Wright Guitar Technology was a guitar repair and custom shop for 25 years before inventing the SoloEtte. When luthier Rossco Wright designed his idea of a good guitar he wanted something that he would not have to repair. This model is for the practicing flattop, steel-string acoustic guitar player who needs the authenticity of a real guitar which can stand the rugged abuse of an active lifestyle.

The neck is the standard steel-string guitar neck. The action comes set to the proper string height, and can be adjusted. The assembled frame accommodates a comfortable guitar shape in your lap and balances beautifully. The medium size frame piece which supports your right arm, is the edge outline of your guitar and you can rest the weight of your arm on it so your fingertips will hover over the strings right where you would expect. Because the gears are at the other end, this full sized guitar is 5 inches shorter. This reorientation of the gears creates balance and offers superior tuning access, as described below.

PADAUK HUMMINGBIRDS ON SALE FROM SOLOETTE!

We have designed a wood neck for the HummingBird Acoustic guitar. We have four Padauk HummingBirds available for each plus shipping. The wood neck on these special instruments is made out of straight grain Hard Rock Maple with an Ebony fingerboard. These HummingBirds have a nut width of 1-11/16" (nut width may vary, please ask for details) and 21 frets with standard acoustic fretwire. These HummingBirds also have mother-of-pearl face dot and side dot markers. Order soon because they will go fast!

Graphite neck: made by Moses Graphite Inc. is a solid structure of cast graphite composite. Awesomely strong and stable, smooth and silky to the touch, clear and resonant. With fully adjustable truss rod, standard acoustic guitar fretwire, there are 22 frets. It has standard side dots. The scale length is 25 ½ inches. The nut width is 1¾ inches. The string spacing at the bridge is 2 3/16. (Check out Moses Graphite web site www.Mosesgraphite.com)

Tuning: Tuning from this end is probably the way it should have been all along, but was not available to standard stringed instruments when tone propagation from thin woods would be hampered by heavy tuning mechanisms. Due to the design of the SoloEtte Guitar, the area behind the bridge is available for tuners. A classical guitar pegbox fits perfectly here, does not need to tilt back, and can be made stronger and thicker because the strings are spread wider. It is so nice to hold one string at the 5th fret and keep holding it while you tune the other string until it is perfect. Or tune while holding a chord and keep holding it with your left hand while you tune it perfectly with your right hand.

The Pickup is of our own design. It consists of a hollow tube with electronics and baffles inside. This tube forms the saddle. The strings vibrate the air inside the tube which gives it a rounder sweeter sound than piezo style pickups. And it is stereo for the headphone usage and can go out to a guitar amp or sound system in mono or stereo. You can plug your computer speakers into the guitar. Just unplug them from the back of the sound card and plug them directly into the guitar with the use of the jack adapter provided. This will allow low level, personal amplification that will bring the guitar up enough to play with another acoustic guitar.

Body wood is Hard Rock Maple (Acer Saccharum) "Canadian Maple" and Padauk is from Andaman Islands (India) or Africa.  It is a rich cinnamon red-brown wood that is very stable.  It sounds the same as the maple models.

Frame is solid ¼ aluminum rod covered w/ black polyurethane tubing

The Electronics uses a 9 volt battery with an easy access battery door. There are two output jacks. One is a stereo output for headphones. The other is a mono for send-to-amp performance usage.