A Vintage-inspired Dirty 30s Parlor
The Dirty 30s Series 9 Parlor Acoustic from Recording King is an update of a classic acoustic guitar with strong vintage stylings. The Series 9 Parlor sports a true parlor-size body with a shortened fingerboard scale that’s perfect for young beginners and on-the-go players. A whitewood body paired with a premium Sitka spruce top delivers bold foundational tone shaped to perfection by parlor curves and a modern X bracing system crafted from spruce. Sweetwater players love how easy it is to take this guitar on the go, in addition to how expressive it is for fingerpicking and recording. If you’re looking for a piece of the past that’s guaranteed to last, then check out the Series 9 Parlor from Recording King!
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Built for comfort
Recording King prioritizes authenticity and sourced this Dirty 30s acoustic guitar's dimensions from a historic “no-logo” parlor made in early 20th-century Chicago. It’s built for comfort with a number of upscale features and modern touches that improve playability without compromising aesthetic. Shapely true parlor dimensions ensures vintage articulation and playability that’s perfect for travel, gigs, and display. Meanwhile, a comfortable mahogany neck and ovangkol fingerboard ensure great playability whether you’re strumming cowboy chords or plucking intricate melodies. This instrument also features a “Thin C” neck carve, which makes fretting feel natural and easy up and down the neck.
Parlor power
Despite its slim size, Recording King went to great lengths to ensure this guitar has great volume and projection. The Dirty 30s Series 9 Parlor features a powerful Sitka spruce top that adds volume and depth; this species of spruce is an acoustic guitar classic, and a common feature on much pricier acoustic guitars. Inside, designers swapped inferior 20th-century parlor “ladder bracing” for modern X-bracing crafted for Sitka spruce. This bracing ensures forceful projection, even response, and balanced tone across highs, mids, and lows. Also onboard are a bone nut and saddle that outperform less expensive components, resulting in improved and purer tone.
Recording King: retro refreshed
The landmark Recording King brand traces its origins back to 1930s building contracts with the retail titan Montgomery Ward. During the early days of radio and recorded music, affordable but well-crafted Recording King guitars, banjos, and resonators swept across the nation far and wide. Now revived, Recording King hearkens back to those early days of production-line American instruments built for pros and budding musicians alike. Nearly a century later, these retro models take their cues from vintage designs for results that look and sound like their 1930s counterparts.
Recording King Dirty 30s Series 9 Parlor Acoustic Guitar Features:
- Premium Sitka spruce top infuses playing with warmth, volume, and power
- True parlor-size body with a 24-inch scale for comfortable playing and easy transportation
- Back and sides made from whitewood with a satin finish yield articulate, old-school character
- Neck built from mahogany with a speedy “Thin C” profile makes navigating the fingerboard a breeze
- Dovetail neck joint for strong resonance and better tone
- Short-scale ovangkol fingerboard with 19 frets and Harmonella Stencil inlays
- Upscale hardware including bridge made from ovangkol and nut and saddle made from bone enrich tone and performance
- Cross-lap X-bracing make from Sitka spruce pumps up volume and resonance
- Vintage-style nickel tuners for tuning stability with a touch of beauty
