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Ribbecke Guitar Corp. 15cc Halfling™ Guitar

This guitar is truly remarkable. At just 15" it's small and compact but has an amazing sound due to it's Halfling™ top. It's similar in size and style to a Les Paul.

The 15cc is named after DAG's own Cliff Cultreri. RGC wanted to honor Cliff because "he is an amazing man and a great friend to all of us at RGC."

As the prototype for a new design Tom has spent many hours working closely with brilliant RGC Foreman, Mike, to design, build and perfect this guitar.

What is a Halfling™?
It's Ribbecke Guitar corporation's revolutionary design of guitar or bass in which the soundboard is flat on the bass side & arched on the treble side. The Halflings™ are capable of large, full fundamental bass response with the ability to hear and distinguish all the notes of a complex chord when ringing together. By combining the flat topped Steel String guitar with an Archtop Ribbecke has combined the best of both worlds!

SPECIFICATIONS
- Body Size: 13” Lower Bout
- Body Depth: 1.875”
- Back and Sides: Western Bigleaf Maple
- Top: Sitka Spruce or Western Red Cedar
- Bracing: Spruce X Bracing
- Binding: Black and White Purfling
- Neck: Birdseye Maple
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Width at Nut: 1.75"
- Width at 12th Fret: 2.2"
- Scale: 25”
- Nut: Bone
- Frets: 22
- Strings: D'Addario 12 - 52 XL Nickel Electric
- Hardware: Ebony
- Pickup: Kent Armstrong Floating Pickup
- Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Case: Cedar Creek Hard Case

Price: $12,000

RIBBECKE HALFLING AUDIO SAMPLES:

Paul Asbell:
- Autumn Leaves
- If I were A Bell
- My Favorite Things
- Summertime

Mark Guest:
- Bus Stop
- Emily

Lance Keltner:
- Halfling Blues
- Halfling Flat
- Halfling Strummed
- Halfling Sunshine

Mark Kleinhaut:
- Dock Sea
- My One And Only Love
- Smorpheus
- Softly Rise
- Street Light
- The OC Jam

Pete Snell:
- All The Things You Are
- Bossa
- Fingers
- Wings