Bourgeois Downeast OMCE Soloist Orchestra Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar Gloss Natural w/ Case

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The OMC Soloist is one of Bourgeois’ most significant innovations. Co-designed with Eric Schoenberg and produced by Martin for Schoenberg Guitars in the 1980s, the original Schoenberg Soloist preceded Martin’s own reintroduction of its now iconic Orchestra Model, last produced in the early 1930s. Today, in all configurations the OM is the world’s second most popular acoustic guitar, a tribute to the vision and pioneering work of Schoenberg and Bourgeois. 

OM magic is created when a medium-sized body pairs with a long scale, 14 fret neck to produce a steel-string guitar endowed with exceptional balance and surprising clarity and presence. The OM became a Soloist when Bourgeois designed an elegant soft cutaway (itself widely emulated) that successfully complements an otherwise vintage aesthetic, while minimally altering the critical relationship between top surface area, air cavity volume, and string tension.

Bourgeois’ Downeast OMCE Soloist features an Aged Tone torrefied Sitka top, Indian Rosewood back and sides and a fingerstyle-friendly 1 3/4” nut. Respecting a now long Soloist tradition, the OMCE is simply but elegantly appointed with wooden bindings and purflings, short-pattern squares and diamonds fretboard inlays, and a rectangular vintage-inspired ebony bridge.

FEATURES:

OM Cutaway Body Shape
Solid Thermo-Cured Sitka Spruce Top
Solid East Indian Rosewood Back and Sides
Aged Tone Natural Gloss Finish
Honduran Mahogany Neck
Ebony Fretboard
Abalone Snowflake Fretboard Inlays
25.5" Scale Length
1-3/4" Nut Width
Ebony Bridge
LR Baggs HiFi Pickup System
Multi-Ply 3-Ring Soundhole Rosette
Black Body Binding
Multi-Ply Top Purfling
Bone Nut
Bone Saddle
Bone Bridge Pins w/ Black Dot Inlay
Figured Ziricote Headstock Overlay
Mother of Pearl Headstock Logo
Vintage Open Gear Tuning Machines w/ Butterbean Buttons
Bourgeois Hardshell Case Included