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Takamine GN30CE Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Natural

6-string Acoustic-electric Guitar with Solid Spruce Top, Mahogany Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, Ovangkol Fingerboard, and TP4T Electronics - Natural
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Small Jumbo, Big Versatility

The Takamine GN30-CE acoustic-electric guitar will seduce you with its rich tone, stunning good looks, and amazing playability. Sporting a solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides, the GN30-CE's cutaway NEX "small jumbo" body is incredibly comfortable - even for smaller players. The GN30-CE's solid spruce top responds beautifully to a light, fingerstyle touch, yet will sing with authority when strummed boldly. Takamine's TP-4TD preamp is onboard, waiting to serve up natural-sounding amplification and flexible tone-shaping. If you're in the market for a versatile, comfortable, great-sounding acoustic, check out Takamine's GN30-CE!

Great sound is in the details

The Takamine GN30-CE acoustic-electric guitar benefits from premium tonewoods and Takamine's painstaking attention to detail. With its high-grade solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides, the GN30-CE looks great and is tonally versatile enough to handle whatever playing style your musical mood dictates.

Takamine - 50 years of quality, great sound, and playability

The Takamine GN30-CE acoustic-electric guitar benefits from a half-century of Takamine guitar-crafting knowhow. Launched in 1962 at the foot of Japan's Takamine mountains, Takamine has been designing and building acoustic guitars that are seen in the hands of some of music's biggest stars. With quality and value as guiding principles, Takamine's instruments employ the finest tonewoods, construction techniques, and technical innovations such as the proprietary TP-4TD preamp system found in this guitar.

Takamine's TP-4TD preamp system

The GN30-CE sports Takamine's TP-4TD preamp system, giving you rich, clear-sounding amplified output - instantly. A feature of G-Series guitars, the TP-4TD features a gain knob, a tuner, an active shelving EQ with bass, middle, and treble sliders, and a low battery indicator. The preamp is switched on by plugging a standard instrument cable into the endpin/strap pin jack. Unplugging the cable turns the preamp off. The TP-4TD is powered by a single 9 volt battery.

Takamine GN30-CE Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

  • Comfortable NEX "small jumbo" body style
  • Solid spruce top with mahogany back and sides for rich, balanced tone
  • Ovangkol bridge and fingerboard
  • Chrome tuners; Abalone Rosette; Dot Inlays
  • Electronics: under saddle pickup, TP-4TD Preamp with 3-band EQ and built-in tuner

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: NEX
  • Body Style: Single Cutaway
  • Back & Sides Wood: Mahogany
  • Top Wood: Solid Spruce
  • Finish: Gloss
  • Color: Natural
  • Body Bracing: Quartersawn X-bracing
  • Binding: Black
  • Neck Wood: Mahogany
  • Radius: 12"
  • Fingerboard Material: Ovangkol
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Dot
  • Number of Frets: 20
  • Scale Length: 25.315"
  • Nut Width: 1.6875"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Synthetic Bone
  • Bridge Material: Ovangkol
  • Tuning Machines: Chrome Die-cast
  • Electronics: TP-4TD preamp with built-in tuner
  • Strings: D'Addario, .012-.053
  • Case Included: Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: TAKGN30CENAT

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Rated 4.5/5

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The guitar is of good quality and also has a good sound, and the sweeetwater packs the guitar very well in transit.
Rated 5/5

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Nice guitar
Rated 5/5

Great guitar

I’ve been looking into get an acoustic electric for a long time and this guitar is just fantastic. It’s both aesthetically apprealing as well having a great sound to it. For the price it is most definitely worth it, great buy
Music background: Musician
Rated 5/5

This is a really nice guitar

Buying a guitar online sight unseen may not seem like a good thing, but I'm impressed. Sweetwater did a great job of checking out my new guitar. Packaged & shipped safely. It arrived in perfect condition. The action set just right. Ed even sent me gallery photos they took of my new guitar. I thought that was a really nice touch. I would be confident in purchasing a much more expensive guitar from Sweetwater.
The guitar itself is nice. the neck feels great and the tone is even better, played acoustically or through my amp. I love it. There are no flaws that I can find anywhere, fit or finish. It was worth the wait.
Thanks again to Ed & the rest of the Sweetwater team. Great job!
Rated 4.5/5

Love it in DADGAD tuning

My main concern was getting a guitar that would need further setup. After chatting with my mate at Sweetwater, Ken Davis, I decided to order this one. This guitar is awesome...tone is balanced and the playability is first rate. My favourite touch so far is the fact that this guitar does not have bridge pins to mess with. Anyway the only bad news is that I bought it for my son so I will have to order another for me! btw got it with the cloth Gator Case, very nice, especially the handle. thanks Ken :)
Music background: Professional Musician for 30 years.Now retired.
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