Kevin Ryan Nightingale Cocobolo Glacier Sitka Spruce 25th Anniversary

In 2026, The Fellowship of Acoustics will be celebrating its 25th anniversary, and for this celebratory occasion, we commissioned Kevin Ryan to create this anniversary model of the Nightingale Grand Soloist. We're a bit biased, of course, but what a beautiful guitar it turned out to be!

With its spectacular design, revolutionary design innovations, and beautifully detailed tone, Kevin's Nightingale Grand Soloist is a guitar that will always capture the imagination! The Nightingale Grand Soloist is Kevin Ryan's most versatile model, boasting a pronounced bass, iridescent highs, and a warm, sustained tone. It's equally suited to fingerstyle, strumming, and alternative tunings.

This Ryan features a back and sides crafted from beautiful Cocobolo, a tropical wood with fabulous looks and tonal qualities that give this Nightingale Grand Soloist its distinctive character. Combined with the Glacier Sitka spruce top, you get a big sound with impressive lows, a complex yet balanced midrange, and vibrant highs. This spruce spent decades in ferrous saltwater, and during processing, it turned out to have taken on a grayish to bluish hue due to oxidation. This process has aged the wood, making it lighter and more rigid.

The Acoustic Flutes provide superb projection, and the EO bracing with Honeycomb gives the guitar superb response, dynamics, and projection. Of course, playing comfort is paramount, and this Nightingale features Ryan's signature ergonomic bevel and a cutaway. Besides the beautiful tonewoods, the paua purfling and Cocobolo Arts & Crafts fingerboard inlays are the icing on the cake for this luxurious, eye-catching instrument!

Everything has been considered, from comfort to a majestic sound and stunning looks. The guitar travels in style with a TFOA passport in a Smooth Glitter Gunmetal Calton case.