Veillette Guitars | Avante Gryphon
Ascend to New Musical Heights with the Sparkling, Rich Tones of the Avante Gryphon — Now @ CME!
You asked for it, and CME listened! Back by popular demand, Veillette Guitars’ Avante Gryphon acoustic-electric guitars have landed once again in the Acoustic Room at Chicago Music Exchange!
Designed by renowned luthier and lifelong musician Joe Veillette, the Avante Gryphon offers an accessible, exceptional-sounding route to a higher tonal register and powerful, resonant mid-range presence, both all-but-unattainable via just about any other acoustic-electric guitar-type instrument—except, of course, from the handful of U.S.-made Gryphons hand-built by Veillette and his three-man team based in Woodstock, New York.
Reach Transcendent Tonal Peaks with the Avante Gryphon
Based on Veillette’s most popular instrument model (just ask Dave Matthews, who has reportedly purchased at least eight Veillette Gryphons over the years) Veillette Avante instruments are licensed to be manufactured in Korea with strict adherence to the exacting standards of the brand’s namesake builder.
The Avante Gryphon’s shorter 18.3-inch scale (32.5-inch overall length) provides optimally balanced string tension across a custom, .009-.042-gauge string set. Outfitted with 12 strings tuned D-to-D—10 semitones/frets up from E standard tuning—in unison pairs, each Avante Gryphon delivers celestial, shimmering highs, a punchy, resonant mid-range, as well as a powerfully percussive rhythmic "chop.”
Created to serve as a songwriting tool, for doubling/layering recordings in the studio, and as a compact traveling instrument, the Avante Gryphon shines in a wide range of applications. For instance, guitarists can immediately play mandolin-style parts in a higher register using the same familiar fingerings, without learning new tunings. Or, the Avante Gryphon can offer a guitarist-friendly alternative to traditional folk instruments like the bouzouki, mandocello, Cuban tres, and Puerto Rican cuatro.
To learn more about the Veillette Avante Gryphon models now available in the Acoustic Room, call CME, chat with us online or in the app, or stop into our Lincoln Avenue showroom to hear how a Gryphon sounds for yourself.
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