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Gretsch Nick 13 Signature Concert
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Features
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Fretboard: Rosewood
Warm, dark, balanced sound, good resonance. -
Top: Spruce
Brighter sound and better projection. -
Back / Sides: Mahogany
Warm, full-bodied tones with good sustain -
Saddle width search: Middle (43 - 46 mm)
Medium to wide nut width for comfortable gripping and plucking. -
Neck: Mahogany
Warmer sound, less brightness/treble, more sustain.
- Strings: 6 string
- Country of origin: Indonesia
- Strings thickness ex factory: .012 - .053
- Nick 13 logo on the back of the headstock
- Body shape: Concert
- Construction / Acoustic: Solid (Top)
- Scale Length: 25,25" (642 mm)
- Cutaway: no
- Top: Spruce
- Back / Sides: Mahogany
- Rosette: Black/Aged White
- Binding: Cream
- Bridge: Rosewood
- Saddle/Cross piece inlay: Bone
- Body finish: High Gloss
- Neck: Mahogany
- Neck Mount: Dovetail
- Neck finish: High Gloss
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Fretboard radius: 16" (406.4 mm)
- Fretboard Inlays: White Pearl Spade
- Nut width: 43,0 mm
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Headstock: 1950's Gretsch 3x3
- Tuning Machines: Nickel open gear with white butterbean buttons
- Pickguard: Oxblood
- Bridge-Pins: White Plastic
- Color/ Finish: Black
- Finish: Polyester
- Finish: High Gloss
Today, the US guitar maker Gretsch Guitars is particularly known for its electric guitars, but the company started out with other instruments. At the beginning , Gretsch was particularly successful with bluegrass and folk instruments such as banjos and resonator guitars.
Following the motto “Back to the Roots” - Gretsch has brought the Roots Collection onto the market, which celebrates and revives precisely these good old instruments. The range includes ukuleles, parlor- size acoustic guitars and several resonator guitars . All instruments are in the style of bygone years and convey a certain Vintage feeling when you look at them, which is further enhanced by the thin, matt finish . When it comes to resonator guitars, the discerning bluegrass guitarist can look forward to round and square neck versions of each model; a Gretsch Ampli-Sonic resonator cone is responsible for the best possible sound . We didn't skimp on the pickups either: Fishman pickups are installed in selected instruments.
Lovers of instruments in Vintage design and those who want to become one will surely find what they are looking for in the Roots Collection. All models are of course very well made, as is typical for Gretsch, and will give the player a lot of joy.
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.
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