Paisley Series Electrics .......................................42 Gypsy Series Electrics ........................................45 Yvonne de Villiers Neo Mini Electrics ..............................................46 Founder and muse, Luna Guitars ELECTRIC & ACOUSTIC BASSES .........................51 Pazz Signature Basses ...................................47-48 Andromeda Series Basses .............................49-50 Gypsy and Neo Basses .......................................52 AMPLIFIERS ..........................................................53 CASES AND BAGS ................................................54 Inspired by the Roman goddess of flowers and plants, Luna Guitars’ Flora models feel as fresh as the springtime their muse represents. Cutaway bodies topped in quilted maple with maple sides and backs give the Flora series a full and satisfying range of sound that’s the perfect complement to their expression of nature’s beauty. IES R SE tunning S FAUNA FLORA PASSION FLOWER FLORA LOTUS FLORA ROSE legant, E ORA & L FLORA PASSION FLOWER Top: Quilted Maple The Passion Flower guitar is a lovely evocation of the blossom for which it is named. Back & Sides: Maple From the showy bloom that graces its sound hole to the delicate small parlor body in Body: Passion Flower - Parlor dramatic trans purple over quilted maple, the Passion Flower is a beautiful instrument. Rose - Folk Cutaway ntricate, LUNA F I Lotus - Grand Concert Cutaway FLORA ROSE Finish: Passion Flower - Trans Purple “Love is the answer, and The Rose design wraps around the sound hole before trailing gracefully onto the Rose - Natural you know that for sure; lower bout of this folk profile instrument. The red tinted abalone blossoms are Lotus - Transparent Shiraz love is a flower, you’ve stunning against the blonde quilt maple top. Neck: Mahogany/Rosewood got to let it grow.” Preamp/Tuner: B-Band® with 3-band EQ John Lennon FLORA LOTUS Scale Length: 25-1/2” The Flora Lotus is the perfect companion for musical creation with the full sound Nut Width: 1-5/8” produced by its grand auditorium cutaway body design. The guitar’s unique Product # FLO PF QM sound hole takes its shape from the outline of the pristine white flower floating FLO RSE QM majestically on a background of deep purple. FLO LOT QM FLO LOT QM LEFTY 4 IES R SE FAUNA FAUNA DRAGONFLY FLIP PHOENIX BUTTERFLY DOLPHIN HUMMINGBIRD DRAGONFLY QUIlt MAPLE DRAGON FAUNA BUTTERFLY Top: Quilted Maple FAUNA DRAGONFLY DRAGON FLY PHOENIX & DRAGON A folk style cutaway body with clear finish over a natural quilted top with maple Back & Sides: Maple With its fanciful trio of abalone and mother-of-pearl Body: Thin Grand Concert Body: Folk-style cutaway back and sides creates a a full sounding instrument that comfortably fits any player. Body: Hummingbird - Parlor dragonflies around its sound hole, the Dragonfly is among Top: Teal - Quilted Maple Top: Select Spruce An Abalone butterfly alights on a delicate Mother-of-Pearl flower at the sound hole Butterfly - Folk-style cutaway Luna Guitars’ most distinctive models. Available in trans teal Flip - Select Spruce Back & Sides: Mahogany of this charming instrument. Dolphin - Folk-style cutaway over quilted maple or in iridescent “flip” finish that changes Back/Sides: Maple Neck: Mahogany/Rosewood Neck: Mahogany from teal to purple as the instrument moves. Neck: Mahogany Fretboard: Rosewood FAUNA HUMMINGBIRD Fretboard: Rosewood Fretboard: Rosewood Preamp/Tuner: B-Band® ® An iridescent Hummingbird hovers at the sound hole drawing nectar from a pink Preamp/Tuner: B-Band with 3-band EQ FAUNA PHOENIX & DRAGON Preamp/Tuner: B-band® Scale: 25-1/2” The yang and yin, respectively, of Far Eastern legend, the two abalone flower. It’s petite parlor size body includes a B-band preamp system and, Length: 25-1/2” instruments complement each other perfectly. The soaring Scale: 25-1/2” Nut: 1-5/8” like it’s namesake, is powerful beyond expectation. Nut: 1-5/8” Nut: 1-5/8” Finish: Gloss Black Finish: Hummingbird - Natural Gloss Phoenix in abalone is stunning against the black finish of this cutaway folk style instrument. On the Dragon, the rich Finish: Trans Teal Product #: FAU PHX BLK FAUNA DOLPHIN Buterfly - Natural Gloss abalone inlaid Dragon arches across the guitar’s top, making Iridescent Flip FAU DRA BLK Luna’s Fauna Dolphin is a remarkable instrument featuring a trinity of inlaid abalone Dolphin - Trans Azure this instrument a real attention-getter. Product #: FAU DF QM FAU PHX BLK LEFTY and mother-of-pearl dolphins swimming around the soundhole against trans azure Product #: FAU HUM FAU DF IRDF over quilted maple waves. FAU BTFLY FAU DPN “When one tugs at anything in nature; he finds it FAU BTFLY LEFTY attached to the rest of the world.” FAU DPN LEFTY John Muir 5 6 AM E100 AM D50 AM T100 AM D100 CANA CANA I R E AMD SERIES GUItaRS Body: AM T100, AM D50 - Dreadnought The Americana Collection has a classic, traditional look and designs AM E100, AM D100 - Dreadnought cut-away drawn from our unique cultural heritage. The AM E100 features the Top: Solid Spruce bald eagle….the only eagle unique to North America and the emblem Neck: Mahogany LUNA AM compact and convenient Carefree, of the U.S. since 1782 because of “its long life, great strength, Body: Rosewood, AM T100 - Mahogany and majestic looks”. Scale Length: 25-1/2” Nut Width: 1-11/16” “America is a tune.It must be sung together.” The AMT 100’s signature pick guard suggests the feel of tooled leather, Fingerboard: Ebony Gerald Stanley Lee and the herringbone binding suggests stitching; both evocative of Hardware: Brushed nickel the American West. For the purists who want a strictly traditional look Bridge: Ebony without a preamp, the AM D50 offers finesse and uncompromising Preamp/Tuner: B-Band® with 3-band EQ, AMD 50 - none sound quality. While the AM D 100 offers the same features as the D50 Binding: AM T100, AM D50, AM D100 - Herringbone with the addition of a B-Band® preamp in a cut-away profile. AM E100 - Wood Designed with superior woods and tonal bracing the Americana Series Product # AM T100 delivers incredible tone from low to high frequencies. AM E100 AM D50 AM D100 7 8 IES R SE NNA E H State-of-the-art laser etching technology faithfully recreates the intricate henna designs on GENERatION II HENNA PARADISE AND OASIS these breathtaking guitars. These instruments’ folk styling provides a perfect background Body: Folk that evokes the sensuous lines and curves that make henna body art such a beguiling form of Top: Solid Spruce or solid Cedar expression. Rich woods and complex tones offer players a guitar that is as Back/Sides: Mahogany unforgettable in its craft as it is in its artistry. Neck: Mahogany