Overview
Columbia is my most requested model, featuring a versatile, well balanced sound. It is a powerful fingerstyle guitar that does not shy away from a flatpick. With a cedar top it lends a nice crispy, mature sound particularly suited for fingerstyle, while with a spruce top it gains more punch and a wider dynamic range. Back and sides can range from the classic indian rosewood to fancier cocobolo, ziricote, amazon rosewood.
It works beautifully with my deep reach cutaway and the Ryan bevel armrest, and the Flutes soundports lend an extra sound perspective to the player. Also available as a baritone!
Features
Scale: 25.5''
Lower Bout: 16''
Upper Bout: 12''
Depth @ lower bout: 4 3/4''
Nut width: 44mm
Testimonials
Here is what Simon Fox had to say about it:
"I had the chance to play this beautiful Maxmonte guitar at the ADGPA Guitar Convention in Italy. The cedar top produces a sparkling top-end perfect for fingerstyle guitarists, and the overall tone is rich and expressive. The inlay artwork is stunning, combined with the cutaway and bevelled arm rest, this is a guitar I would be overjoyed to own".
Even the talented Dario Fornara had a chance to try it for a while and really liked it... so much so that an unsuspecting Franco Morone turned around to come and check it out and try it himself!
UPDATE: the great Stephen Bennett had a chance to try one and he could not put it down... and he didn’t! So this beauty now lives happily in the US with one of the greatest guitar players around!!!
Here is what he has to say about it: “Anyway, I wanted you to know that I played a couple of shows this past weekend using the new guitar. I love it! As I mentioned, I'm using silk and steel strings on it, just as an experiment. It's working beautifully with these strings and I really love the feel and the sound of this instrument. I already know that the usual phosphor bronze strings work great on it too, ... So I am very happy with this guitar!”
Acoustic
