Takamine Guitars News (December 2019)

Takamine Takes the Stage at 2019 CMA Awards

During country music’s biggest night, Takamine guitars could be seen just about everywhere you looked, from Blake Shelton’s performance of “God’s Country” to Garth Brooks’ rendition of “Dive Bar” to Jeff Hyde’s accompaniment of Eric Church on “Some Of It”.

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GN11MCE Sweepstakes: Enter by December 31!

If you want to be in the running to win a Takamine GN11MCE, be sure to enter before the end of the year! Some member of the Takamine community is going to call this awesome all-mahogany guitar their own. No purchase necessary. Enter at the link below, and good luck from your friends at Takamine!

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Next Month: NAMM Show 2020

We’re perched at the end of the decade — can you believe that 2000 was 20 years ago? But we have much to look forward to in the coming new year, including the NAMM Show in January. Here’s a look at what visitors to the Takamine NAMM booth might expect to see!

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Artist Spotlight: Kyshona

Kyshona Armstrong began writing music as part of her role as a therapist and healer to help her patients use music to redirect behaviors and emotions. Her music has since been featured on NPR, HBO, and major prime time television shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC. “I’m a window into what they see in other cultures. Even if they don’t want to hear it, or don’t know what’s happening, if I told a story and played a song, I’ve done my job.” Read the interview with this inspiring musician!

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Takamine Guitar of the Month: EF75M-LS

Lutz spruce is a hybrid spruce from the Northwest, and its sound reminds us of some of the best qualities of legendary Adirondack spruce, while being a bit more dynamically forgiving. Paired with solid Indian rosewood back and sides, the limited-edition EF75M-LS is beyond an outstanding guitar. It’s one of the best we’ve ever made.

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Spotlight: Pro Series 5

One of Takamine’s most popular Pro Series category of guitars for professional performing musicians, these instruments all have solid spruce tops, solid rosewood backs and rosewood sides, 12”-radius rosewood fingerboards with stylish abalone “dot-in-dot” inlays, rosewood bridges with split bone saddles for faultless intonation, gold tuners and hardware, and the CTP-3 CoolTube preamp system for peerless amplified performance.

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Bad Wolves: “Sober” (Live Acoustic)

Bad Wolves, the rock/metal band that gained a huge amount of recognition from their cover of The Cranberries' "Zombie" in 2018, do a live acoustic version of their song “Sober” with guitarist Doc Coyle using his Takamine EF341SC, a guitar model played by a diverse range of musicians that include Bruce Springsteen, Bruno Mars, Jon Bon Jovi, Nils Lofgren and many more.

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