Description
Designed in Los Angeles, the Orangewood Florence Retro Live encapsulates the timeless design and sound of the Parlour acoustic body shape. Favoured by many due to its sweet, characterful tone, this acoustic shape is often regarded as the perfect choice for fingerstyle guitar.
The Florence Retro Live features a Solid Spruce top, which helps to provide a clear, resonant tone with a sweet and musical top end. Its Rosewood fingerboard adds some warmth to the tone and also provides a smooth feeling playing experience, and thanks to its LR Baggs Element pickup system, getting a natural-sounding live sound couldn’t be easier!
Orangewood Guitars
Founded in 2018, Orangewood Guitars set out to offer a line of instruments that embraces the heritage and timeless design of many of the most revered models, but with a modern twist that helps put their guitars in the hands of players at all stages of their musical journey.
Based in Los Angeles, California, this small team of guitarists set out to offer the very best acoustic and electric guitars at the most pocket-friendly price possible. Fuelled by the influence and impact that guitar and music had on them as individuals, as well as their collective passion for design, tone and quality, Orangewood has quickly established themselves as one of the most talked about modern guitar brands.
Utilising classic body shapes as well as tried and tested tonewood combinations and building methods, these guitars provide the perfect building blocks for beginners and professionals alike, whether at home, on stage or in the studio.
Key Features
- Solid Spruce Top – Favoured for its unrivalled projection, articulation and note clarity, Solid Spruce is widely recognised as one of the go-to choices for acoustic instrument tops.
- Parlour – This smaller acoustic body shape offers a more intimate acoustic sound with sweet articulate highs and a focused low end. It’s easy to manage, perfect for playing on the couch (in the parlour), and produces a sound that’s not overbearing and excels in fingerstyle playing.
- LR Baggs Element – Its LR Baggs Element pickup provides natural and warm, stage-ready acoustic sounds.
- Gig Bag Included – The included gig bag is perfect for getting your prized Orangewood acoustic to and from lessons, school or anywhere else you need to go. Its protective padding offers premium protection, and its large front pocket is the perfect size for all your accessories and books.
Specifications
Body
- Collection: Overland
- Body Shape: Parlour
- Top: Solid Spruce
- Back/Sides: Layered Sapele Mahogany
- Bracing: Scalloped X
- Finish: Vintage Sunburst Satin
Neck
- Material: Mahogany
- Fretboard: Rosewood (Sonokeling)
- Inlays: Acrylic Oversized Dot
- Scale: 25.5″
- Neck Shape: C
- Nut Width: 43mm
Hardware
- Tuners: Open Gear (Chrome Hardware with Ivoroid Heads)
- Bridge: Rosewood (Sonokeling)
- Nut/Saddle: Bone
- Strings: Ernie Ball Earthwood Medium Light 12–54
- Pickguard: 3-Ply Ivoroid-Black-White (Self Adhesive)
Miscellaneous
- Electronics: LR Baggs Element Bronze
- Travel Case: Gig Bag
