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Alvarez Artist AG66CESHB Grand Auditorium Electro-Acoustic Guitar in Shadowburst

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SKU: AG66CESHB

Product Description

Here's what Alvarez Say About the AG60CESHB

The AG66CESHB is an elegant and versatile Grand Auditorium offering instant response, clear middle frequencies, and great clarity. The Grand Auditorium’s narrow waist helps to accentuate trebles while the wide lower bout generates plenty of air volume for bass response, creating a dynamic and warm tonal landscape suitable for all playing styles.

The FS6 forward shifted bracing pattern allows for a larger soundboard area to heighten vibration, which is aided by a high-quality African Mahogany top and premium components throughout, all working together to deliver an engaging playing experience.

The AG66CESHB also features a cutaway for access to higher frets and is fitted with the fantastic LR Baggs Stage Pro with Element pick up for an unfailing live performance.

About Artist Series

Our multi-award winning Artist Series represents our commitment to quality and design, making it one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today.

Artist Series feel right and are exciting to play; whether you are strumming hard or picking lightly, the guitar will do what you ask of it. For a more focused sound with fewer overtones, choose a mahogany top. For a more open projection, go for Sitka. For warmth and response to a lighter touch, choose a Cedar top.

All of our tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, we won’t use it. While top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models, all are stiff and finely grained.

After 55 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes.

Our tonewoods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively soundbox.

This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.

The term “solid top” refers to the guitar’s soundboard being made of solid wood rather than laminates. However, even when the guitar top is made of solid wood, the tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this.

Each model is designed to get the best out of its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include our FS6 bracing design, which allows the soundbox to sing and brings uniformity across Dreadnought, Grand Auditorium, OM and Parlor body sizes. This means the voicing has a similar character, but the individual tone is more purely influenced by the size and shape of the guitar.

Our bi-level bridge is designed to heighten string tension and improve sustain and response. Real bone nut and saddle, premium tonewoods, and our crafted attenuated finish all further the quality of construction and positively impact the performance of the instrument. Artist Series gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible to optimize tone. The personality and voicing of Artist Series is open, dynamic and instantly responsive.

Specifications

  • Top Wood: Solid African Mahogany
  • Body Finish: Natural/Gloss
  • Back and Sides Wood: Mahogany
  • Shape: Grand Auditorium w/ Cutaway
  • Neck: Mahogany, 50/50 Semi gloss finish
  • Bridge: Bi-Level Indian Laurel
  • Inlays: Paua Abalone & Mother of Pearl
  • Fingerboard: Indian Laurel, 12th Fret Inlay
  • Nut and Saddle: Real Bone
  • Tuner: Premium Die Cast
  • Binding: Black ABS
  • Bridge Pins: Ebony
  • Strings: D’Addario XT Light
  • Bracing Systems: FS6 Forward Shifted, Tapered Tone Bars
  • Neck Joint; Dovetail
  • Neck Meets Body: 14th Fret
  • Number of Frets: 21
  • Pickup / EQ: LR Baggs StagePro EQ and Element Pick Up

Dimensions

  • Overall Length (mm): 1035
  • Body Width (mm): 404
  • Body Depth at Heel (mm): 96
  • Body Depth at Base (mm): 106
  • Scale (mm): 648
  • Scale (inches): 25 1/2
  • Number of Frets: 21
  • Nut Width (mm): 44.45
  • Nut Width (inches): 1 3/4

Customer Reviews

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Trusted Customer5th Dec 2023

Awesome looking and sounding guitar. Superb finish which I now know is the Alvarez standard. Love this guitars sound and looks. Just one note, the LR baggs built in tuner is not precise, so always have a decent tuner bought separately.

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr Calum Edward14th Jun 2023

Very nice guitar for the budget.

Value 5Looks 4Sound 4

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