Grand Auditorium model boasts Fishman electronics and wider nut to allow for more comfortable practicing
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Hot on the heels of its new entry-level CG-45E acoustic-electric, Harley Benton continues to expand its budget-friendly acoustic guitar range with the CLG-48CE Wide NT.
The single cutaway, Grand Auditorium-shaped acoustic-electric boasts a solid spruce top on a walnut body, with a mahogany neck and 20-fret pau ferro fingerboard.
Other features include a wider 48mm nut to allow beginners, HB says, “more room on the fretboard for practicing chord shapes,” scalloped X bracing, a pau ferro bridge, black bindings and chrome die-cast tuners.
Electronics, meanwhile, are a Fishman Sonicore pickup and Fishman Presys-II Preamp System with an integrated tuner.
The guitar comes in a Hi-Gloss Natural finish and is available at a typically low price of $245.
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.