Breedlove PRCO44CERWIR Premier Concerto CE Acoustic Electric. Edgeburst. Redwood-El Rosewood

Tone first. Make a bold stroke with a professional grade Premier Concerto. Connoisseurs love redwood’s immediate, responsive symmetry of cedar’s warmth and spruce’s brilliance. Favored by fingerstylists, but growing in popularity with all types of players, redwood enhances rosewood’s blossom of overtones for a new, enchanting guitar experience. This comfortable soft cutaway dreadnought-like Concerto, designed with heavy play in mind, has a huge, enveloping aura, it’s a close friend for a lifetime. You’ll never put it down.

Breedlove, always pioneering, has been building with redwood tops for over 25 years. A majestic native tonewood, it has a stiffness similar to spruce, but offers fingerstylists a rich, warm palette with a soft cedar-like attack and overtones often described like wine, with hints of chocolate and cinnamon. Flatpickers love its distinctive note separation, and its simple beauty connects directly with the earthiness of its sound. Hardshell case included!

Features 

• Handcrafted in Bend, Oregon
• 100% sustainably sourced tonewoods preserve the planet’s natural resources for future generations
• East Indian rosewood back and sides create a warm, resonant tonal foundation
• Redwood top adds generous articulation and smooth sustain
• Sound Optimization brings out the best in each tonewood
• Hand-voicing targets specific frequencies for unmatched sonic consistency
• LR Baggs Element electronics re-create a natural plugged-in tone
• Slim neck profile facilitates effortless playing
• Pinless bridge makes string changes a walk in the park
• Includes hardhshell case

Specifications 

• String Type: Steel
• Number of Strings: 6
• Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
• Body Shape: Premier Concerto
• Back & Sides Wood: East Indian Rosewood
• Top Wood: Redwood
• Finish: Gloss
• Color: Edgeburst
• Body Bracing: Sitka Spruce
• Binding: Tortoise
• Neck Wood: Honduran Mahogany
• Neck Shape: Slim C
• Radius: 16"
• Fingerboard Material: African Ebony
• Fingerboard Inlay: Polyester/Spalted Maple Interlocking Diamonds
• Number of Frets: 20
• Scale Length: 25.5"
• Nut Width: 1.75"
• Nut/Saddle Material: TUSQ/TUSQ
• Bridge Material: African Ebony
• Tuning Machines: Breedlove Nickel
• Electronics: LR Baggs EAS VTC
• Strings: D'Addario, .012-.053
• Case Included: Hardshell Case
• Manufacturer Part Number: PRCO44CERWIR

Top-notch tonewoods

• The Breedlove Premier series features premium tonewoods that were responsibly and sustainably sourced by Breedlove's team of wood experts. This guitar, the Premier Concerto CE, features solid East Indian rosewood back and sides with a solid redwood top. By combining rosewood's powerful bass response and extra-present midrange with the sparkling articulation and clarity of redwood, this guitar creates a nicely balanced tone with tons of resonance. Made from sustainably sourced, non-clear-cut tonewoods, the Premier Concerto CE is a guitar that sounds just as good as it looks. And when you hit the stage, the Premier Concerto CE’s LR Baggs Element electronics deliver a plugged-in tone that will leave your audience speechless. When you open the case for the first time, you’ll get a Guitar Portrait that calls out your guitar’s specifics from its weight and thickness to where the tonewoods were sourced.

Hand-voiced for uncompromising performance

• With Breedlove, you’ll experience a level of performance and sonic consistency that are hard to find anywhere else. How do they accomplish such a feat? By employing their state-of-the-art Sound Optimization process and hand-voicing for each guitar they build in Bend, Oregon. It all begins with sanding each tonewood until it reaches a weight that brings out the best possible sound (most builders sand to a uniform thickness). After the braces are attached, highly skilled luthiers use soft felt mallets, microphones, and specialized computer software to analyze the frequency response of the top and back. From here, the same luthier voices the bracing by hand, targeting specific frequencies along the way.
• By combining technological innovation with the art and craft of lutherie, Breedlove ensures that each one of their instruments performs at its full potential. They fully believe in their Sound Optimization process. In fact, no instrument will leave their factory until it reaches its peak performance, even if that means they carve on the bracing through the soundhole. And for you, the player, it means that your Breedlove will come alive in your hands the second you play your first note. From the quietest fingerpicking to the loudest flatpicking, you get access to an incredible dynamic range — all without losing definition and note separation. Strum your final chord, and the guitar will reward you with long, rich sustain. If you’re not entirely sold yet, you will be when you pick it up.

The Breedlove Tonewood Certification Program

• Part of being a responsible company is knowing where your stock comes from and documenting it properly. That’s why Breedlove has created their revolutionary Tonewood Certification Program. Through extensive documentation and cooperation with local authorities and mill workers, Breedlove can tell you exactly where the wood on your guitar grew and how it was harvested. That’s just another way Breedlove shows their eco-conscious commitment.