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Takamine GC5CE Nylon String Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Natural

Nylon-string Acoustic-electric Guitar with Solid Spruce Top, Black Walnut Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, and Laurel Fingerboard - Natural
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The Perfect Step-up Classical A/E!

Stepping up to an acoustic-electric classical guitar? Sweetwater has the perfect instrument! The Takamine GC5CE looks great, plays smoothly, and delivers beautiful nylon-string sound, whether you're plugged in or playing acoustically. If you're on a budget, you'll be happy to know that the GC5CE punches above its price range with a fan-braced solid spruce top and black walnut back and sides for balanced, full-bodied tone. This instrument's comfortable mahogany neck and Laurel fingerboard feels just right, while the graceful Venetian cutaway gives you easy access to upper registers.

Takamine GC5CE Nylon-string Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

  • Fan-braced solid spruce top; laurel back and sides
  • Graceful Venetian cutaway gives you easy access to upper registers
  • Comfortable mahogany neck with Laurel fingerboard
  • Dovetail neck joint; inlaid mosaic rosette
  • Takamine TP-4T preamp with 3-band EQ and built-in tuner
  • Gold die-cast tuners with pearl buttons

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Nylon
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Body Shape: Classical
  • Body Style: Single Cutaway
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Finish: Gloss
  • Top Wood: Solid Spruce
  • Back & Sides Wood: Black Walnut
  • Body Bracing: Classical Fan
  • Neck Wood: Mahogany
  • Fingerboard Material: Laurel
  • Number of Frets: 19
  • Scale Length: 25.59"
  • Tuning Machines: Gold die-cast tuners with pearl buttons
  • Bridge Material: Laurel with Compensated Saddle
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Synthetic Bone
  • Nut Width: 2"
  • Electronics: Takamine TP-4T preamp with 3-band EQ and built-in tuner
  • Strings: Nylon
  • Case Included: Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: TAKGC5CENAT

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Worth the price and more

After trying several nylon rigs and being disappointed with most, I finally found the one for right for me. There are better ones I'm sure, but for long time steel stringers looking to try nylon this is one is perfect. Plays great - I pick it up almost every time I sit down to pick a little - it has certainly broadened by playing. Thanks to the good folks at Sweetwater for hooking me up with this guitar. I look to these guys every time I have a little extra cash to invest in my "hobby." Give the Takamine a try - you won't be disappointed.
by davec5 from texas on

Love how tis guitar plays

Plays beautifully and has a warm tone when plugged in. Should have bought this guitar years ago.
by Sweetwater Customer on
Music background: Professional musician

Takamine GC5CE

Great guitar for the intermediate and all others. Service was great. You can't go wrong with Sweetwater.
by Louis Wilberger from California on

Takamine GC5CE

I have a La Patrie Etude model classical which now are made using the Godin name but still called
the Etude model. It has a solid Cedar top and sells for about $600.00 new without a preamp or cutaway body.
The Takamine sounds better unplugged than the Godin La Patrie which is made in Canada. The La Patrie is a nice
sounding guitar in its own right but again the Takamine does sound better. I bought the Takamine new from Sweetwater
a couple months ago and for what you get it seems like a fair value for the money.
by Sweetwater Customer on
Music background: Singer songwriter.

Very pretty, decent elelectronics

This is rare to find a classical that sounds better plugged in then with a Neumann KM 84 in front of it. I had no idea Takamine started farming from their Japan construction facilities to China. There was quite a bit of information miss information on this ace. It is not a rosewood neck it is not made in Japan and frankly it sounds like a cardboard box with six cheap strings on it. Imagine that, $ for a mediocre/ intermediate Chinese classical guitar with no case nowadays. Yeah I think somethings really wrong with the economy all over the world. My recommendation is to never buy a guitar and I should have played it for us no matter how good the salesman or the apparent deal
by Steven Pfeiffer from ST LOUIS, MO on
Music background: 30 years educated guitarist. Professional union audio engineer
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