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December 18, 2006 | Solocomp JM Review

Getting down to the "fundamentals;" in this case, the glorious harmonic fundamental tone of the new Old Wave Solocomp JM. We just received the fruits of a year-long collaboration and commission from world class builder, Bill Bussmann, and couldn't be happier.

This new instrument features a warm, rich sound, with its CGDA tuning, slick guitar-body shape, and a 4-string dexterity and 16" scale well-suited for chord-melody style playing. It's more than we could have ever asked for, and hope to see it as a standard production model.

We'll be posting sound files soon.

Read review: Solocomp JM Alto Guitar/Jazz Mandola

Posted by Ted at December 18, 2006 5:47 AM

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