CHAPMAN GUITARS ML3 Standard Baritone BEA Rabea Massaad Paleblood

British guitarist Rabea Massaad is one of the main faces of Chapman Guitars - he has already visited our meadows and groves as part of music festivals. So it's no surprise that Rob Chapman has been supplying him with new signature models.

The Chapman ML3 Standard Baritone BEA is a six-string baritone electric guitar in a modern T design. The alder body is adorned with a spectacular veneer of flamed maple. The Roasted Maple neck with a pleasing C profile is glued to an Ebony Macassar fingerboard fitted with twenty-two nickel frets. Body cutouts including a practical tummy cut and rounded fingerboard edges enhance playing comfort, while orientation on the fingerboard surface is facilitated by side dots and a distinctive inlay on the twelfth fret. Thanks to the longer baritone scale (711 mm), the guitar can also cope with significant undertones.

Two Chapman Henchman humbuckers, i.e. a classic humbucker at the bridge position and a mini-rail at the neck, give the guitar the precisely articulated dynamic sound required in contemporary instrumental music, as well as a relatively wide range of tonal colours. The instrument's sonic arsenal is expanded by the Push/Pull tone control with Coil-Split function, which turns the humbuckers into single-coils in seconds.

Tuning stability and good sustain are guaranteed by anchoring the strings in the company's 18:1 ratio locking gears and through a solid bridge through the body of the instrument.