{"product_id":"alvarez-artist-series-ap70-parlor-acoustic-guitar","title":"Alvarez Artist Series AP70 Parlor Acoustic Guitar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/alvarez\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Alvarez’s best selling models. The AP70 is based on a traditional parlor guitar but built to offer a more modern sound with greater projection. All Alvarez parlor guitars have a big voice and are dynamic guitars that can be used for any style of playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Our tone woods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe believe our multi award winning Artist Series is one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today and demonstrates our commitment to design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe term “solid top” of course refers to the soundboard of an acoustic guitar being made of solid wood, rather than being laminated. However, just because the top is solid, it does not necessarily mean the sound automatically benefits from this feature. The tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include our FST2 bracing system, bi-level rosewood bridge, real bone nut and saddle, great quality tone woods and thin finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFST2 is a forward shifted X brace design, this means the axis of the X is closer to the sound hole and therefore creates a larger soundboard area allowing for more energy and vibration to be harnessed. Both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars are carefully scalloped. The scalloping design was the result of years of continual development in our Yairi workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Artist Series sound and personality is open and powerful. FST2 also creates very good balance so both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist Series feel right and are exciting to play; no matter if you are strumming hard or picking lightly, the guitar will do what you ask of it. For a more focused sound with fewer overtones, choose a mahogany top. For power, go for Sitka. For warmth and response to a lighter touch, choose a Cedar top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll of our tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, we won’t use it. Top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models but all are stiff and finely grained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with a more angled headstock, our bi-level bridge increases string tension by making the break angel of the strings from the saddle to the top more acute. 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