This is a good example of a , so called, boutique guitar of the mid-seventies. There is quite a number of meanwhile famous guitar-builders that established workshops at that time, to mostly hand-build and manufacture good quality instruments far off the mass-production of the great guitar companies like Martin, Gibson and Epiphone. Solid wood all over, high quality tonewoods and mechanical parts and excellent craftsmanship led to very fine instruments for the advanced player.

This is how brands like Taylor, Mossmann, Santa-Cruz and others came to life in the guitar-boom-times from the mid to end 60ies on. Allthough some of those companies went in mass-production some years later - others stopped their manufacturing - they all were starting off with the idea, to build high quality guitars in little numbers for demanding customers in significantly higher price-ranges than the cheap factory-guitars from the mass-production, that flooded the market at that time.

This particular LR-15 made by the late Augustino LoPrinzi in 1973 is a, so called transitional “blue-lining” model with brazilian rosewood back and sides , mahagoni-neck, solid spruce top, rosewood bridge , white body-binding, black plastic pick guard, golden grover tuners and the typical blue stripe around the top and the soundhole. The back is made of three pieces , which reminds , along with the white bound ebony fingerboard of Martin D-35 specs. From 1975 on LoPrinzi used indian rosewood for their guitar-bodies.