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Takamine TAN15C Electro-Acoustic Guitar (Rrp:£1,318.80 / Red Dog Price: £1,099)
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Roberta Top Tune... Stanley Odd ‘Broken Has Morning’ The moment I heard this tune, I fell in love with it. It’s beautiful and filthy in equal measures (and by filthy, I mean pure bangin’). It makes me want to throw shapes on the dancefloor at the same time as sit back, relax and get high, so high. One word: goosebumps.
Alternative Recommendation Martin DC15E Electro Acoustic Guitar (£1,299.00)
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“understated elegance with some unusual twists.”
’m not a guitarist. I’m a singer. In saying that, I’ve played the guitar almost every day for the past year. I had a trusty Oakland for 7 years until there was an unfortunate accident involving a wardrobe and a It also includes a rare Cool falling suitcase. Thankfully, I’m lucky Tube preamp – the first and enough to work in an instrument shop only tube preamp in an so spent the next day drowning my acoustic guitar – which sorrows in the dulcet tones of our allows you to accentuate extensive range of acoustics. your personal style. Choose First stop: The Takamine Wall. I’d between a high degree of heard incredible things about Taka“CUT” for the more aggresmines but the one that happened to sive strummer; expanded catch my eye that day was the “sweetness” with fatter TAN15C. It’s part of the Supernatural lows and rounder highs; series - famous for their understated or voluptuous richness for elegance with some unusual twists finger-style players. thrown in: a genuine abalone rosette, At about a grand, gold tuning machines with amber it’s not cheap... pearl buttons, a pinless bridge... but there’s no Honestly, on first strum, it was pretty doubt about bright sounding for my liking but once it; it’s an axe I’d worn it in and applied a cheeky for life. Man. string change, everything fell into place. It has a lovely, warm, rich tone to it and I’ve had endless compliments on how mellow it sounds - and this is before it’s even been Buy online at plugged in. RedDogMusic.coat.uk the This model includes and use code ‘dog2’ Takamine’s Palathetic pickup, checkout to get 5% OFF your purchase or come which is known as one of the into the shop for most natural-sounding pickups. a demo!
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