Takamine Guitars News (April 2018)

Takamine Santa Fe Sweepstakes!

Built at our Pro Series facility in Japan, the TSF40C is an homage to Takamine’s legendary Santa Fe guitar series with its turquoise eagle inlay and beautiful rosette. This classy NEX-style guitar has a gloss finished solid cedar top and mahogany back and sides. It also features our acclaimed CTP-3 Cool Tube™ preamp system. One lucky person is going to call the TSF40C their own. See the entry form for complete rules, and good luck!

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Looking Good with the P1DC SM

Guitars are like ice cream… everyone has their own favorite flavor. With the P1DC SM, we’ve take one of the most popular guitars in our Pro Series collection and made it available in this tasty new Satin Molasses finish. The P1DC is built at our Pro Series facility in Japan, and provides great warmth, balance and harmonic richness from its X-braced solid cedar top and sapele back and sides, along with the highly acclaimed CT4B II preamp system with three-band EQ, volume control and built-in tuner.

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Linda Taylor on the EF400SC TT 12-String Thermal Top

Guitarist Linda Taylor, a respected player known from her time as a musical accompanist on Drew Carey's long-running improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, grabs the new Takamine EF400SC TT, the first 12-string guitar that makes use of Takamine's Thermal Top technology which gives musicians the desirable sound of a played-in vintage instrument in a new guitar.

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Now Available: Limited-Edition CP6SSDC and CP5D-OAD

Here are two very different guitars that share the common aspects of being collectible limited-edition guitars built by hand at our Pro Series facility in Japan. The bright and cheery CP6SSDC is a slope-shoulder dreadnought cutaway with a deep cherry sunburst finish that is made for the rootsy "Americana" sound. The CP5D-OAD is an elegant dreadnought that pairs the grand sound of its Adirondack spruce top with beautiful and toneful ovangkol. Both guitars are available right now at your authorized Takamine dealer!

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Should You Be Playing a Cedar or Spruce Top?

Not all guitar players are the same. Some of us play delicately, and others pound the strings like a jackhammer. Some do fingerstyle, others strum with a pick. The response of the guitar’s top wood, where most of the sonic character is found, makes a drastic difference in your overall sound. Read this article to learn whether a cedar top or spruce top makes more sense for your playing style, and then head to your Takamine dealer to try one out and see for yourself!

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Jonathan Gomez Demos the TH5C Classical

Professional guitarist Jonathan Gomez shows off the warm sweet tone of the Takamine TH5C concert classic, a guitar that features a solid cedar top for warmth and broad dynamic range and a solid rosewood back for excellent projection. It also includes Takamine's proprietary CTP-3 Cool Tube™ preamp system.

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Get a Takamine Guitar Strap Today!

We turned to Levy’s Leathers, perhaps the most respected name in high-quality instrument straps, to create this new series of straps envisioned by Takamine’s design team. The three new deluxe straps reflect the quality and tradition of your Takamine guitar. They’re available today from your Takamine dealer.

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