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Cort Introduces New KX257B Baritone 7-String

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Metal-focused guitar boasts extended scale length and EMG pickups.

The newest addition to Cort’s KX Series, the KX257B baritone 7-string guitar is designed with modern metal players in mind and offers up active midrange bark and seriously low tones.

This baritone guitar boasts a 27-inch scale, EMG RetroActive Super 77 pickups, single volume and tone knobs, a three-way toggle switch, strings-thru-body hardtail bridge, die-cast tuners and black nickel hardware.

Woods include a double-cutaway mahogany body finished in black matte, bolt-on hard maple neck and jatoba fingerboard with raindrop inlays designed specifically for the KX257B.

The KX257B is available now for $599. 

For more information, head on over to cortguitars.com.

Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.