Essel Balawan Signature Series

Balawan is a Balinese Indonesian Jazz/Rock/Ethnic guitar player, singer and songwriter. He better known by single name Balawan and as Asia's first guitarist that has developed the touch style technique with 8 fingers a.k.a. the touch-tapping style on a double-neck guitar. He formed bands: Batuan Ethnic Fusion and Gamelan Maestro Project, which combined the traditional Balinese gamelan music with jazz / fusion style, Balawan Bifan Trio (Balawan - guitar, Fajar Adi Nugroho - bass & Dion Wardyono Subiakto - drums). Balawan associated with Trisum (Trio Indonesian guitar-heroes project by Dewa Budjana & Tohpati). The founder of Bali Guitar Club, and the founder of Yayasan BUMI (Balawan Untuk Musik Indonesia - Modern, Traditional, Music and Art) Music & Recording School with Stage Hall.

Product Specification

 

- Body Material : Full Mahogany Body    

- Neck Material : Hard Maple 

- Truss Rod : Dual Action   

- Fretboard Material : Rosewood 

- Fretboard Radius : Compound Radius 14” 

- Scale Lengths : 25.5” 

- Fretwire : Stewmac® Wide Jumbo Fret   

- Number Of Frets : 24  

- Tuners : Original Grover® Mini Roto-Grip Locking Rotomatics 505 BC

- Pickups : Seymour Duncan® SH-6  Bridge, Seymour Duncan® APS-1 Mid

- and Seymour Duncan® SSL-1 Neck

- Bridge : Original Gotoh® VSV 400 P

- Knobs : Gotoh® VK3 Dome Knobs ( 1 Vol + 2 Tone )

- Potentiometers : Seymour Duncan® 500K

- Switch : 5 Way Schaller® Mega Switch

- Construction Type : Bolt On  

- Headstock Angle : 14 degrees

- Strings : D''addario® EKXL110

- Finishes : Goldfire Swirl Gloss