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Acoustic Guitars

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  • 2022 Klos Full Carbon Deluxe Acoustic Full Size Guitar

    2022 Klos Full Carbon Deluxe Acoustic Full Size Guitar

    from $1,999.00
    from $1,399.00
    The KLOS acoustic and acoustic-electric full size guitars are durable, lightweight, and sound incredible. They use a body that's on the smaller end of the dreadnought size range to provide a familiar and portable guitar that feels amazing in your hands. Comes with a bag. This is new old stock being sold as clearance and is sold as-described.
  • Bourgeois Custom GA Cutaway - Walnut w/Vines - Heirloom Series

    Bourgeois Custom GA Cutaway - Walnut w/Vines - Heirloom Series

    $13,499.00
    $12,149.00
    This Sunburst, Bearclaw Figured Aged Tone Sitka Spruce cutaway GA size guitar has it all, beautiful build and gorgeous tone.It’s highly figured Walnut back and sides yield a clear warm tone as does the Aged Tone Torrified bracing. The Signature Series Koa binding with Herringbone purfling’s look is complemented by tasteful Petite Vine inlays on the fingerboard and headstock and an inlaid belly bridge. This long scale guitar with a 1 23/32” width nut plays like a dream with easy action. It comes with it’s hard shell case.
  • Bourgeois Luthier's Choice OM Style 45 - Koa w/ Holly Bridge & Binding

    Bourgeois Luthier's Choice OM Style 45 - Koa w/ Holly Bridge & Binding

    $25,249.00
    $16,995.00
    Wow! This guitar sounds incredible! Representing the pinnacle of the Master Luthiers’ art, we are proud to be able to present the all-master grade Koa OM-45 from Dana Bourgeois. The gorgeous Koa is off-set by the English Holly bridge, body, neck and peghead binding and Style 45 purfling. The 1 3/4” width nut and long scale length makes this guitar a dream to play. The floral headstock inlay and gold, engraved Waverly tuners compliment the DB snowflake fingerboard inlays. Other nice touches include Animal protein glue construction, Aged Tone Torrefied bracing and Antique Walrus bridge pins. This guitar has to be seen and heard to be believed! It comes with a hard shell case.
  • Taylor Baby Taylor (BT1)

    Taylor Baby Taylor (BT1)

    $449.00
    The guitar that set the standard for the travel guitar market, the enduringly popular Baby Taylor makes a great musical companion. Portable, playable and affordable, the Baby features a solid spruce top and yields impressive volume and tone for its compact, three-quarter-size scale. It’s the perfect travel mate, it’s a great choice for kids taking lessons, and artists from Lindsey Buckingham to Bono to Taylor Swift have used one for songwriting, recording and performing. With its unique dimensions and tonal personality, players have used it in other creative ways, from high-stringing it to setting it up to play lap slide to adding a capo to evoke mandolin-like sounds. The Baby includes a Taylor gig bag for easy portability.
  • 2022 Martin Special Gruhn Spec 18 Style Dreadnought
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    2022 Martin Special Gruhn Spec 18 Style Dreadnought

    This guitar is in excellent condition with one ding on its lower edge. There is a professionally installed LR Baggs HiFi Duet pickup and the guitar comes with a custom Calton case. Adirondack spruce top (non-VTS) with forward shifted scalloped bracing, Sinker Mahogany neck, neck block, back, sides and end block (old growth mahogany cut between 1880 and early 1920s in Belize, a quality no longer available on trees cut today), 1-3/4 inch nut width, Performing Artist neck contour, adjustable truss rod, bone nut and saddle.
  • 2024 Froggy Bottom | A-12 Deluxe | German Spruce & Mahogany
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    2024 Froggy Bottom | A-12 Deluxe | German Spruce & Mahogany

    Warm and rich, easy to play and with loads of tonal depth. The wood selection on this is second to none, gorgeous Mahogany with beautiful character and a fine German spruce top to add fantastic articulation to that round Mahogany tone. In terms of condition, it is in excellent condition with minimal play time on it, as though it wasn't played much at all. We love a guitar bound in wood, for the aesthetic but also for the longevity of an instrument. The headstock is adorned with the classic Frog abalone inlay with a rosewood headstock veneer and Rosewood (appears to be Indian Rosewood) body binding. To tie it all together there is a fine wooden purfling around the top of the guitar, around the rosette and down the back stripe. Gorgeous!!! Ok, so it is comfortable, it is beautiful and it is in as good of condition as you would ever expect of a gently used guitar but really the beauty of this is the SOUND. Resonant, clear with excellent depth and simply candy on the ear. Get it before its gone!
  • 1966 Martin D-18
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    1966 Martin D-18

    The Martin D-18 is one of the most iconic guitars in Martin’s lineup, trusted by legends of music and players like you for nearly a century. This guitar has "the tone"! It sounds incredible and is set up low to play easy with light gauge strings but if you want it to, it will respond like a bluegrass cannon with medium strings. This great playing instrument is in excellent condition having received a neck reset and a brand new Brazilian Rosewood bridge with a nice full saddle. With a non-original hard shell case.
  • 2025 Froggy Bottom P-12 Deluxe
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    2025 Froggy Bottom P-12 Deluxe

    Tastefully appointed with quilted Maple bindings and a rectangular ebony bridge, this little Parlor guitar punches way above its weight! The medium C shape neck carve is super-comfortable to play and the scalloped bracing and bone nut add to the extraordinary tone of this small, sweet guitar. It is in nearly unplayed, excellent condition and comes with its original TKL American Vintage Series case.
  • Bourgeois 000C-DB Signature Sinker Redwood Sinker Mahogany AP Glue
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    Bourgeois 000C-DB Signature Sinker Redwood Sinker Mahogany AP Glue

    This beauty was a custom order. Ask us about building a custom order Bourgeois guitar for you today!
  • 2009 Gibson SJ-200 Custom w/ Abalone Purfling
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    2009 Gibson SJ-200 Custom w/ Abalone Purfling

    Thunderous tone emanates from this stunning Gibson SJ. Being a fine Indian Rosewood on the back and sides, this guitar has wonderful tonal balance, rich bass and satisfying trebles! What sets this SJ apart from the rest of the pack is the ornate shell inlays around this guitar. The gorgeous Abalone purfling around the top of the instrument and rosette is striking, but they also added it in the bridge, on the pickguard (little dots in the flowers) and up the fingerboard all the way to a bit at headstock. Being a deluxe model, it has binding around the headstock and down the fingerboard to match the body. Two elements that elegantly tie together this design are the art deco gold tuners and mustache bridge. An interesting element to this guitar that really puts it over the top in elegance is the flamed maple neck, which is sunbursted so the flame just peaks out in the middle of the neck. Overall condition is very good, with one dent in the lower bout of the top and a bit of wear at the back at the lower bout. Frets have medium wear with lots of life left in them. Action is nice and easy to play. Comes with original Gibson hard case.
  • 2025 Santa Cruz OO Model Guitar
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    2025 Santa Cruz OO Model Guitar

    This 1929 OO is hand voiced for a full and complex presence and the elements for an heirloom guitar are all in place. The 1929-OO Model has all the exceptional presence and playability that you would expect from the Santa Cruz stable of state of the art acoustic guitars. This beauty features all old growth Mahogany, top, sides and back for exceptional tone! This guitar is excellent, almost unplayed condition and comes with it's own custom built Calton Case.
  • 2003 Bourgeois Vintage D Brazilian with Calton Case
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    2003 Bourgeois Vintage D Brazilian with Calton Case

    We are proud to present this elegant Brazilian Rosewood Dreadnought from Bourgeois guitars. Its Rosewood is beautifully quarter-sawn with that nice straight grain that you just can't find anymore these days and the guitar rigs like a bell! It is in excellent condition and plays great with only light signs of play and or fret wear and comes with a Calton case in excellent condition. Specs: Top Wood: Eastern Red "Adirondack" Spruce Back Sides: Brazilian Rosewood Rosette: B/W Fiber Purfling: Vintage Style Herringbone Border w/ Back Purfling Head Veneer: Brazilian Rosewood Fretboard: 14 Fret Ebony Bridge: Ebony Belly Bridge Tuners: Waverly Nickel Pickguard: Vintage Top Color: Natural Finish: Standard Nut Width: 1 23/32 Scale Length: Long Scale Head Binding: None Body Binding: Ivoroid Fretboard Inlay: Slotted Square & Diamond Fretboard Binding: Black Heelcap: Ivoroid
  • 2023 Santa Cruz H13
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    2023 Santa Cruz H13

    In overall excellent condition, this 2023 Santa Cruz H-13 was gently handled by it's single owner and well kept. An ebony strap button was professionally installed at the heel of the neck at the usual position. This guitar has an extremely comfortable 1 3/4" nut and comes with its original Ameritage hard shell case. This guitar has a rich and balanced tone, with a lovely dry Mahogany tone accented by that Santa Cruz shimmer. Tonally complex, this instrument will surely draw the music out of you. Similar to a OO in size, this instrument has a slightly deep body depth that gives this a bass response that is quite satisfying, while having the comfortable form factor of a smaller guitar. Similarly the 13-fret construction gives you an extra fret, while retaining that easy to reach fretting. A wonderful guitar ready for it's next adventure, will it be with you?
  • 2022 Bourgeois Custom OM/C Soloist Legacy Series
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    2022 Bourgeois Custom OM/C Soloist Legacy Series

    This luxurious OM features a cutaway for high fret access and an arm bevel for playing comfort. We are the origunal sellers of this one-owner instrument and we personally selected the Italian Spruce top and Tasmanian Blackwood back and sides which give this guitar great classic tone at the Bourgeois shop. The Aged Tone Torrified bracing and animal protein glue construction gives an extra boost that makes this guitar's detailed tone hard to beat. This instrument is in excellent, almost unplayed condition with only the lightest signs of being played...no dings, dents, scratches or damage of any kind and comes with its original deluxe hard shell case.
  • Collings CW Indian - Sunburst
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    Collings CW Indian - Sunburst

    This SUNBURST CW Series dreadnought is designed for maximum power and volume. It features an Adirondack top and bracing, no tongue brace, an enlarged soundhole and Indian Rosewood back and sides. It features a 1 23/32” nut width and a 2 1/4” belly bridge. Named after the well-loved Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, the Collings Winfield is a highly modified version of our standard dreadnought that features options commonly requested by flatpicking specialists. The combination of the stiff Adirondack spruce top with enlarged soundhole, supported by a top bracing pattern based on the earliest 14-fret dreadnoughts, make the CW a bluegrass powerhouse. Everything about this model is designed to provide plenty of headroom and projection for aggressive playing, but not at the expense of good tone. With hard shell case.
  • Santa Cruz OOO Custom African Blackwood
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    Santa Cruz OOO Custom African Blackwood

    Fort Ross 'Chapel' Redwood top Adirondack braces attached with hot hide glue
  • Santa Cruz OO Custom Maple
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    Santa Cruz OO Custom Maple

    Flamed Maple Body Neck Profile - Round Custom nut width: 1 13/16 K&K Pure Mini Pickup All other specs standard to the model
  • 2022 Huss and Dalton OO-SP Custom
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    2022 Huss and Dalton OO-SP Custom

    This lightly used instrument plays and sounds fantastic and is in excellent condition with only light signs of use. It features a beautiful Red spruce top and spectacular Figured Indian Rosewood back/sides. It has a K&K Pure Mini pick-up and strap button installed. All other specs are standard and it comes with its original hard shell case.
  • 2020 Bourgeois OMS Country Boy Professional Series
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    2020 Bourgeois OMS Country Boy Professional Series

    The OMS recreates a classic design coveted by fingerstylists – and not a few flatpickers. This one sounds really great and is in excellent condition with lightest signs of play on the pick guard but otherwise looks super-clean. It comes with a hard shell case. It is very comfortable to play and sports a long scale, 1 ¾” nut width and a 2 5/16” bridge spacing. Twelve fret OO’s place the bridge in the widest sweetest part of the guitar’s top and makes the guitar very warm and responsive. The long scale retains the OM’s snappy tension and tone. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
  • 2016 Taylor 814ce
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    2016 Taylor 814ce

    There's a reason why the 814ce is Taylor's most acclaimed guitar: With its blend of refined craftsmanship, richly textured sound and artful aesthetics, the 814ce represents everything that Taylor stands for as guitar builders. East Indian rosewood back and sides, a Sitka spruce top produce a lush response with warm lows, pristine trebles and a slightly scooped midrange, leaving space in the mix for vocals or other instruments. Ideal for flatpicked lead lines, strumming, delicate fingerpicking and everything in between, this Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric boasts a versatile character that translates beautifully in amplified settings through the ES2 pickup. A deluxe hardshell case keeps the 814ce safe wherever you take it. This guitar is in good condition but has few dings and frets that are worn in but play fine. The guitar plays and sounds great. With original hard shell case.
  • Bourgeois D Country Boy Touchstone Series
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    Bourgeois D Country Boy Touchstone Series

    Crafted from some of the finest tonewoods in its class, the Touchstone D Country Boy features a one-piece Honduran Mahogany neck, Honduran Mahogany back and sides, and a hand-voiced, old-growth Sitka Spruce top. This guitar is crafted with Bourgeois’ signature attention-to-detail. Drawing on his half-century of experience as a luthier, Dana and his team carefully select each old-growth Alaskan Sitka Spruce soundboard by hand before bracing it with Adirondack Spruce harvested from deep in northern forests of Maine. The magic of the Touchstone Series comes from Dana’s renown system of hand-voicing. Over the last 50 years he has refined this old-world technique and is now recognized worldwide as a foremost authority on guitar-top voicing. The newest addition to the Bourgeois Touchstone family is based on one of the most successful models ever to come out of the Lewiston workshop—the Country Boy. This vintage-inspired workhorse is meticulously handcrafted with the specific aim of providing musicians best-in-class attention to detail, tone, and playability. Resonating with warmth and clarity, the all-new Touchstone Country Boy offers an impressive dynamic range. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
  • Collings OM 1 JL
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    Collings OM 1 JL

    Though the Julian Lage guitar shares the same foundational specs as the OM1 T, it is unique in some key ways. Its neck feels like no other Collings guitar, and that’s because it’s modeled after Lage’s cherished 1939 Martin 000-18. This pre-war gem is heard on the guitarist’s 2015 solo album, World’s Fair, and was his main touring acoustic for years. The 000-18’s neck, which was originally hand-shaped and sanded, has a distinctive taper altered by decades of wear. For Lage, this particular neck has come to feel like home. Through careful analysis and digitization of its unique dimensions, we were able to precisely recreate its worn-in, asymmetrical feel on his signature model. While we maintained the relatively narrow 1 11/16″ nut of the 000-18’s neck, we extended the fretboard from the original short scale to our standard 25 ½” length for slightly greater presence and note definition.
  • Santa Cruz OO Cutaway
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    Santa Cruz OO Cutaway

    This super-sweet sounding OO has a sports-car feel to it, smooth and fast. The neck has an easy to play 1 11/16" width nut and short scale for unparalleled playability. Its cutaway lets you reach the high frets easily. It features a spectacular Highly Figured Walnut back and a gorgeous Flamed Sinker Redwood top with Adirondack bracing that is attached with real hot hide glue. This guitar is a joy to play! It comes with a hard shell case

Acoustic Guitars for Sale at Northern Lights Music - Best Quality Brands

Discover top-notch boutique acoustic guitars at Northern Lights Music, featuring sought-after brands such as Santa Cruz Guitars, Bourgeois Guitars, and Collings Guitars. Whether you're searching for a brilliant Brazilian OM or a warm mahogany dreadnought, we have the perfect guitar for you. Can't find what you're looking for in our inventory? Our featured brands are custom shops that can build a guitar to match your imagination and budget. Looking for an affordable option or just starting out? We also offer high-quality, budget-friendly acoustic and electric guitars from Taylor Guitars, Seagull Guitars, and Yamaha Acoustic Guitars.

What is an Acoustic Guitar and its Characteristics

An acoustic guitar is a type of stringed instrument that uses a hollow body and a soundboard to produce sound, instead of relying on electronic amplification. The soundboard is usually made of wood, and the body can be crafted from wood or synthetic materials. Steel strings are typically used, but acoustic guitars can also be strung with nylon or other types of strings. Acoustic guitars can be played with a pick or fingers and are popular in various music genres, including folk, country, blues, and classical.

Reasons to Choose an Acoustic Guitar

Acoustic guitars have a lot to offer, attracting players for different reasons. The rich and warm sound that an acoustic guitar produces is often described as "full" or "rounded," and is appreciated by many players. The versatility of the instrument allows it to be played in a variety of styles and genres, such as folk, country, blues, and classical. The simplicity of an acoustic guitar is also appealing, as it does not require electronic amplification or other equipment. Furthermore, the portability of acoustic guitars makes them convenient for playing at home, with friends, or on the go.

History of the Acoustic Guitar

The acoustic guitar has a rich and diverse history that stretches back centuries. The modern acoustic guitar is derived from various stringed instruments developed in different parts of the world. The lute, one of the earliest known stringed instruments, was developed in ancient Egypt and was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages. The lute was a pear-shaped instrument with a long neck and a hollow body and was used to play melodies and accompaniments.

The guitar as we know it today is believed to have evolved from the lute, and it was first developed in Spain in the 15th century. Early guitars had four courses (pairs) of strings, which were tuned in fourths and were played with the fingers. They were used to play a wide range of music, including folk, popular, and classical. Over time, the guitar has undergone many changes and has been adapted to meet the needs of different musicians and musical styles. Today, the acoustic guitar is a popular instrument used in various music genres, including folk, country, blues, and classical.

Best Guitars for Beginners

There are many great options for beginner acoustic guitars, and the best one for you will depend on your budget, playing style, and preferences. A budget-friendly option for beginners is the Yamaha FG800, known for its excellent sound quality and playability. The Yamaha FG800 has a solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides, which give it a warm and full sound. For those who prefer a North American-made guitar, Taylor is a great step-up option. Try out a few different guitars to find the one that works best for you and your playing style.