Spalt The Nouveau Series Mucha December #6
362 views · Published 28 February 2011 · 1:22 · Indexed 14 November 2026
Channel: Dream Guitars · 2011 · Music
The Nouveau Series is a special project developed by author and musician Paul Schmidt and luthier Michael Spalt — A series of electric guitars based on the Klein acoustic shape with inclusions of art nouveau artifacts. Not only are these instruments stunning visual works of art, but they are ergonomic masterpieces as well. The bodies feel immediately familiar and the necks are appropriate for any style guitarist. "Mucha December" "The classic curvilinear Nouveau shape fashioned of Mahogany in the center of the guitar is surrounded by Walnut and flanked by Redwood burl that picks up the textures of her hair and echos the voluptuous nature of the instrument's shape, and the woman herself. The folds in the lithograph are reiterated in the light blue, light pink and orangish-pearl glass suspended over gold-leaf. The medallion shape is repeated in the small pearl accents around the architecture of the center section and up through the fingerboard. Forest green and butterscotch coloured pickups, rosewood knobs, a bone switch and an Amazon Rosewood bridge all accent the overall somewhat autumnal mood of softness, depth, and understated complexity of the instrument."
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