India Guitar

I designed this guitar for a musician in India who required a small bodied instrument for the purposes of travelling the sub-continent. The curves and carving details were inspired by eastern architectural stlye and Indian Rosewood was chosen for the guitar to feel at home in its surroundings. The soundboard is cedar, the fingerboard is ebony with a gentle radius. The bridge is indian rosewood with ebony bridge pins. It is a nylon string guitar.

The guitar features twin soundholes in the upper bout, the area of which I calculated is about equal to the area of a traditional round soundole. In addition to these, the fingerboard is raised above the soundboard to allow a greater resonating portion of the soundboard. The internal struts span the entire length of the soundboard giving the guitar poweful projection for such a small bodied instrument.