SECTOR SPOTLIGHT ACOUSTIC GUITARS
Cort L450 £279.95
Cort’s Luce Series features a collection of eight acoustic models, offered in parlour, concert and small folk cutaway body styles, constructed from exotic tone woods, including solid cedar and spruce tops, ebony fingerboards, and are trimmed with abalone and maple bindings.
Tanglewood Premier TW170 AS £329.95
The Premier series offers models in Dreadnought, Super Folk, Super Jumbo and Parlour, with unique to Premier models such as the TW170 AS and the TW145-12. They offer traditional Japanese Herringbone binding, ‘aged’ Canadian cedar and spruce solid tops, Kluson-style vintage machine heads and select mahogany single piece necks.
Yamaha APX 50011 £320
The APX line has a spruce top and the back, sides and neck are made of nato mahogany, with a rosewood fingerboard. Tuners are die-cast chrome. They have new piezo pickups and the proprietary Yamaha System-65 pre-amp. Retail is around £320.
dealer margins is making Roadster an irresistible proposition,” said the firm’s MD Tony Flatt. With a brief to create a best-selling
‘first guitar’ option for new players, Tanglewood designers took the very best ideas from different model ranges and made the Discovery series, which is available in Dreadnought, Folk, Super Folk and Super Jumbo models, and a wide variety of colours and finishes. The Discovery EQ offers a multiband
Tanglewood-branded, backlit LCD Tuner. All the packs come complete with strap, picks, tutor DVD and a Road Safety gig bag, at a UK start price of £139. Drawing on 1940s style vintage
instruments, Sundance Historic feature African mahogany necks with pronounced soft V profile and solid aged American spruce tops with genuine quarter sawn bracing. They also boast Dalmatian-type teardrop pick guards and a historic ‘tribute’ bridge design. “These instruments, selling at £469
in Orchestra, Slope Shoulder and Classic Dreadnought styles, are getting critical acclaim worldwide and reinforcing the Tanglewood philosophy of giving outstanding value for money,” added Flatt.
44 miPRO JUNE 2011 There are also over 70 left handed
variants in every popular style. Left-hand guitars command a 90 per cent ‘in stock’ ratio at Tanglewood, which dealers really appreciate. In the eight Tanglewood ranges detailed here, there are 134 model choices, and 24 left handed options. Cort says it is producing over a million models a year from its Indonesian and Chinese factories. The range includes acoustic and electro acoustic models, many of which retail far below the £500 mark, while still offering good build quality, playability and margins. Quality control extends to the
company’s HC Distribution in Ireland, where every model is unpacked, checked and set-up once more before onward shipping to the stores. All Cort acoustic models incorporate the company’s Electrostatic Coating Process, decreasing the finished lacquered thickness by 30 per cent, to enhance a rapid note response. This includes, from the new NDX Series, the NDX 20 six string electro-acoustic with its deep, single cutaway rosewood body and hand-picked, high grade solid sitka spruce top. Electrics include the Fishman Classic 4T Blend pre-amp system with
Sonicore pickup, which retails at approximately £449. Cort’s Luce Series features a collection of eight acoustic models, offered in parlour, concert and small folk cutaway body styles, constructed from exotic tone woods, including solid cedar and spruce tops, ebony fingerboards, and abalone and maple bindings. The Luce Series (La Luce, is Italian for ‘the light’) have been extremely well received with players and the media, with Guitarist magazine nominating the L450 (£279.95) as ‘Guitarist’s Choice’ and Guitar and Bass magazine reviewing the L500P (£429.95) with its solid red cedar top, herringbone bound solid rosewood body and ebony fingerboard, as ‘best value guitar under £500’. At £499, the L900 is the daddy of all parlours. The Luce Grand is the newest version, complete with gig bag for £199. Lastly, the Venetian cutaway SFX 5 and
SFX 6 samples, again constructed from solid tone woods, are priced at £429 and £469 respectively. Yamaha’s sub-£500 electro offerings
are the APX50011 and the slightly more expensive CPX 50011. The APX line comes in a variety of colours – Black, Old Violin Sunburst,
Natural Gloss and Oriental Blue Burst, with two new colours for this year – vintage white and red metallic. The top is spruce and the back, sides and neck are made of nato mahogany, with a rosewood fingerboard. Tuners are die-cast chrome. They have new piezo pickups and the proprietary Yamaha System-65 pre-amp. Retail is around £320. The chunkier CPX 5011s retail around £340 in black, natural gloss, dark red burst and old violin sunburst. They have the same spruce top, nato back, sides and neck and rosewood fret board. Aria’s range of sub-£500 models is led
by the £499 Aria SP75 Solid Sitka Spruce Top. It features a mahogany neck, back and sides, rosewood fingerboard and bridge and ELAN-4TN EQ with Digital Tuner. The AP Deluxe is also £499 with the same build plus chrome hardware and a 628mm scale length. The AD 28 has the same spruce build
with rosewood fingerboard and bridge and chrome hardware. It retails around £279 in Natural or Brown Sunburst. The AF35 once again has the solid
sitka spruce top, mahogany neck, rosewood back and sides, fingerboard and bridge and chrome hardware for around £329.
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