Abstract: A guitar including a sound box having a headward end and a tailward end, the sound box having a back, a sound board, and a side wall spanning between the back and the sound board, the back, the sound board, and the side wall each having inner and outer surfaces; a neck fixedly attached to and extending headwardly from the sound box's headward end, the neck having a distal end; a head stock fixedly attached to the neck's distal end; a bridge and saddle combination fixedly attached to the sound board; a channeled string anchoring block operatively positioned within the sound box and at the sound box's tailward end; and a sound hole opening the sound box, the sound hole being positioned between the bridge and saddle combination and the channeled string anchoring block.