Breedlove Premier Concert Burnt Amber CE Adirondack-EI Rosewood
PRCN50CEASIR 850024751248
Guitar weighs 4lb 8oz
Adirondack Spruce - East Indian Rosewood
PREMIER CONCERT BURNT AMBER CE
Tone first. Stake your claim with a professional grade Premier Concert. With its epic dynamic range, Adirondack spruce means business. It’s all about power. On an East Indian rosewood frame, Adirondack calls up ghosts of the Golden Age of guitars, with a muscular pre-war mystique all its own. The pioneering light, versatile soft cutaway Concert body is suited equally to fingers or flatpick, with unparalleled dynamics, projection and sustain—it’s all you want in a stage-ready, studio-worthy guitar, and more.
Premier Concert Burnt Amber CE
FEATURES
The allure of a “pre-war” guitar? Most of that comes from the robust, powerful sound of an Adirondack spruce top. With an unmatched stiffness to weight ratio, Adirondack has put the energy behind hot bluegrass licks since the beginning. Now, coupled with Breedlove’s Sound Optimization, Adirondack is ready to thrill you with a lifetime of playing. And it rewards a heavy attack with an explosive response. There’s nothing like it.
THE BREEDLOVE NECK
Breedlove guitar necks feature a slimmer neck profile which enables comfortable play, even with smaller hands. Unlike traditional dovetail neck joints that require major surgery for a neck re-set, it is easy to adjust the play action and neck angle with the Breedlove bolt-on neck and single-action truss rod. The hand-rubbed, semi-gloss Breedlove neck finish contributes to ideal playability – the finish process alone takes three days, including precise finish coat applications, fine sanding, and hand buffing and rubbing.
PINLESS BRIDGES
The Breedlove Pinless Bridge helps maintain the integrity of the top by eliminating the need for six drilled string holes. The fewer holes in your soundboard, the more evenly the sound wave can move across the interior, without any loss of energy. The Breedlove Pinless Bridge provides a gentler string-break angle from the bridge to the top of the saddle, reducing saddle strain. This innovative bridge also makes string changes a breeze, especially on 12 strings. Plus, you’ll never again have to worry about lost, worn-out, or broken bridge pins — and no more jarring string “pop” when you’re tuning up and don’t have the ball-end of the string seated properly into a pin.
CONCERT BODY SHAPE
The Concert, Breedlove’s most popular body shape—designed 30 years ago and still going strong—is favored by discerning players for its versatile, balanced, articulate sound and its easy playing ergonomic comfort. This flagship platform performs equally well strummed or fingerpicked, and is perfectly poised for accompanying the human voice.
ADIRONDACK (RED) SPRUCE TOP
In a word—power. Red spruce breaks in with play, becoming ever richer, but from the start it offers the most energy of any guitar top, with a famously explosive dynamic range and a clear, balanced voice.
EAST INDIAN ROSEWOOD BACK & SIDES
The familiar scooped sound profile of a classic dreadnought comes largely from East Indian rosewood, which emphasizes round bass tones and clear trebles, leaving a valley custom made for the human voice. The same carefully sourced qualities offer presence and definition to smaller bodies, along with great dynamic range.
SUSTAINABLE & CLEAR-CUT FREE
Breedlove uses no clear-cut woods in its Made in Bend models. It’s that’s simple. Featuring sustainably sourced all solid exotic and native tonewoods handcrafted by skilled luthiers who are as sensitive to the needs of the earth as they are to building the best sounding and playing guitars available anywhere.
SOUND OPTIMIZATION & HAND VOICING
Why do Breedlove guitars sound so good? It’s simple, Breedlove guitars are made with care, with the goal of allowing you to play better, sound better and play more. But it’s also complex, with art, inspiration, craft and science merging together in a process we call Sound Optimization. These models are hand voiced, with experienced luthiers meticulously tapping, listening and shaving away tiny curls of exquisite tonewood as they target specific, measurable frequencies that will make each unique, individual instrument sound its very best. The tone wood species are carefully milled, weighed and considered, with backs and tops specifically tuned to each other to create light, responsive guitars with superior tone and sustain.
Premier Concert Burnt Amber CE
GUITAR PORTRAIT
We are pleased to present these detailed specifications for your 2021 Breedlove guitar, which was designed and handcrafted in Bend, Oregon. In addition to its dimensions, we have listed every piece of solid wood used in this model, giving its common name, scientific name and country of origin. We use no clear-cut wood. We salvage fallen timber or individually harvest trees to minimize impact on the forest. You can travel worry free with your Made in Bend Breedlove—no permits are needed. Still, if you plan on trekking internationally, we suggest printing this information and carrying it with your guitar to avoid misunderstandings or prolonged waits with customs officials.
WOOD AND ANIMAL CONTENTS
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Wood and Animal Contents
Top
Adirondack spruce | Picea rubens | United States
Back and Sides
East Indian rosewood | Dalbergia latifolia | India
Neck
Honduran mahogany | Swietenia macrophylla | Guatemala
Fretboard
African ebony | Diospyros crassiflora | Republic of Congo
Bridge
African ebony | Diospyros crassiflora | Republic of Congo
Headstock overlay
African ebony | Diospyros crassiflora | Republic of Congo
Body Binding
Tortoise/Plastic
Body Purfling
Plastic
Fretboard Binding
None
Fretboard Purfling
None
Headstock Binding
None
Headstock Purfling
None
Bracing
Sitka spruce | Picea sitchensis | United States
Back Strip / Side Brace
Honduran mahogany | Swietenia macrophylla | Guatemala
Kerfing
African Mahogany | Khaya senegalensis | Republic of Congo
Bridge Plate
Eastern hard rock maple | Acer saccharum | United States
Neck / Tailblock
Honduran mahogany | Swietenia macrophylla | Guatemala
Logo
Polyester
Fretboard Inlay
Polyester, Spalted maple/ Acer spp./ USA
Nut / Saddle
TUSQ
SPECIFICATIONS
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Specifications
Body Type
Concert
Cutaway
Soft
Headstock shape
Asymmetrical
Scale Length
25.5"
# Frets
20
Nut Width
1.75"
Lower Bout Width
15.37"
Waist Width
9"
Upper Bout Width
11.28"
Body Length
19.875"
Body Depth at neck
3.75"
Body Depth at tailblock
4.5"
Sound Hole Diameter
4"
Tuners
Breedlove, nickel
Electronics
LR Baggs EAS VTC
String Gauge
D'Addario EXP 16's
Case
Deluxe hardshell
