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Nylon String Guitars
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Choice of string spacing at the nut and bridge
Choice of body sizes and tonewoods

Options:
cut away, multi-scale system, high gloss finish, 7 strings


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Some of my recent nylon string guitars...


Cherry 12 string Soprano Guitar  2018   (for sale)


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This novel small 12 string has a mellow and snappy sound
all its own.


It comes with many new songs and great ideas fo re-arranging old ones.



The perfect companion for the creative artist.


11 1/4 in. wide

Carbon fiber reinforced Neck &
Soundboard Braces





Back & Sides:                        Black Cherry

Soundboard & Braces:          Red Spruce
                                         
Fingerboard, Bridge & Headstock Overlay:
                                              Black Walnut  
Nut & Saddle:                                      Bone



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Cherry Nylon String Guitar  2016
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Cherry 12 String Soprano Guitars (Nylon - 111/4 in. wide)  2014 - 2015 
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Cherry Nylon String Guitar  2015   (for sale)
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Cherry Nylon String Guitar  2014

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Cherry Nylon String Guitar  2010

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Perfect for jazz or classical...

A big generous sound, rivaling a steel string
in both volume and projection


This cherry and red spruce nylon string guitar was the object of an article in the Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Great Acoustics page, december 2010.

"This guitar (...) made its debut at the Montreal Guitar Show.  Attendees were thrilled to play the nylon-string with its powerful bass, cutting treble, and superb projection and note separation, which make it perfect for jazz or classical." 

Adam Perlmutter,  Acoustic Guitar Magazine


SEE ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE




This multiscale nylon string guitar with a cut-away is perfect for fingerstyle jazz and is equally at ease handling technically challenging passages in the classical repertoire.
The red spruce soundboard and cherry back and sides combined with the multi-scale system produces a guitar with exceptional note separation and clarity.  The fingerboard & bridge are made from Eastern hop hornbeam, the rosette & headstock veneer are cherry burl.  (For more details, see Ndakinna 2010 Technical Info at the bottom of this page.)
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Ndakinna* 2010   Technical Info
Form: classical guitar
Particularities: cut-away, cantilevered fingerboard, multi-scale fret system  (fan fret)
Back & sides: cherry
Soundboard: red spruce
Neck: butternut
Fingerboard & bridge: curly hop hornbeam
Rosette & headstock veneer: cherry burl
Binding & perfling: all wood
Nut & saddle: bone
Scale lenght 6th string: 26 1/4"
Scale lenght 1st string: 25 5/8"
Lower bout widht: 14 7/8"
Body depth: 4"
Nut widht: 2"
String spacing at the bridge: 2 1/2"


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Montreal guitarist Charles Gauvin (Mains libres, Forestare) playing an excerpt from a classical piece in a short video from LaGuitare.com, july 2010.

SEE VIDEO on line LaGuitare.com ...
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* Ndakinna, which is from abenaki old dialect in North America, means "our earth" or "homeland".



Marc Saumier, artisan luthier
depuis 1995
Guitares, basses et contrebasses
fabriquées à la main
Kingsbury (Québec) Canada
1-819-826-5858






Marc Saumier, luthier
Since 1995
Hand made
Guitars, basses & upright basses
Kingsbury (Quebec) Canada
1-819-826-5858






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