Metropolitan

The Metropolitan series is built from HPL — high-pressure laminate — and that is the reason to consider it in India.

A wooden guitar moves with humidity. Through a Delhi summer and then a dry winter, a solid-top guitar needs looking after: a case, a humidifier, attention. HPL does not care. It does not swell, crack or warp, and it shrugs off knocks that would mark timber.

Spruce-pattern tops over Auditorium, Dreadnought, Super Folk and Orchestra bodies, all with Venetian cutaways, all with electronics, all with a bag.

This is the guitar to buy if it will live on a stand in a humid room, travel in the back of a car, or be learned on by someone who is not yet careful with instruments.