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  • Taylor Academy 10e LTD

    Taylor Academy 10e LTD

    $999.00
    The Academy 10e LTD blends vibrant tone with Hawaiian koa's seductive visual appeal in our signature, easy-playing Dreadnought shape. Its back and sides, crafted from layered AA-grade figured Hawaiian koa, boast dramatic organic figuring, making this limited-edition guitar one of the most visually striking Academy models we’ve ever produced. Its torrefied spruce top, treated with our proprietary roasting process, offers a warm, played-in sound right out of the box along with plenty of headroom for strummers and flatpickers. A carved armrest provides exceptional comfort, while a slim Taylor neck and 1-11/16" nut width make fretting effortless for players of all levels. Whether you’re writing your next song at home, leading a jam session, or performing on stage, the Academy 10e LTD delivers premium sound and playability at a friendly price. Equipped with an onboard ES-B pickup featuring a built-in digital tuner, this model ships in a soft gig bag.
  • Taylor Academy 12e-N LTD

    Taylor Academy 12e-N LTD

    $999.00
    This limited-edition nylon-string guitar is ideal for musicians who want an easy-playing, great-looking, price-accessible instrument that will enrich their sound with inspiring neo-classical textures. The Academy 12e-N LTD serves up warm, snappy nylon-string flavors, head-turning visuals and a remarkably comfortable playing experience that encourages guitarists to develop their skills over extended playing sessions. Its layered AA-grade figured Hawaiian koa back and sides—boasting dramatically figured grain patterns—are paired with a solid torrefied spruce top in a Grand Concert body, yielding a mellow voice with a played-in personality, thanks to our special roasting recipe for the soundboard. A 25-1/2” scale length and 1-7/8” nut width provide ample space for fingerstyle techniques, while a slim Taylor neck and carved armrest ensure an ultra-smooth playing experience. Outfitted with an ES-B Nylon pickup system featuring a built-in digital tuner, the Academy 12e-N LTD ships in a soft gig bag for easy transport.
  • 2022 Bourgeois Custom OM/C Soloist Legacy Series

    2022 Bourgeois Custom OM/C Soloist Legacy Series

    $12,299.00
    $8,855.00
    This luxurious OM features a cutaway for high fret access and an arm bevel for playing comfort. 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. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
  • National Reso-Phonic ResoRocket 12 Fret Steel w/Hot-Plate® Pickup

    National Reso-Phonic ResoRocket 12 Fret Steel w/Hot-Plate® Pickup

    $5,200.00
    $4,670.00
    Here’s a National Resophonic that has it all...we love the Resorocket! This Brushed Steel 12-fret guitar is full of vibe and has that great, classic singe-cone sound. The Reso Rocket’s cutaway gives you easy access to the upper frets and its matching brushed steel Hot Plate pick-up means that it is gig ready! It comes with a very cool National Resophonic branded hard shell case. 5200
  • Taylor 414ce Studio SEB

    Taylor 414ce Studio SEB

    $2,299.00
    With its solid tonewoods, slender neck, tone-enhancing bracing and alluring shaded edgeburst top, the 414ce Studio SEB serves up a pro-quality playing experience at a more accessible price point for everyday musicians. Solid Indian rosewood back and sides generate lush overtones, pristine trebles and a rich low-end character, while the torrefied Sitka spruce top adds bold projection and a dash of additional warmth and aged-in sweetness. Inside, our V-Class bracing dials up more volume, longer sustain and improved pitch accuracy, making this Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric guitar an excellent choice for live play, songwriting and recording applications in virtually any playing style. Sleek, striking visual details like the burst top and gloss-finish body round out the appointment package for the 414ce Studio SEB, offering a stage-ready look to complement its rich voice.
  • Taylor 314ce Studio

    Taylor 314ce Studio

    $1,999.00
    For players seeking the rich, sophisticated acoustic tone and bold projection that comes with an all-solid-wood guitar, there may be no better value than the Taylor 314ce Studio. Now the lowest-priced gateway to the solid-wood experience in the Taylor line, this Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric combines back and sides of sapele with a torrefied spruce top, adding up to a punchy midrange response with a clear, woody character and an added dash of warmth and sweetness from our special roasting recipe. Inside, our V-Class bracing dials up more volume, longer sustain and improved harmony all the way up the neck. This model also features comfort-enhancing chamfered body edges and a slightly narrower fretboard of 1-11/16 inches, offering a hand-friendly feel that makes fretting a breeze regardless of your skill level. Finished off with a full-body gloss, nickel hardware and a faux tortoiseshell pickguard, the 314ce Studio includes ES2 electronics for faithful plugged-in tone and a structured gig bag.
  • 2017 David Newton 00 Rosewood

    2017 David Newton 00 Rosewood

    $3,199.00
    French Polish Indian Rosewood Lone Star Inlay Made in Texas Adirondack Spruce Top Brazilian Rosewood Bridge
  • Santa Cruz HT/13 Fret Happy Traum Model Guitar

    Santa Cruz HT/13 Fret Happy Traum Model Guitar

    $10,615.00
    $9,554.00
    You'll love the Happy Traum signature model featuring a Redwood top, Mahogany sides and back and Aid bracing attached with hot hide glue. Ivoroid bindings and tail wedge, abalone rosette and top purfling, 42 style fingerboard inlays and custom finish all lend this guitar a classic, elegant look. Happy's signature is at the 18th fret. The 1 3/4" nut width, 2 3/16" 12th fret spacing and 25.375" scale length makes the instrument a breeze to play. It comes with a hard shell case.
  • Taylor 214ce-K

    Taylor 214ce-K

    $1,099.00
    Boasting beautiful layered Hawaiian koa back and sides, a solid torrefied spruce top and our comfortable, versatile Grand Auditorum body shape, the 214ce-K makes a strong case as an ideal guitar for performance, practice and everything in between. Our special roasting process for the top adds a dash of mature warmth and depth, while the C-Class bracing inside enhances the overall response with more volume, longer sustain and a boost to low-end power. Offering plenty of projection for any application, this model also includes ES2 electronics for faithful, clear amplified tone and includes a sturdy structured gig bag for storage and transportation.
  • Taylor GS Mini-e Rosewood Plus

    Taylor GS Mini-e Rosewood Plus

    $1,199.00
    Featuring aesthetic and functional upgrades from its standard counterpart, the GS Mini-e Rosewood Plus offers an elevated take on Taylor's ultra-popular small-scale acoustic-electric guitar. Back and sides of layered rosewood are paired with a solid Sitka spruce top to produce a bold, punchy voice that performs beautifully across genres and playing styles, while its portable size makes it a great choice for everything from lessons and campfire jams to open mic nights. Upgraded ES2 electronics produce clean, organic live sound through an amplifier or PA, while the nickel tuners and a gloss-finish body elevate the visual appeal. The GS Mini-e Rosewood Plus ships with a brown AeroCase that's remarkably durable despite its light weight.
  • 2022 Huss and Dalton OO-SP Custom

    2022 Huss and Dalton OO-SP Custom

    $4,999.00
    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.
  • 2021 Huss and Dalton TOO14 Custom

    2021 Huss and Dalton TOO14 Custom

    $3,750.00
    This lightly used instrument is in excellent condition with only light signs of use and has a beautiful tone. It features a beautiful Sunburst Sitka Spruce top, straight-grained Indian Rosewood back/sides and a pyramid bridge and has great tone. 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.
  • Collings D2H A

    Collings D2H A

    $7,150.00
    An Adirondack Spruce top supercharges this square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnought, the most popular steel-string acoustic guitar body shape in the world. Collings brings a new tonal clarity to the depth and warmth usually associated with such a large, deep-bodied guitar. Although its bass response makes the dreadnought ideal for vocal accompaniment, Collings versions are also renowned by bluegrass flatpickers who must compete with inherently louder instruments such as banjos and fiddles. A hard shell case is included.
  • Bourgeois Legacy Series Banjo Killer 14 Fret Slope Shoulder Dreadnought

    Bourgeois Legacy Series Banjo Killer 14 Fret Slope Shoulder Dreadnought

    $8,999.00
    $8,099.00
    Looking for a slope D with some guts? Well, look no further. What makes the Banjo Killer a notch above the rest of the pack? It has a Brazilian Rosewood bridge-plate inside of the guitar that makes this one of the most powerful and articulate dreadnoughts on the planet. Developed in collaboration with Brian Sutton, the Banjo killer has long established itself as a premier Bluegrass instrument and a standard of the Dana Bourgeois product line. This guitar has meat, girth, punch and tone in spades.This guitar comes with a deluxe Bourgeois hard shell case.
  • Bourgeois OM Country Boy Touchstone Series

    Bourgeois OM Country Boy Touchstone Series

    $3,149.00
    $2,834.00
    Crafted from some of the finest tonewoods in its class, the Touchstone 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. With hard shell case.
  • 2023 Collings OM1 Cutaway

    2023 Collings OM1 Cutaway

    $4,650.00
    This cutaway Collings OM1 features a Sitka Spruce top and Honduran Mahogany sides and back. It has 1 3/4” width nut, 2 3/16” bridge spacing and a 25 1/2” scale for easy playing and lots of picking fun. The pre-war scalloped bracing adds to this instrument’s classic tone. It comes with a TKL hard shell case. It is in excellent condition with few signs of play.
  • Mid 70's Gurian JR

    Mid 70's Gurian JR

    $3,499.00
    This is a beautiful example of a mid 70's Gurian JR with a large, rich, sparkling tone. It is in very excellent condition with only a few signs of play. We just gave the guitar a new reset and all new frets so the action is nice and low with plenty of room left on the saddle and this guitar really feels great to play. W/hard shell case.
  • 2023 National Reso-Phonic Style 1.5 Tricone

    2023 National Reso-Phonic Style 1.5 Tricone

    $4,799.00
    We are the original sellers of this one-owner National 1.5 which features elegant and understated engraving. Like the originals, this Style 1.5 Tricone is built with a Brass body and cover plate — the same, unique alloy used by the Dopyera Brothers. And like those guitars, the body, cover plate, and tailpiece are nickel plated and polished to a mirror-like shine. The mahogany neck is finished in a rich, warm burst and fitted with an ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard. The vintage-style tuning machines work on the classic slotted headstock, topped by the famed National shield decal. An early National advertisement in 1927 touted the Tricone’s tone, power, and quality of sound, and the Style 1.5 proudly carries on that tradition. It comes with its hard shell case. The guitar and case are Excellent +++ condition.
  • Bourgeois OM Vintage Touchstone Series

    Bourgeois OM Vintage Touchstone Series

    $3,459.00
    $3,194.00
    The all-new Touchstone Series guitar features a Master Grade Old-Growth Alaskan Sitka Spruce top and East Indian Rosewood back and sides and is hand-voiced in Lewiston, Maine. The 1 23/32” nut width and Bourgeois neck carve make this guitar easy and fun to play. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
  • Collings OM 1 JL

    Collings OM 1 JL

    $6,600.00
    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.
  • Collings CW Indian A

    Collings CW Indian A

    $7,600.00
    This 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

    Santa Cruz OOO

    $10,390.00
    $9,351.00
    Nothing sings like a Santa Cruz OOO and this one is as sweet and warm as they make them! It's 1 3/4" width nut, 2 3/16" spring spacing and short scale combing to make this one of the most comfortable guitars to play that you can find. The custom features on this model that make it special are a Redwood top, Highly Figured Walnut, Adirondack Spruce bracing attached with hot hide glue, a Walnut Pegged overlay and Walnut rosette and walnut SGCG logo on fingerboard. With hard shell case.
  • Santa Cruz 1929 OO

    Santa Cruz 1929 OO

    $9,477.00
    $8,529.00
    The 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 Backlit Tortoise body, fingerboard and pegged binding and a single BMB top border. With hard shell case.
  • Santa Cruz OO Cutaway

    Santa Cruz OO Cutaway

    $12,985.00
    $11,687.00
    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.