Spalt The Nouveau Series Mucha La Plume #8
380 views · Published 28 February 2011 · 1:26 · Indexed 4 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 La Plume" "The top is fashioned from Myrtle, Maple burl, and Poplar. The colours and figures are all reminiscent of the stylizations in the lithograph - the sweeping panels of curving rectangles (which also inspire the fingerboard inlay), the softness and colour of her tangerine hair. The quiet colours of mustard blonde, coffee-with-creme, and dark green are complimented by the burnt orange and sungold yellow pickups and butterscotch Catalin knobs. The inlays are bone and pearl, and the feather-tip shaped selector switch is from a radio from the 1930s. The bridge is fashioned from Macassar Ebony. Mythology, artistry, and lutherie embrace to form an exceptional work of art."
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