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Collings Guitars - Parlor 1 Traditional T Series
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Collings Guitars - Parlor 1 Traditional T Series


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The Collings - Parlor 1 Traditional brings a new body size to this line of vintage-inspired guitars from the Austin, TX builder. Featuring a Select Sitka spruce top, and Honduran Mahogany back and sides, this little guitar sounds huge. Extremely well balanced, this small-bodied guitar is responsive to both fingerstyle and with a flatpick. These parlor guitars are not built to handle a heavy right hand, but with the right touch they can really sing. With loads of volume and projection for a smaller instrument it makes for a wonderful vocal accompaniment guitar.

The Traditional Series is marked by a return to just that, traditional building techniques and materials combined with the Collings exquisite attention to detail. This new series is highlighted by traditional style bracing and tone woods which are adjusted, weighed and voiced to produce particularly warm, rounded highs while maintaining a full, rich low end. The extra thin Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, applied without a polyvinyl sealer, makes for a lively, expressive top that has the feel of an old vintage guitar. The Traditional Series tone is further enhanced by the use of Animal Protein glue, which can dry harder making every joint of this Parlor that much more resonant and powerful.

This Parlor 1 Traditional includes a Collings TKL case along with a free setup from our luthiers.

  • 12-Fret Parlor Body with Extra thin High Gloss Nitrocellulose Amber Lacquer finish
  • Custom Traditional Pre-War Scalloped bracing with no tongue brace
  • Select Sitka Spruce top with Tortoise with custom wood purflings
  • Honduran Mahogany back and sides with 1-style Walnut backstrip
  • 24 7/16" scale length
  • Mahogany neck with Modified V profile
  • Ebony fingerboard with 14" - 26" compound radius, Medium 18% nickel-silver frets and Gold Mother-of-Pearl microdot inlays
  • 1 3/4" nut width, bone
  • Drop-in bone saddle with 2 5/16" string spacing
  • Pyramid-style Ebony bridge (petite)
  • Waverly Engraved Bronze 3-on-a-plate with Ivoroid Buttons
  • TKL hardshell case
  • Serial# 28214

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We take the time to set up every new guitar, mando, bass, uke, or banjo for every player, whether it was purchased here in Lawrence, Kansas or on our website. Large retailers are content to ship you a guitar right off of the warehouse shelf, while we take pride in the fact that your new instrument will be set up to be truly ready to play - for you.

Call us at 800-747-9980 or send us an email at info@massstreetmusic.com - we're here to help! All of us at Mass Street Music are musicians, and we're dedicated to helping you find exactly what you're looking for. You can also check out our Staff Page if you'd like to email one of us directly.

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