Nylon strings offer timeless appeal.
The Ibanez GA5TCE3Q classical guitar brings the rich, warm tone of nylon strings together with modern playability. With electronics designed for plugging straight into a PA, the versatile GA5TCE3Q lets you take your classical technique from practice room to stage. This Ibanez classical guitar has a comfortable okoume neck and vibrant purpleheart fingerboard for smooth playing feel. Its crisp spruce top and warm sapele back and sides create balanced nylon-string tone. The Ibanez undersaddle pickup accurately captures your playing acoustically, while the AEQ-2T preamp provides intuitive tone shaping and built-in tuning. The resonant purpleheart bridge transfers string vibrations into ringing tone. With its narrow 46 mm nut width and lightweight thinline cutaway body, the GA5TCE3Q gives you an accessible classical guitar optimized for performance.
Play Comfortably With the Okoume Neck and Purpleheart Fingerboard
An inviting okoume neck encourages you to keep playing the GA5TCE3Q. Its smooth satin finish and slim profile create a slick, fast feel that makes it easy to play difficult classical pieces. The rich purpleheart fingerboard adds visual beauty while enhancing the guitar's warm, resonant tone. Together, the okoume neck and purpleheart fingerboard give you a comfortable, inspiring playing experience on the GA5TCE3Q.
Project With Clarity and Balance From the Spruce and Sapele Body
The GA5TCE3Q produces balanced classical guitar tone from its spruce top, and sapele back and sides. The lightweight spruce top resonates brightly to produce clear, articulate treble notes. Warm, full-bodied sapele provides a solid midrange and rich bass response. Together, these tonewoods give the GA5TCE3Q a balanced voice perfect for nylon-string repertoire from Baroque to modern styles. The thinline cutaway body enhances playability by reducing weight and allowing easy access to higher frets.
Plug and Play With the Ibanez Undersaddle Pickup and AEQ-2T Preamp
Take your nylon-string tone straight to the stage or studio with the GA5TCE3Q's built-in electronics. The Ibanez undersaddle pickup accurately conveys your natural acoustic tone. With its intuitive bass, treble, volume knobs and chromatic tuner, the AEQ-2T preamp makes dialing in your ideal plugged-in classical sound easy. Just plug into an amp or PA, and enjoy your vibrant nylon-string tone everywhere your music takes you. The GA5TCE3Q gives you an inspiring practice guitar and gig-ready classical acoustic.
Specifications
- Body type: Classical
- Top wood: Spruce
- Back & sides: Sapele
- Bracing pattern: Scalloped X
- Neck shape: Thin C
- Fingerboard: Purpleheart
- Neck wood: Okoume
- Bridge: Purpleheart
- Electronics: Ibanez AEQ-2T
- Pickup/preamp: Ibanez Undersaddle pickup
- EQ/Tuner: 2-band
- Special features: 46 mm nut
- Orientation: Right Handed
- Number of strings: 6
Features
- Spuce top
- Sapele back and sides
- 3/4 size
- Thinline cutaway
- Okoume neck
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12F neck joint
Narrower 46 mm width nut - Purpleheart fretboard
- Ibanez Undersaddle pickup
- Purpleheart bridge