We refer to this lovingly as the "Crocodile Dunn-D" because:
a) it recalls the great Maccaferri D-soundhole guitar design of l930, and
b) it eats the competition for breakfast.
We find it to be a serious contender for best-sounding Maccaferri interpretation discovered to
date,with tremendous, machine-gun like, single note capability.
An internal sound box and reflector acts as a ported resonator which emerges, as seen through the soundhole, in alternating black-white wood ribs (is
this Japanese setting-sun motif the "Pacific" in the title?).
It has a 27-ring (count 'em) wood rosette in the shaped soundhole, a scalloped nut, a wide, flat classical-like neck, long ebony Maccaferri
style bridge, attached ebony and felt string-mute behind the bridge, ebony body binding, and ebony hand-carved strap buttons.
Luthier Dunn says this is "a lead guitarists' dream, [having] unsurpassed top-end
projection. The higher up on the fingerboard a musician plays, the more the volume increases."
There's no mystery about it, it is one very exciting instrument.
Stan Jay, Mandolin Brothers, Ltd.
