Special Offer: In response to the economic climate the owner of this wonderful series of guitars is offering a limited time 40% reduction to offer players a chance to own these very special limited edition guitars.
Just off a showing at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California.The Nouveau Series is a special project developed by author and musician Paul Schmidt and luthier Michael Spalt. A series of electric guitars that transcend the six string and blend it seemlessly with true art. The series was inspired by Art Nouveau and these instruments are at once art and the most serious of musical tools. Michael Spalt and Paul Schmidt spent several years developing the idea, finding artwork and artifacts, sketching, collaborating and finally building these exquisite gems.
The pieces are based on the Klein acoustic shape with inclusions of art nouveau artifacts, natural woods, bone and the finest hardware. Not only are these instruments stunning visual works of art, but they are ergonomic masterpieces as well. The bodies feel immediately familiar and the solid Rosewood necks, with there flat sheen, feel played for 50 years. The BoneTop pickups are extraordinary – Gorgeous hand crafted Bone bobbins died in a variety of colors with Alnico magnets for the Bridge and Ceramic for the Neck. They voice is stellar, clear and loud with other-worldly sustain. Each instrument also has it’s own custom case that continues the guitars individual statement as well as a signed copy of the book ‘The Nouveau Series’ by Paul Schmidt.
‘Mucha Summer’
The instrument features mother-of-pearl and Abalone cat tails flowing with the breadth and sweep of the lithograph through the figured Brazilian Rosewood. A stylized dragonfly lights on the Indian rosewood phantom soundhole with its translucent wings revealing the abalone cat-tail stem beneath. The glass exhibits a moonlit soft rainbow of strong orange, purple, blue, green, pink, yellow, amber – all luminescent hues floating over gold-leaf, inspired by the lithograph both in actual colour and mood of the peaceful-warmed summer moment. The earthiness of the Brazilian Rosewood is reflected in the colour of the bridge pickup while the water motif is captured by the glass and the blue neck pickup. The Catalin knobs and resin switch are set in Myrtle burl neighboring the Macassar Ebony bridge.”
Click here to read about the Nouveau Series on builder Michael Spalt’s website.
Click Here to view the book ‘The Nouveau Series’ by Paul Schmidt.
Click Here to view photos from the Museum Showing at the Museum of Making Music.