Takamine Guitars News (May 2024)

A Whole New World: Exploring Alternate Tunings on Your Takamine

Imagine going through all the trouble to painstakingly learn dozens of chords, scales, and riffs on your guitar, and then changing the tuning of its strings so that nothing made sense anymore. Why, that might lead to… opening your mind to entirely new sounds that you could never get in standard tuning. Exploring alternate tunings like DADGAD, Drop D, Open G, and others is something many of the best and most innovative guitarists in history have done for decades. Here’s a guide that tells you all you need to know about some of the coolest non-standard ways to tune your Takamine that will hopefully give you immediate creative inspiration.

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G Series GN30 Demo by Jake Allen

Takamine's G Series GN30 is a value-packed pure acoustic guitar that combines solid-top construction with a beautiful gloss finish, great-looking appointments, and Takamine's compact but big-sounding NEX body style to create a versatile guitar that can cover a lot of sonic ground. Here’s Jake Allen to show off the great tone of a very cool guitar with a solid spruce top and okoume back and sides.

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Steve Postell and The Immediate Family

A supergroup of studio session cats, The Immediate Family includes very familiar names to anyone who’s looked at album liner notes for the past 50 years, like drummer Russ Kunkel, bassist Leland Sklar, guitarist Danny Kortchmar, and guitarist Waddy Wachtel. LA based songwriter, producer, session ace, and Takamine player Steve Postell joined them on their most recent album as well as in a film documentary, and is now touring doing the music of CSNY.

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Guitar of the Month: G Series GC3

Nylon-string classical guitars often seem to fall into just two categories: fine, handcrafted instruments that can be cost prohibitive for many musicians, or “beginner’s guitars” that are hard to play, don’t stay tuned, and are simply weak sounding. Enter the Takamine G Series GC3, a lovely classical guitar that features solid-top construction, a beautiful gloss finish, and all the full, rich nylon-string sound players have come to expect from Takamine’s acclaimed classical guitars. And, unlike nearly any nylon string classical guitar in its price range, the GC3 both fits your budget and has the playability and sound you’ve been seeking.

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Compact Body, Huge Sound:
Takamine's New Yorker Guitars

The story of Takamine’s compact New Yorker shape goes back a long way, to a time when it was common to keep a musical instrument in a small room of one’s home where guests could enjoy hearing or playing some music while they visited… hence the concept of the parlor guitar. Designed as a full scale guitar that’s perfect for smaller spaces — like a big city apartment, hence the name — Takamine’s New Yorker is both super comfortable to play and offers a distinctively airy and sweet tone that’s fantastic for singer-songwriters or for recording guitar tones that need to stand out in a mix.

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G Series GD51 Demo by Jake Allen

With no onboard electronics, the GD51 is pure acoustic goodness. It's a classy dreadnought that features deluxe cosmetic appointments, solid-top construction, and a warm, resonant sound that will bring out the best in your music. Combining a solid spruce top with black walnut back and sides, the GD51 pumps out all the big, bold tone players expect from a dreadnought. Here’s the always-great Jake Allen to show it off.

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Winner’s Circle: GY93E Sweepstake Winner Christopher Sullivan

Our recent giveaway sweepstakes for a Takamine G Series GY93E plus a GC-S hardshell case turned out to be one of the most popular, highly-entered promotions in our history. It's no real surprise, though; the GY93E is a fantastic guitar, and is right near the top of the entire value-packed G Series line. However, there could be only one winner, and it’s Christopher Sullivan of Memphis, TN.

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Spotlight: Takamine G Series Acoustic-Electric Basses

You know what’s cool about having a Takamine G Series acoustic bass? Literally everything. First of all, you get a mighty jumbo body that helps project its majestic tone. Second, you get the high quality of solid spruce top construction. Third is the fantastic feel and playability of a slim mahogany neck and 16"-radius bound rosewood fingerboard. Finally, you get the time-tested reliability and tone flexibility of Takamine’s TK-40B preamp system with a built-in tuner, three-band EQ and gain controls, mid-shift control, bass-boost switch and EQ bypass switch.

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Get More Free Music Training from Musicians Institute Online!

If you’ve just bought any Takamine guitar (or are planning to soon), you just got a lot more than you realized. Takamine USA is proud to have partnered with the world-renowned leader in contemporary music education, Musicians Institute, on a special offer for people who purchase our instruments: three free months of access to a wide selection of MI Online’s courses.

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Takamine Guitars, Cases, Apparel, and Accessories at ShopESP

Takamine is distributed in the USA by ESP Guitars. While we encourage you to get your next guitar from an authorized Takamine dealer, if you’ve looked for a specific Takamine online or your local music store and haven’t found the model you want, we offer a “BUY NOW” button on many of the product detail pages at esptakamine.com, allowing you to get your next guitar, case, or some cool Takamine merchandise that will be shipped to you straight from us.

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