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Pure Expression - From Songwriting to Performance!

Takamine gave the TF430SS nothing but a gorgeous solid cedar top. If you're unfamiliar with cedar, it's an extraordinary tonewood for fingerpicking and percussive playing styles — it quickly captures the nuances of your playing, enlivening your acoustic voice with warm, round tone. To complement the solid cedar, the Takamine TF430SS has a solid ovankol body. It's an elegant instrument with a subtle vintage vibe — the perfect songwriting partner. And with Takamine's CoolTube onboard electronics system, you can be ready for harmonic-rich acoustic tone onstage with your TF430SS.

Takamine TF430SS 6-string Acoustic-electric Guitar at a Glance:

• Perfect for nuanced playing styles — fingerpicking, percussive strumming
  
• CoolTube electronics system brings rich tone to the stage

Perfect for nuanced playing styles — fingerpicking, percussive strumming
If you incorporate a range of playing styles into your own signature style — expressive fingerpicking, a touch of impassioned palm muting and plucking, all-out strumming... you'll love the Takamine TF430SS. Thanks to its incredible solid cedar top, your every playing nuance will come to life with warmth and roundness — cedar is a very soft, very sweet-voiced tonewood. The solid ovankol body complements the cedar, giving you a very elegant, classic-yet-modern-voiced instrument for songwriting, evening strums, and performing out live.

CoolTube electronics system brings rich tone to the stage
The CoolTube preamplification system onboard the Takamine TF430SS brings its amazing voice to life onstage. What's cool about the CoolTube system is that there's an actual tube built into it. This helps add tube "warmth" and "roundness" to the instrument's amplified voice, giving you a more natural acoustic tone onstage. It also helps round out your dynamics with slight compression, so when you push the preamplifier, you get a naturally compressed tone instead of electronic harshness.

Takamine TF430SS 6-string Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

• Finish: Semi-gloss Poly
  
• Body Shape: NEX
  
• Rosette: Concentric Rings
  
• Top: Solid Cedar
  
• Inlays: MOP Dots
  
• Back: Solid Ovankol
  
• Sides: Solid Ovankol
  
• Fingerboard: Ebony
  
• Electronics: CoolTube Preamp
  
• Tuners: Pewter with Amber

The Takamine TF430SS acoustic-electric guitar is an amazing songwriting partner and a stage performance beauty!

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number TF430SS_35089