{"product_id":"c-1983-larriv-e-l-09-5546","title":"c.1983 Larrivée L-09","description":"A particularly enticing vintage Larrivée L-09 that was built in the later Victoria years, this instrument features master-grade tonewoods and craftsmanship and is further adorned by Wendy Larrivée’s Mucha headstock inlay. It remains in near-perfection condition, plays better-than-new on new frets care of our shop, and sounds uniquely beguiling among the many American-made vintage guitars we’re normally surrounded by at our shop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nThe Larrivée L-size is a 16” body in the shape of a classical guitar. It features X bracing with a pair of parallel tone bars that are perpendicular to the guitar’s center-line, similar to those in a vintage Gibson J-200 or a ladder-braced guitar. This combination of large 16” body with hybrid X-Ladder bracing is part of what gives Larrivée guitars their unique voices. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nThis guitar has a fairly thin top with quite minuscule finger braces and is measurably stiffer towards the bridge. As such, the entire top moves much more like a loudspeaker cone than most other flat-top guitar tops do. The resulting tone is one with a well-developed, deep, clear and strong low end, a clean and fundamentally present mid range, and trebles that are both muscular and shiny. It’s a large guitar that’s great for fingerstyle as much as it is for strumming. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nRosewood and Sitka with rosewood bindings and mitred purflings; mosaic rosette, bound ebony fretboard and ebony bridge. The headstock features Wendy Larrivée’s “Mucha” inlay, which is her interpretation in pearl of Alphonse Mucha’s “Precious Stones: Amethyst” Art Nouveau painting from 1900. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nThis Larrivée has a rather comfortable neck with a much rounder and deeper carve than the norm. The nut width measures 44mm (1-23\/32 or so), the scale is 650mm (25.6”), and the string spread at the saddle is 55mm (2-1\/8” or so). The neck measures .868” deep at the 1st fret. Set up with 12-53 strings and an action of 5-6 64ths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nWith hardshell case.\r\n","brand":"LARRIVÉE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53597021798766,"sku":"210000008529","price":3995.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/3660\/5550\/files\/177454977373741983_Larrivee_L09-0326-2Main.jpg?v=1790972639","url":"https:\/\/folkwaymusic.com\/products\/c-1983-larriv-e-l-09-5546","provider":"Folkway Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}