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    <description>When the dreadnought was introduced by Martin now more than a century ago, it was not a guitar with a square shouldered body, 14 frets to the body, and a solid headstock. Rather, it was a slope shouldered model with 12 frets to the body and a slotted headstock. The body of a Collings DS is a little longer compared to its more popular D-model (see my D2H ), i.e. 20⅞” vs 20”, respectively. This affect the placement of the ebony bridge which is more central on the lower bout. Other dimensions of this model are a body width of 15⅝”, 4⅞” body depth, a total length of 40⅛”, but still a 25½” scale length. The Adirondack spruce top gives it a wide dynamic response. This particular DS is a Hill Country build, a recent addition to the Collings lineup, which gives it “... a strong fundamental voice that is both warm and woody.” In other words, more old time-y. These HC builds have a custom made, hand-poured tortoise pickguard with matching rosette, a Honduran mahogany neck with a DS Hill Country profile, and the Collings logo stamped on the back of the here slotted headstock with relic 16:1 gear ratio  Waverly nickel-plated tuning machines for slotted headstocks. And on this particular guitar the top has a 2-style Sunburst under the high-gloss nitrocellulose finish. But otherwise, it has similar specs and appointments as the aforementioned D2HA: East Indian rosewood back and sides, belly style ebony bridge with bone saddle, ebony fingerboard with gold Mother-of-Pearl long diamond &amp; squares position markers, zipper backstrip, and still an East Indian rosewood veneer on the front of the headstock. The webpage on the Collings site can be found here: https://collingsguitars.com/acoustics/ds2-a-hill-country/.
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