Alvarez Artist Series AP70 Parlor Guitar
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An affordable guitar with a hand-selected solid spruce top, rosewood back and sides, and an open tone.
The Alvarez Artist Series AP70 Parlor Guitar is one of the most popular models in the whole Alvarez line. It has fantastic energy and response for its size and is incredibly comfortable to play. Center-scalloped bracing was used for this parlor, which lets the top really react to the finest of touches. This probably might make you play this small-bodied guitar differently to how you would larger instruments, which leads to all sorts of great stuff.
The AP70 is a member of the Artist Series 70’s, which are stunning guitars made from hand-selected A grade Sitka with rosewood backs and sides. The high gloss finish really brings out the beauty and grain in the rosewood and like all Artist Series they have advanced scalloped bracing and all natural components. Just like Artist ’60 models the ‘70’s have incredible tone and the rosewood helps to accentuate the highs and lows just a tad more.
The 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 really release the energy a solid soundboard can generate. The all-new Artist Series is built to do exactly this.
Each model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce a tone and player experience, rarely found in affordable instruments.
The sound is warm, open and powerful, and both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other. These guitars feel right and are exciting to play and responsive.
The solid ‘A’ grade Sitka spruce tops are hand selected from quarter-sawn wood. This ensures consistent quality, and its no secret better guitars are made from better wood. These tops not only look great but they are stiff and strong and finely grained. This allows them to be cut just that tiny bit thinner, which lets them dance a little more and produce a lot more vibration, and ultimately a richer tone.
New Artist Series guitars look stunning and all of their components are made of natural materials such as mother of pearl and abalone inlays, real bone saddles and nuts and rosewood appointments.
Features
- Parlor Acoustic Guitar
- Hand selected, ‘A’ grade, solid Sitka spruce top
- Hand sanded, scalloped bracing
- Rosewood back and sides
- Vented headstock
- Alvarez bi-level rosewood bridge
- Rosewood fingerboard
- Premium, high gloss finish
- Dovetail neck joint
- Real bone nut and saddle
- Paua abalone and mother of pearl inlays
- Premium open gear tuners
- ABS binding
Grab this sweet little guitar to keep in your parlour when the mood strikes. Order today.
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Pros
- Consistent
- Exc Price
- Fairly Good Intonation
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Volume And Sustain
- Projects Well
Cons
- Needs Adjustment
- Nut Too High
- Saddle Needed Lowering
- Tuners Need Gator Aide
Best Uses
- A Nice Parlor For The
- Nut Work And Tuner
- Price But May Need
Comments about Alvarez Artist Series AP70 Parlor Guitar:
I like it. Better than most much more expensive parlors I have tried. Please recall I am comparing this to other parlors. Obviously it will not sound like a good dread.
Pros
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Portable Comfortable
Cons
Best Uses
- Practicing
Comments about Alvarez Artist Series AP70 Parlor Guitar:
One of the best if not the best parlor guitar. Not a dread in tone, but very nice for the size. Especially nice for the price. Wish the string spacing at the bridge was a mite wider, but its not bad. Overall, you can not go wrong with this parlor.
Pros
- Easy Playability
- Fast Fretboard
- Full Sound
- Great intonation
- No Frills
- Unique
Cons
- No drawbacks at all
Best Uses
- Listening to yourself pla
Comments about Alvarez Artist Series AP70 Parlor Guitar:
All around great offering from Alvarez!!
If you want a parlor, give this one a try. The Rosewood, despite being laminate, really shows in the tonality of the instrument. It's very defined and woody/percussive in nature. I don't think there's even another parlor available in rosewood at this price-point.
A best buy under $500. I considered a Taylor GS Mini, but this was half the price for an equally worthy instrument. Also try the Recording King RP06 for a quality mahogany backed parlor. Also well worth the cost. Similar to the AP70 but 25.4" scale and gloss finish on neck as opposed to satin on the Alvarez.
Not dissing the GS mini either, it's also a highly underrated guitar, but it does cost $500. Buy the Alvarez AP70 unless 14 clear frets is an absolute must. No other drawbacks.
Comments about Alvarez Artist Series AP70 Parlor Guitar:
As I said above, this guitar was very playable right out of the box. In spite of the slight issues with the action and the tuners -which could be corrected by your local tech- I am very satisfied with this instrument. The size is fun, so is the 12-fret neck once you get use to it. I really like the minimalist effect of the guitar, nothing too fancy but a nice abalone rosette, single inlay at the 12th fret, and simple headstock logo -just the Alvarez logo, not the name; the name is on the back of the headstock. So may not like the pickguard (if yours comes with it) but it can be easily removed or changed. I'm rather fussy about things like bridge pins and tuners, so I'm really glad the AP70 came with wooden bridge pins. I put Grover tuners on ALL my guitars so the tight tuner was not really an issue for me. Due to the small size of this guitar, I used a Planet Waves woven strap to hold it up and/or play sitting in classical position. It's a good alternative to a 3/4 size guitar if you have a kid who plays guitar or if you are a really small person. The tone of this guitar is very deep and mellow, I'm not big on the D'Addario EXP strings but they're good strings and strings are a personal issue for everyone anyway. If you are interested in a 12-fret parlor, definitely buy this guitar. Would ABSOLUTELY replace is lost of stolen!
To review the specs: Solid sitka spruce top. Laminate Rosewood B/S. Bone nut and saddle. Abalone rosette, chrome tuners. Great parlor guitar for the price, most others are at least twice as expensive. I got mine directly from St. Louis Music so I didn't have to wait. Mine came with the standard black Alvarez-shaped pickguard. Wooden bridge pines (snakewood, I believe) which is rare on a guitar in this price range.
Nice clean construction inside and out No excess glue or cracked bracing. No blemishes on the outside. Tuners are a bit tight (I switched mine to Grovers). Action a bit high, nut could be sanded a bit but still very playable. Nice deep tone. Very playable right out of the box.
This guitar really can't be beat for it's price. Parlors are becoming more and more popular but most still cost at least twice as much. I've played parlors in the $700 range or more with just as high quality. Since cases for parlors are hard to come by, I think Alvarez should throw in a gig bag for an extra $50 or maybe a hardshell for a bit more?
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