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Product Ref: 125492
The Luna Fauna Dolphin features a striking curly maple top, which not only offers a stunning aesthetic, but delivers great tonal properties that are ideal for a wide range of genres. With a curly maple top and maple back and sides, the Fauna Dolphin Lefty produces bright singing highs, a strong upper mid-range, with good sustain and plenty of bite.
Constructed from mahogany, the Fauna Dolphin's neck provides players with a sonic warmth, as well as superb resonance and great durability. Mahogany is used commonly to craft guitar necks, this is because the wood responds greatly to numerous playing styles and techniques with ease. Luna have also provided players with a C shaped neck profile, which not only offers comfort but enables players to get a firm grip without cramping hands. Its smooth playing neck is topped with a pau ferro fingerboard that delivers a warm, bright, sizzling-sparkle which really shines through when playing fingerpicking techniques. Pau Ferro when used as a fingerboard also offers a smooth and energetic play. For added beauty, the fingerboard is sprinkled with Luna's signature moon phase inlays.
With a folk cutaway body, players receive the reward of a lightweight, comfortable instrument that can hack long gigs, studio sessions, and rehearsals without becoming uncomfortable or heavy on the knees or shoulders. The folk cutaway offers good projection and volume, but not quite as mighty as the bigger bodied guitars. Its sweet, bright, and full tone is especially well suited to folk genres and fingerpicking styles, however it still accommodates numerous techniques and styles of play greatly. The Fauna Dolphin's cutaway design is called a venetian style cutaway, which is renowned for its soft, smooth, and sleek lines that promote the access to upper fingerboard shredding.
The Luna Fauna Dolphin comes equipped with an on-board Fishman Presys+ preamp. It is designed to offer maximum control, performance, and quality in a small format. The sophisticated Isys+ system features volume, bass, and treble controls, along with a phase switch, and built-in tuner with easy read LED screen for quick and reliable setup. The Isys+ also includes a pre-wired Fishman Sonicore pickup as well as a low battery indicator.
The Fauna Dolphin Lefty is a well-crafted, beautifully designed left handed electro acoustic. Luna guitar's are very nature themed instruments, and the Fauna Dolphin is based on the beauty of the sea and the spirit of the dolphin. This stunning guitar features a dolphin rosette circling the sound-hole inlaid in abalone and mother-of-pearl, and finished in trans blue to give a wave-inspired effect to replicate the enchanting essence of the sea. The Fauna Dolphin is finished with abalone binding with contrasting chrome hardware and mother-of-pearl moon phase fingerboard markers. The headstock is finished with Luna's signature crescent moon logo and trans-blue finish.
Yvonne Villiers is an accomplished stained-glass artist who envisioned Luna guitars. Her inspiration for a line of guitars designed to maximise playing comfort came from her mother, Hilda Villiers, a bassist for over 40 years. Whilst watching her mum on stage, Yvonne couldn't help but notice the massive struggle her mum had whilst playing. With her mum being petite and using such a heavy instrument, she used to complain of how hard it was to be a woman and try to play these big bass guitars.
Yvonne then questioned if there were others like her mum that struggled with the same problems and pains. She came up with the idea of a woman specific guitar, uniquely tailored to fit their bodies, their hands, and their musical styles. Yvonne moved on to created Luna guitars, a line of guitars made for female musicians of all ages and crafted with luminous visual beauty to engage women's minds and spirits along with their talent.
Yvonne already had brilliant artistic skills and use of colour, she then applied the same techniques as she did with her award winning stained glass work to her new line of guitars. She is known for using rich colours that shimmer and shine with every movement providing an eye-catching design along with the great musical tones Luna guitars deliver. Yvonne's design expertise has led so many men to respond to Luna's well-crafted, spirit-engaging instruments that the company now creates guitars for both female and male musicians of all ages.