Grand Auditorium

Eastman AC122-1CE-CLA

Electro-Acoustic Guitar / HN268844

Description of product

The Eastman Strings brand was founded in 1992 by Chinese flutist Qian Ni after graduating from the Boston University School of Music. Over three decades, the company's portfolio has grown to include acoustic, semi-acoustic and electric guitars (Eastman Guitars) and with it the brand's fame, so that the company's players include such luminaries as James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers), Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth). In the case of Eastman instruments, you can rely on superior craftsmanship, demonstrated by features and techniques such as hand-cut ribbing or individual tuning of the instrument's soundboard.

The Eastman AC122-1CE-CLA is an all-massive Grand Auditorium-style electro-acoustic guitar. The front of the guitar is made of Sitka spruce, while the back and sides are made of sapele. An ebony fingerboard with 20 frets is glued to a mahogany neck with a pleasant "C" profile.

The rounded lower body cutout ensures good matching at the higher positions of the fingerboard, while the orientation on the fingerboard is facilitated by pearl position dots. The resonance of the top is aided by hand-cut ribbing (Scalloped X).

The strings are held in nickel tuning machines and an ebony fingerboard via a bone fretboard. Nice workmanship is accentuated by the double-sided imitation tortoiseshell body binding, pearl rosette, imitation tortoiseshell pickguard and pearl company logo on the headstock.

The guitar's sound system is provided by Fishman Sonitone electronics with a Sonicore sub-coil pickup and Volume and Tone controls discreetly placed in the instrument's soundhole. The guitar comes in a padded gig bag.

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