Breedlove Discovery S African Mahogany Concert Acoustic Guitar, Natural

Many discerning players love the focused, direct sound of single species all African mahogany guitars. Famously warm, with a unique mid-range clarity, such instruments, especially in smaller configurations like the versatile, comfortable, and balanced Concert body, are favored by roots rockers and songwriters from Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan right down to Jeff Tweedy and Valerie June. Breedlove's new Discovery S Concert is Designed in Bend with earth-conscious, sonically superior EcoTonewood technology and features a delightfully fast, easy-to-play slim neck profile. Highlighting the wood's simple straight grain, a natural satin finish makes this a modern take on a classic guitar. Discover the Breedlove ECO Collection—where the guitar meets the forest.

Concert body shape

The Concert is Breedlove's most popular body shape, favored by players because it is well-balanced, compact, comfortable to play, and offers all the qualities of a great-sounding guitar. It generates a wonderfully articulate range of tone with supple low end that is never boomy but always felt. The Concert works well when played fingerstyle, as vocal accompaniment, or at a full strum.

Solid Tonewood Top

Along with its body shape, a guitar's top is the defining element of its sound, driving, through its vibration, the key aspects of volume, tone, sustain, and projection. A solid wood top translates those vibrations with more immediacy and purity of tone and reacts more directly with the intent of a player. If you are at an intermediate level or above, you will appreciate the instantly recognizable benefits of a solid wood top.

Mahogany Top, Back, & Sides

Long treasured by cabinetmakers and shipwrights for its simple, straight-grained beauty, strength, and workability, mahogany—used in tops, backs, sides, and necks—is also one of the true classic tonewoods, famous for its clear, strong fundamental; even string-to-string balance; and warm midrange emphasis. Mahogany pairs well with spruce tops as well as with itself in single species guitars—and both combinations define much of American roots music.

EcoTonewood Back & Sides

With EcoTonewood, Breedlove makes laminate technology sustainable, introducing a resonant core tonewood layer of clear-cut free, individually harvested African mahogany in place of the typical tone-robbing softwoods used in standard acoustic guitar manufacture. Coupled with Breedlove's deep research into revolutionary body shapes, building to target tonewood weight adds to each guitar's optimized, natural sound in the ECO Collection. And Breedlove creates these better-sounding laminate guitars while being kind to the earth while maintaining an accessible, entry-level price-point.
Breedlove EcoTonewood—it's where music meets the trees.

Limited Lifetime Warranty

Breedlove players worldwide can attest: With consistent, proper care, your Breedlove will give you a lifetime of service – and inspiration. New Breedlove instruments, purchased through an authorized Breedlove dealer, are warranted to be free of defects in materials and workmanship throughout the original owner's lifetime. In addition to materials and workmanship, Breedlove offers a two-year warranty on tuning machines and electronics packages. Cases and bags are subject to a one-year warranty covering defects in structure and hardware.

Specifications:

• Body Type: Concert
• Neck Wood: African Mahogany
• Top: Solid African Mahogany
• Back & Sides: Layered African Mahogany
• Top Finish: Natural Satin
• Back & Side Finish: Natural Satin
• Fretboard: Ovangkol
• # Frets: 20
• Nut Width: 1.69"
• Tuners Hardware: Chrome Closed Gear
• Lower Bout Width: 15.37"
• Waist Width: 9"
• Upper Bout Width: 11.28"
• Body Length: 19.875"
• Body Depth: 3.58" (neck), 4.2" (tail)
• String Gauge: D'Addario XT Phosphor Bronze Light
• Bridge: Ovangkol
• Binding: Black
• Inlay: Centered Dots
• Case: Not included
• Scale Length: 25.3"
• Soundhole: 3.94"
• Designed in Bend, Oregon, USA. Crafted In China