A real performer that is highly expressive and dynamic, and features one of the most popular acoustic guitar pickups.
The GP-18E Grand Performance acoustic-electric model has been finely crafted with a solid Sitka spruce top, genuine mahogany back and sides and solid black ebony fingerboard and bridge. The combination of mahogany and Sitka has been one of the most popular sounds in a player's arsenal of instruments from the Martin Guitar Co. This popular combination has been enhanced with the Grand Performance body, and electronics, to offer an instrument that is both contemporary in playability and feel, and vintage in tone. A sleek modified low oval neck with a high performance taper offers ease of play up and down the fingerboard. Tortoise color binding and matching pickguard embellish this model. The onboard L.R. Baggs Anthem electronics provides you with stellar amplification whether you're in the studio or on the stage.
Includes hardshell case.
Includes hardshell case.
Specifications
Body
- Body type: Grand Performance
- Cutaway: No
- Top wood: Solid Sitka spruce
- Back and sides: Genuine mahogany
- Bracing pattern: Forward shifted pattern Sitka spruce scalloped X
- Body finish: Gloss
- Orientation: Right handed
- Neck
- Neck shape: Modified low oval High Performance Taper
- Nut width: 1.75 in. (44.45 mm)
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Neck wood: Mahogany
- Scale length: 25.4 in.
- Number of frets: 20
- Neck finish: Satin
- Pickup/preamp: Yes
- Brand: L.R. Baggs
- Configuration: Undersaddle transducer
- Preamp EQ: 1-band
- Feedback filter: Phase
- Tuner: No
- Other
- Headstock overlay: East Indian rosewood
- Tuning machines: Nickel open gear
- Bridge: Ebony
- Saddle and nut: Bone
- Number of strings: 6
- Special features: Top graphic
- Case: Hardshell case
- Accessories: None
- Country of origin: United States
Features
- Style 18 multi-stripe rosette
- Style 18 back purling/strip
- Script Old Style Overlay head plate logo overlay
- Faux tortoise heelcap
- Old Style 18 fingerboard inlay
- Finish with aging toner
- Modern belly - drop in saddle
- SP Acoustic 92/8 Phosphor Bronze Light strings
- Abalone fingerboard inlays
- Plek-machine setup