2011 Greg Smallman CD/CSAR

This 2011 Greg Smallman is a cedar and CSA rosewood lattice classical guitar in mint condition, with an adjustable neck.

Maple Lining and an Adjustable Neck

Built in Smallman’s later style, it has maple lining on the interior of the body and his adjustable neck design, which allows significant changes to the setup and action in mere minutes. The label reads “Greg Smallman & Sons Damon & Kym, 2011”.

Condition

Condition is like-new/mint – a powerful, sustaining guitar in the tradition John Williams made famous.

Greg Smallman and the Lattice Guitar

Australian maker Greg Smallman (born 1947) is the builder behind the lattice-braced concert guitar, which he first built in 1974. His cedar soundboards are very thinly built and reinforced internally not with any kind of traditional fan system but with a unique and intricate lattice of balsa wood, reinforced with carbon fiber, while a heavily domed and very thick back makes the body a very rigid and stiff outer shell, forcing all the vibration to the soundboard. These instruments are known for their great power and piano-like sustain.

John Williams and Other Players

Smallman’s instruments have been played for years most famously by John Williams, who recorded on them from the 1980s on, but also by several other concert artists, including Xuefei Yang, Ben Verdery, Craig Ogden, Tim Kain, Nicola Hall, Carlos Bonell, Miloš Karadaglić and even Paul McCartney. His sons Damon (from 1993) and Kym (from 1996) build with him, and from 1999 the labels read “Greg Smallman & Sons Damon & Kym”.