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Takamine GF30CE FXC Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Black Demo

6-string Acoustic-electric Guitar with Solid Spruce Top, Mahogany Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, and Rosewood Fingerboard - Black
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There is contamination on the treble side horn along with a dent in the same area. There are also fine scratches on various parts of the guitar that are not photographed. These scratches do not show well in photos, if at all. This instrument includes the following accessories; truss rod tool.

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Phenomenal Comfort, Style, and Playability!

The super-comfortable Takamine GF30CE acoustic-electric guitar is the small and fun instrument you've been looking for. Sporting a solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides, the GF30CE's cutaway FXC grand-concert-style body is incredibly easy on the arms, yet it gives you a ton of natural projection. A solid spruce top responds beautifully to even your lightest touch yet sings with authority when you lay in. Takamine's TP-4TD preamp is also onboard, waiting to serve up natural-sounding amplification and flexible tone-shaping when you play plugged in. Get the versatile, comfortable, great-sounding acoustic guitar you want for less with this Takamine GF30CE.

Great sound comes from an excellent choice in tonewoods

The Takamine GF30CE 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 GF30CE looks great and is tonally versatile enough to handle whatever playing style your musical mood dictates.

Takamine: decades of quality construction, great sound, and playability

The Takamine GF30CE 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 delivers superb sound onstage

The GF30CE 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 GF30CE Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

  • Accessible FXC grand concert body style is fun and comfortable to play
  • Solid spruce top with mahogany back and sides give you rich and balanced tone
  • Rosewood bridge and fingerboard feel great and look wonderful
  • Adorned with classy touches including chrome tuners and an abalone rosette
  • TP-4TD preamp with 3-band EQ and built-in tuner gives you everything you need to play plugged in

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: FXC
  • Body Style: Single Cutaway
  • Back & Sides Wood: Mahogany
  • Top Wood: Solid Spruce
  • Finish: Gloss
  • Color: Black
  • Body Bracing: Quartersawn X-bracing
  • Neck Wood: Mahogany
  • Radius: 12"
  • Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Dot
  • Number of Frets: 20
  • Scale Length: 25.315"
  • Nut Width: 1.6875"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Synthetic Bone
  • Bridge Material: Rosewood
  • 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: TAKGF30CEBLK

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Rated 5/5

Matched to a Vox vx 50 acoustic amp

Matched to a Vox VX50 acoustic amp and this is a perfect cafe' coffee house rig. The guitar is easy to haul yet built rugged and plays with a low action and good pickup and acoustic projection. I do a lot of voice and guitar gigs and find this to be a quick in and out yet maintains good crowd pleasing sound. The pickup and electronics are as easy to work on as doing a set up. it takes a nine volt battery to pre-amp the piezo pickup.
Music background: 45 years in the trenches.
Rated 5/5

Fantastic guitar

Love this guitar! Great action, great sound plugged in or acoustic! Can't beat it, especially given the price!!
Rated 5/5

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Great guitar for that price range quality construction excellent sound and playability. Sweetwater offers competitive if not the lowest pricing and their service is second to none.
Rated 4/5

Great Guitar, one heads up.

This guitar has a bright live sound (Martin lightwt strings) and looks very classy. Mine is sunburst. On board electronics are good. I like the tuner. Smaller body size and slender neck is very comfortable. Overall, great guitar. However, after playing it for awhile, I am developing a small issue. The output jack is incorporated into the strap button, and in between songs as I move around there is a creaking noise from the pressure of the strap on the button transferring into the jack; sounds like when you squirm in a leather chair. It's minor but irritating, and becoming more noticeable.
Rated 3.5/5

I like it

For the money, it works. Has a good sound, and plays well. I used it on a couple of gigs now, and it worked just fine, not great, but for the money not bad at all.
Music background: Hobbyist
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