Today, industry leader Breedlove Guitars announces the groundbreaking Organic Collection, which brings four series of sustainably sourced all solid wood acoustic/electric guitars, featuring FSC-certified exotic tonewoods and its pioneering native Oregon myrtlewood, to market at revolutionary prices.
Designed in Bend, with each series available in four distinctive Breedlove body shapes, models in the Organic Collection offer, in addition to all solid woods, thin UV finishes, Breedlove Natural Sound electronics and trademark playability. With no synthetic materials and less than half the glue of similar instruments, guitars in the Organic Collection—all informed by Breedlove’s Sound Optimization research—are light, responsive and affordable, sounding like high-end U.S. models at a quarter of the price.
In the Signature, Performer and Artista Series, torrefied European spruce tops deliver an “aged” sound, rich in classic tone and sustain, while resistant to changes in temperature and humidity. The Wildwood Series will appeal to fans of folk, blues and Americana, with African Mahogany tops imparting a warm, open, midrange voice.
As part of a three-year journey to create the Organic Collection, Two Old Hippies founder Tom Bedell visited forests and mills in the Republic of Congo and the Swiss Alps, ensuring, as with all U.S. models (and in line with Breedlove’s Tonewood Certification Project), that no clear-cut wood would be used.
“We only have one earth,” says Bedell. “We’re proving that an amazing, sustainable, all solid wood instrument can be brought to market at revolutionary prices, while respecting our planet. We’ve done it. We’re building tomorrow’s guitars today.”
The Organic Collection will be available Jan. 1, with additional unveiling ceremony and “Sustainability and the Music Industry” panel, moderated by NAMM Foundation Executive Director Mary Luehrsen, at 2020 NAMM Show.
