If you can't afford the real thing but still hanker after a classic-styled dreadnought, add Sigma to your must-try list. For the money it's superbly built with good quality materials and sounds fantastic - irrespective of their heritage and inspiration. Still, our Sigma review model stands up to scrutiny in its own right. Be it the headstock shape, the logo design, the shape of the bridge or the dimensions, everything shouts Martin. Sigma used to be Martin-owned and this Sigma is undeniably Martin-like.

In short, it's a fine-sounding instrument.Īnd you can't change history. Producing what will perhaps become a signature sound for these Sigmas, the DR-41's timbre is like that of the DR-28: plump, lush and full. Striking out first position chords we are impressed with the DR-41's sound. The quoted nut width of 42.86mm (1.69 inches) is as you'd find on a standard Martin dreadnought and while perhaps not best suited to fingerstyle playing, it is a happy medium for the cross-genre guitarist. The gold-plated Grover tuners also play their part in making the DR-41 an altogether posher-looking guitar than its stablemate the DR-28. A tortoiseshell pickguard lifts the guitar's appearance too, as does the white binding that's applied to the fingerboard and headstock. The DR-41, from the Standard series, is adorned with generous ornamentation as featured within the soundhole rosette, the top's edging and hexagon-shaped fretboard markers. The Sigma catalogue has four ranges: the 1-series, the all-mahogany 15-series, plus the Standard and Vintage series. 'The DR-41's timbre is plump, lush and full.'Ĭompleting something of a complicated circle, Martin Guitars' UK distributor, Westside Distribution, is now importing Sigma Guitars into the UK. But now the marque, which was withdrawn in 2007, has been given new life after being purchased by AMI, a German-based distributor of high-end acoustic and classical guitars. Precious few ever make it to the second-hand market and a simple Google search for Sigma Guitars turns up a whole array of websites, communities and fan sites.

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