Breedlove Premier Concertina CE Acoustic Electric Guitar. Burnt Amber Adirondack EI Rosewood
Brand new! Not available for curbside pickup. Online orders only.
Tone first. Find pure 12-fret bliss with the professional grade, parlor size Premier Concertina. With its epic dynamic range, Adirondack spruce means business. It’s all about power. On an East Indian rosewood frame, Adirondack calls up ghosts of the Golden Age of guitars, with a muscular pre-war mystique all its own. Designed for light play, but ready for anything, this soft cutaway short scale instrument offers more than you might expect from such a tidy package.
The allure of a “pre-war” guitar? Most of that comes from the robust, powerful sound of an Adirondack spruce top. With an unmatched stiffness to weight ratio, Adirondack has put the energy behind hot bluegrass licks since the beginning. Now, coupled with Breedlove’s Sound Optimization, Adirondack is ready to thrill you with a lifetime of playing. And it rewards a heavy attack with an explosive response. There’s nothing like it.
Features
- Red spruce top and rosewood body
- Mahogany neck with "C" profile
- Ebony fingerboard
- L.R. Baggs sound hole mounted preamp
Specifications
- Body Type: Single Cutaway
- Top Wood: Red spruce
- Back & Sides: Rosewood
- Bracing Pattern: X
- Body Finish: Gloss
- Neck Shape: C
- Nut Width: 1.75"
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Neck Wood: Mahogany
- Scale Length: 25"
- Number of Frets: 18
- Neck Finish: Satin
- Bridge: African ebony
- Saddle & Nut: TUSQ
- Pickup/Preamp: L.R. Baggs soundhole mounted preamp
- Orientation: Right-handed
- Number of Strings: 6-string
- Case: Hardshell Case
- Country of Origin: United States
Concertina Body Shape
- Breedlove’s distinctive small body guitar delivers a surprisingly clear, crisp sound, and its short scale 12-fret design makes it a joy to play. Extensive Custom Shop engineering and experimentation has resulted in a modern shape that has a bigger sound and a more comfortable profile than a traditional parlor model.
Adirondack (Red) Spruce Top
- In a word—power. Red spruce breaks in with play, becoming ever richer, but from the start it offers the most energy of any guitar top, with a famously explosive dynamic range and a clear, balanced voice.
East Indian Rosewood Back & Sides
- The familiar scooped sound profile of a classic dreadnought comes largely from East Indian rosewood, which emphasizes round bass tones and clear trebles, leaving a valley custom made for the human voice. The same carefully sourced qualities offer presence and definition to smaller bodies, along with great dynamic range.
Sound Optimization & Hand Voicing
- Why do Breedlove guitars sound so good? It’s simple, Breedlove guitars are made with care, with the goal of allowing you to play better, sound better and play more. But it’s also complex, with art, inspiration, craft and science merging together in a process we call Sound Optimization. These models are hand voiced, with experienced luthiers meticulously tapping, listening and shaving away tiny curls of exquisite tonewood as they target specific, measurable frequencies that will make each unique, individual instrument sound its very best. The tone wood species are carefully milled, weighed and considered, with backs and tops specifically tuned to each other to create light, responsive guitars with superior tone and sustain.
Sustainable & Clear-Cut Free
- Breedlove uses no clear-cut woods in its Made in Bend models. It’s that’s simple. Featuring sustainably sourced all solid exotic and native tonewoods handcrafted by skilled luthiers who are as sensitive to the needs of the earth as they are to building the best sounding and playing guitars available anywhere.
The Breedlove Neck
- Breedlove guitar necks feature a slimmer neck profile which enables comfortable play, even with smaller hands. Unlike traditional dovetail neck joints that require major surgery for a neck re-set, it is easy to adjust the play action and neck angle with the Breedlove bolt-on neck and single-action truss rod. The hand-rubbed, semi-gloss Breedlove neck finish contributes to ideal playability – the finish process alone takes three days, including precise finish coat applications, fine sanding, and hand buffing and rubbing.