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Gretsch G2655T Streamliner CB JR DC FRGLW
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Features
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Neck Profile: Soft "C"
Slim profile, comfortable feel. -
Scale: 24" (610 - 634 mm)
Shorter scale length for easier bends. -
Fretboard: Indian Laurel
Soft, warm sound with clear articulation. -
Neck construction: Set in neck
Significantly longer sustain than screw-on necks -
Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
Full, warm sound with strong mids and highs and pronounced sustain. -
Body Material: Maple laminated
Brighter and clearer tones than mahogany. -
Fretboard radius: 12"
Better playability, especially when bending.
The Streamliner™ collection revives the best elements of history and combines them with exciting new features to deliver exceptional performance, sound and style at an incredible value. The Gretsch G2655T Streamliner CB JR DC FRGLW is an impressive electric guitar with a unique and powerful sound that will take your playing to a whole new level. The G2655T Streamliner Center Block Jr. with V-Stoptail steps into the modern era, with powerful sound and style in a compact body. The sleek G2655T is designed for guitarists who want more than the everyday from an instrument - more power, more style and, most importantly, more volume - while retaining everything you'd expect from a Gretsch . With a double cut body in Forge Glow high gloss finish and exciting features, this guitar is sure to quickly become your new favorite.
Design and comfort
The G2655T Center Block Jr. features a smaller arched maple body with an all-new center block design inside the body. This new center block is engineered to balance lightweight playing comfort with a full, rich sound and increased resonance, resulting in improved attack and sustain and excellent feedback rejection - all in a compact package that won't get in your way.
The guitar has a 6-string configuration and a set-in Nato neck with 22 medium jumbo frets and a soft "C" profile for a high level of playing comfort. The scale length is 24.75" (629 mm) and the fretboard is made of laurel with attractive Pearloid Neo-Classic™ thumbnail inlays.
sound and features
Made in Indonesia, the G2655T Streamliner offers a powerful, full tone produced by two humbucking pickups. The G2655T is equipped with the new Broad'Tron BT-3S pickups. With a combination of Alnico-5 and Alnico-2 magnets, the new BT-3S pickup offer stronger mids, tight but full bass and smooth, clear highs that maintain the smooth and musical sound that Gretsch is known for.
The 3-way toggle pickup selector switch gives you control over your sound and lets you choose between different sounds / tones . The passive pickups provide a natural, dynamic sound that supports your performance. In addition, the guitar's typical Gretsch control layout with two volume controls and a master volume and tone controls lets you adjust your sound exactly how you need it. The Gretsch Radio Knobs give the guitar a unique look and the coil splitting opens up further sound options: The additional push/pull potentiometer on the master volume controls enables coil splitting for interesting single coil sounds and adds another level of sound variety to the already strong sound arsenal.
Service package from session
At session, we place great value on the satisfaction of our customers. That's why our service package is unique online and offline. Whether you have questions about the guitar, need support in choosing your equipment or need help adjusting your sounds - we are always there for you. Visit us in our stores in Walldorf and Frankfurt or contact us online. With session , you take the next step on your musical journey.
- Strings: 6 string
- Country of origin: Indonesia
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Special Features: Gretsch Radio Knobs, Medium Jumbo-Frets, Coil Splitting
- Technology: Semi-Hollow Body
- Body shape: Double Cut
- Body Material: Maple laminated
- Top: Maple laminated
- Binding: Antique White
- Body finish: High Gloss
- Neck: Nato
- Neck Profile: Soft "C"
- Neck finish: High Gloss
- Fretboard: Indian Laurel
- Fretboard radius: 12"
- Fretboard Inlays: Pearloid Neo-Classic™ Thumbnail
- Nut width: 1.685" (42.8 mm)
- Nut material: Bone
- Frets: 22
- Fret size: Medium Jumbo
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Neck construction: Set in neck
- Scale Length: 24,75" (629 mm)
- Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
- Neck Pickup: Gretsch Broad'Tron™ BT-3S
- Bridge Pickup: Gretsch Broad'Tron™ BT-3S
- Pickup Cover: Nickel
- Pickup Selector Switch: 3 way toggle
- Pickup type: passive
- Controls: 2x volume, 1x master volume, 1x tone
- Hardware: Nickel
- Bridge / Tremolo: Gretsch Adjusto-Matic + Bigsby B50
- Color/ Finish: Forge Glow
- Finish: Urethane
- Includes: Allen wrench
Since its founding in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, Gretsch has expertly delivered musical instruments of the highest quality that are both influenced and appreciated by some of the music industry's most respected artists. Including Chet Atkins, Eddie Cochran, Billy Duffy, Bono, Duane Eddy, George Harrison, Brian Setzer, Stephen Stills and Malcolm Young.
27-year-old Friedrich Gretsch, a German immigrant, initially began his company's career by manufacturing banjos, drums and tambourines. However, just 12 years later, Friedrich died and left the young company to his son Fred, who was only 15 years old at the time. This, by no means a typical teenager, built the company into one of the leading importers and manufacturers of musical instruments in America. Knowing that the key to growth lay in listening to what the public wanted - and they wanted guitars - Gretsch began manufacturing the coveted six-string.
First from 1926 in the form of acoustic archtops for jazz music, which was rapidly gaining popularity at the time, and a handful of flattops for the sounds of country and western, which were always popular in the USA. In 1935, Gretsch launched the legendary Broadkaster drum series, which was successful until the 1950s. Gretsch's contribution to the emergence of electrical amplification was the first Electromatic® in 1939, a hollow-body construction / acoustic that has remained in the repertoire to this day in a contemporary design.
In 1942, after 50 years of successful business, Fred Gretsch Senior left the company to his son Fred Gretsch Junior. Since production was interrupted during the turmoil of World War II, he left the business to his brother Bill in order to serve in the Navy himself. Unfortunately, like his grandfather, Bill died very young in 1948, so the naval officer Fred, who was no longer active, took over the helm of the family business again.
Since 1953, the company has also cultivated its expertise in solid-body guitars, which addressed increasingly loud concerts with their greatly reduced sensitivity to feedback. The semi-acoustic department has now expanded to include guitars with center block construction / acoustic , which combine the tonal properties of a hollow body guitar with the practical aspects of a solid body.
Since George Harrison's appearance with the Beatles and his Country Gentleman on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Gretsch has finally become a permanent star in the firmament of iconic guitars, which is clearly reflected in 1965 in the form of the highest production volume in the company's history.
In 1967, at the height of success, so to speak, Fred Gretsch Jr. decided to take a well-deserved retirement and sold the company to the Baldwin Piano Company, which took over the business. Unfortunately with limited success. Fortunately, Dinah Gretsch joined the company in 1979 and was able to pave the way for a buyback, which her husband Fred W. Gretsch, the founder's grandchild, was able to complete 17 years after the sale. Together, the couple brought the company back to its former glory, where it still shines today.
