Welcome to Dream Guitars! Home of the loudest, most nuanced, most original guitars! But nothing quite compares to the 2006 Greenfield Changui we have in the store today. When renowned Canadian luthier Michael Greenfield struck up a conversation with one of the best jazz guitar players alive, Charlie Hunter, of course the lovechild of that conversation would be a seven (or eight, in Hunter’s case) string nylon guitar with highly flamed Koa back and sides and Spruce top. Enter: The Changui! As strange as its name may be, this is a guitar which loudly bucks all the trends and unquestionably changes your style the second you start to play it. Tuned from a high C to the ultra low F string, this guitar uses specialty nylon strings from the German string company Hannabach to achieve tones that range from warbling and loose lows to sharp, biting highs. The Changui is also a great showcase for Greenfield’s great attention to detail: observe that there are not one, but two bevels, one on the front lower bout and the other on the back upper bout (commonly known as a Laskin Relief) to handle this creature comfortably. Greenfield’s Spalted Beech and Paua rosette shines below those custom strings, and the Florentine cutaway has a graceful arc. The multiscale proportions are copyrighted by Novax (a detail requested in the original for Hunter), so that the monster low F string has the proper tension and intonation. When you do the math, you’ll see this is a rather dramatic multiscale: from 25” on the trebles to 29” on the low F. This guitar comes with a K&K pickup and Calton flight case.
This guitar is actually larger than life. What would happen if a bass guitar and a classical conceived a child? I think it'd look something like this. If you've been feeling (like Charlie did when he and Greenfield spoke) that you need to take yourself in a dramatically different direction, the Changui might be your ticket straight out of Plainsville. I'd also like to point out that this guitar has an elevated neck profile and a sweet cutaway to help you navigate the great expanses of this Ebony fretboard, and the Changui may look huge, but it feels a lot smaller and more comfortable when it's actually in your lap and you don't want to put it down. 
Another beautiful instrument from Michael Greenfield. The addition of the low string opens up many more possibilities for an adventurous fingerstyle player. | Scale Length | 28.75 in |
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| Nut Width | 2.28 in |
| String Spacing | 2.8 in |
| Woods | Spruce, Koa - Flamed |
Welcome to Dream Guitars. Home of the loudest, most nuanced, most original guitars
This guitar is actually larger than life. What would happen if a bass guitar and a classical conceived a child
Another beautiful instrument from Michael Greenfield. The addition of the low string opens up many more possibilities for an adventurous fingerstyle player. 