Like all Collings, they have a crisp, loud, dynamic voice with a long fundamental tone (before breaking into warm resonances), which makes it easy for you and your audience to hear the detail in your playing. For the fingerstyle player, being able to clearly hear your thumb and having dominant treble string volume is the secret. You can hear your alternating bass line because of the volume and clarity that this instrument has. These lightened guitars have a sweeter voice and a looser feel and are dynamite instruments by anyone's measure.

CollingsOM2HCE Audio Sample

Features:

• Indian rosewood back and sides
• Engelmann spruce top
• Grained Ivoroid binding with herringbone purfling
• Ebony fingerboard and bridge
• Bone nut and saddle
• Nickel Waverly tuners
• 1 3/4" nut width
• 25 1/2" scale length

We frequently order small body instruments with Engelmann tops which is slightly less stiff than Sitka and therefore has a more harmonically complex, clear voice and a livelier, looser feel. The Collings OO2H is one of the instruments that I love as a standard instrument and which enchants me when we have an Engelmann top version.

Collings OO-2H - Engelmann Top Audio Sample

Features:

• Indian rosewood back and sides
• Engelmann spruce top
• Ebony fingerboard and bridge
• Bone nut and saddle
• Nickel Waverly tuners
• Herringbone purfling
• 1 13/16" Nut width
• 24 7/8" Scale Length