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Guitarist october 2019

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FURCH MC

BLUE GC-CM

£1,100

WHAT IS IT? A grand auditorium

cutaway electro-acoustic

FURCH MC

ORANGE OMC-SR

£2,634

WHAT IS IT? A premium-grade

OM cutaway electro-acoustic

he Furch story starts back in the

70s when Frantisek Furch began

making instruments in what

was then socialist Czechoslovakia. In

those days it was difficult to find good

guitars, banjos and so on in the country

and anybody setting up a building

service was taking a risk as such things

had been forbidden under the former

communist regime. Imports were

prohibitively expensive and so Frantisek –

a metalworker by trade and keen musician

by night – began to build instruments in his

garage and word about their quality soon

spread among his colleagues.

Fast forward to 1989 and the final

collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia

and Frantisek, free from the former

political restrictions, opens his first factory.

By that time his reputation as a first-

class guitar builder had grown, although

Words David Mead Photography Neil Godwin

A pair of acoustic guitars at contrasting price

points from a builder based in the Czech

Republic – how will they fare in today’s

highly competitive marketplace?

True Colours

FURCH MC

VIDEO DEMO http://bit.ly/guitaristextra

A pair of acoustic guitars at contrasting price

points from a builder based in the Czech

Republic – how will they fare in today’s

highly competitive marketplace?

True Colours

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Furch MC Blue GC-CM & MC Orange OMC-SR first play october 2019 Guitarist GIT451.rev_furch.
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first play Furch MC Blue GC-CM & MC OranGe OMC-Sr 1 VIDEO DEMO http://bit.ly/guitaristextra 2 3 1. The MC Blue GC-CM has an LR Baggs Element pickup system fitted with a side-mounted preamp with a built-in tuner and plenty of EQ options 2. A fully compensated Tusq saddle sits on top of an ebony bridge 3.
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Furch MC Blue GC-CM & MC OranGe OMC-Sr 4. Furch guitars began back in the 1970s when metalworker Frantisek Furch started building instruments to supply local musicians in his native Czechoslovakia At this point we should pause to consider something not visible to the naked eye but a thing that Furch takes great pains to point out: the neck joint and truss-rod assembly.
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first play Furch MC Blue GC-CM & MC OranGe OMC-Sr 5 5. The MC Orange OMC-SR has Indian rosewood back and sides with flamed maple binding 6. A set of Schaller M6 tuners with a 1:18 ratio ensure that tuning is always spot on straight grain, top and back, offset with flamed maple binding. Visually, it’s a stunner. The OMC-SR shares the theme of neck and fingerboard materials with its companion, but the tuners here are Schaller M6 with a ratio of 1:18 to ensure a greater level of tuning accuracy.
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VIDEO DEMO http://bit.ly/guitaristextra Furch MC Blue GC-CM & MC OranGe OMC-Sr first play 7 8. Our review-model Emily Rose has a cedar top and rosewood body, but the model is available in other combinations Verdict There has been a buzz on the acoustic players’ jungle telegraph for years about Furch instruments and it’s thoroughly well deserved. Build quality is excellent and the facility to customise an instrument to your own taste is an additional bonus.