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Bare Essence - FURCH VIOLET D-SM
Guitar World
|September 2023
LITERALLY DOZENS OF great acoustic guitars are available these days if you have around $1,000 to spend. While newer companies that specialize in entry level models offer some good choices, I often recommend considering a guitar built by a company with a decent history that also offers a selection of instruments extending well into higher price ranges due to experience and “trickle down” quality factors.
The new Furch Violet D-SM ticks those boxes, coming from a company with more than four decades of history building guitars in the Czech Republic. Furch opened a U.S.-based distribution facility in Nashville in 2019, making their craftsmanship readily available to American players.
This story is from the September 2023 edition of Guitar World.
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