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François-Régis Léonard 2019 – France

Here’s your chance to buy a 2019 François-Régis Léonard. François Régis Léonard sets itself apart from other French luthiers who, all in all, remain fairly traditional. This 2019 François Régis Léonard offers a traditional sound, boosted by a bracing without carbon or balsa, which gives this guitar a beautiful dynamic and thick sound. Slightly different from the new François-Régis guitars, this 2019 nonetheless retains a distinctly French elegance.

SKU: 25LEO19 Category: François Léonard

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This 2019 guitar is representative of the guitars that have made François-Régis Léonard’s reputation: the perfect balance between roundness and clarity with a surplus of power.

The guitar is in good condition, with a few play marks, and the varnish has worn off where it comes into contact with the body. The owner did not want to re-varnish the guitar to preserve the original varnish.

François Léonard is a French builder who is making ‘traditional’ lattice guitars. He is aiming first at building guitars with a sound and a tone color in line with the French lutherie school: which means traditional sound rather clear like the Friederich with some dynamics. To achieve this target his guitar are including a lattice braced top with no balsa and no carbon on a solid body. As a result a loud guitar which remains very traditional in sound which is offering the player a lot of musical possibilities. Lots of pleasure.

The craftsmanship is perfect.

The sound of this instrument has a lot of charm and elegance. The tone is round and mellow with a great richness. It is a very balanced guitar with a remarkable sustain and great playability and power as well..

That is definitely a modern take of the French traditional guitar. Even if this guitar is very different from the Australian lattice concept we have classified this guitar as being both in the traditional and lattice section. The art of the luthier is not to be dependant of the technology but to use the technology to achieve the sound image that he is dreaming of.

The wood combination brings to the guitar an amazing sound. The walnut is an wood highly used for the acoustic guitars for its direct sound quality, the spruce is always more complex than the cedar and in addition will develop over time.