Bourgeois Slope D Sunburst Guitar Demo @ House of Musical Traditions

House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, MD (just outside of Washington DC) is a dealer for Dana Bourgeois guitars. Here we have Erik Sharar, one of our teachers, demonstrating the Slope D model. It features an Adirondack spruce top, mahogany back & sides, ebony fingerboard & bridge, ivoroid binding, and nickel-plated Waverly tuners with ivoroid buttons.

The slope-shouldered dreadnought is only about 1/4" wider than a standard dreadnought, but what a difference! Voiced for an open sound, the Slope D happily accommodates a wide variety of playing styles. The beautiful sunburst finish comes standard.

Bourgeois guitars are handcrafted in an 1840's mill in Lewiston, Maine by Dana Bourgeois and his fellow craftsmen. It starts with the wood selection by Dana, a foremost authority on the voicing, selection and utilization of fine acoustic tone woods and ends with each guitar "singing" usually while the entire shop crowds around to hear the pure and balanced tone of another great Bourgeois guitar. These great instruments have become a favorite of many professional country and bluegrass players such as Ricky Skaggs, Bryan Sutton, Martin Simpson, Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek, Steve Earle, Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, and Marshall Crenshaw.

This model has a list price of $3,995. To inquire about purchasing and our discounted price, please contact HMT directly at hmtmail@hmtrad.com or 301-270-9090, or visit our website at www.hmtrad.com.

Erik Sharar is currently pursuing a Master's degree in guitar at Peabody Conservatory. To inquire about lessons with Erik, contact HMT. In this video, Erik is playing an original composition called "Turning."

Video produced by Glenn Tucker with audio engineered by HMT's in-house engineer and pro audio repairman Trevor Higgins.

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[daw162]

Recorded versions with the slope D don't really do it justice. It's a live player's guitar, very fundamental and extremely strong. It almost sounds transparent on a low sound quality video, but if you get one in your hands, you can drive it as hard as you want and it's still clear and strong.

[syncopater999]

That last little arpeggio says it all.

[gallopinghost74]

Martin's and Taylors are great factory made pieces. Bourgois' are top of the line boutique company guitars, but acoustic guitar sounds are completely individual, not unique to brand or model. If you're looking handmade steel string guitars make sure to check out Collings, Goodall, Ryan, Northwood, Webber, Somodji, Kent Everett, Sheldon Schwartz, Beneteau, Olson and if you check out those you'll find another 100 makers on the way.

[sonofprovence]

I own a Martin J41 Special, a custom Taylor with an adirondack spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides, and a Taylor 914 CE. I recently picked up a Slope D Bourgeois at a Wisconsin guitar store (Daves' Guitar). I thought it was the most fabulous guitar I had ever tried, so I am in the process of selling one of my Taylors to get a slope D. I consider Dana Bourgeois the foremost authority figure in the world in acoustic guitar making.

[detty42]

Nice sample

[dakcz]

what a tone, thanks for this sample :-)