Review: ESP AC30E QM Acoustic-Electric Guitar
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Guitar World's Paul Riario reviews the ESP AC30E QM acoustic-electric guitar, a grand auditorium cutaway acoustic-electric with quilted maple top, back and sides, as well as a mahogany neck and rosewood fretboard and bridge.
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Paul Riario has been the tech/gear editor and online video presence for Guitar World for over 25 years. Paul is one of the few gear editors who has actually played and owned nearly all the original gear that most guitarists wax poetically about, and has survived this long by knowing every useless musical tidbit of classic rock, new wave, hair metal, grunge, and alternative genres. When Paul is not riding his road bike at any given moment, he remains a working musician, playing in two bands called SuperTrans Am and Radio Nashville.

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