Unfettered access to all frets with a soft cutaway design
The Breedlove soft cutaway design gives you smooth and comfortable access to all 18 frets on this Artista Concertina model. With its soft cutaway and fast neck, this model puts you directly in touch with your muse. Its sheer visual charisma makes it hard to put down.
Optimized for sound and built for performance
Breedlove Natural Sound electronics will help you sound better and play more by placing controls right where you need them—in the soundhole for quick, on-the-strum access. Volume and tone are easily addressed with soundhole-mounted controls.
The ideal guitar for the eco-friendly player
Breedlove has made a name for itself in developing beautifully crafted instruments with a distinctive, unique sound. With the release of the Breedlove Organic Collection, Breedlove steps up their game by offering sustainably harvested all-solid acoustic-electrics at an affordable price. The Breedlove Artista Concertina acoustic-electric is a winning combination for the player seeking a unique sound from responsibly harvested woods.
More on the Breedlove Organic Collection
Designed in Bend, Oregon, with no synthetic materials and half the glue, the Breedlove Organic Collection makes four great-sounding lightweight, responsive series of instruments accessible at revolutionary prices. Each wood combination comes in Breedlove’s three distinctive, popular shapes—Concerto, Concert and 12-fret Concertina. The Signature Series and Wildwood Series also come in the new travel-size Companion shape. As Breedlove owner Tom Bedell says, “Saving the world’s forests never sounded so good.”
Features
Sustainably sourced all-solid myrtlewood construction and torrefied European spruce top respect the Earth while providing great tone
Classic Breedlove slim neck profile and soft cutaway offers hours of playability and unlimited upper fret access
Easy soundhole operation and tailblock battery replacement for Breedlove Natural Sound electronics
Set up with light gauge strings for superior sound and complete with a thin gloss Natural Shadow Burst finish
Organic Collection Artista Concertina Cutaway CE Acoustic-Electric Guitar Specifications:
Body
- Body type: Concertina
- Cutaway: Yes
- Top wood: Solid torrefied European spruce
- Back and sides: Solid myrtlewood
- Bracing pattern: X brace
- Body binding: Walnut
- Top finish: Gloss Natural Shadow Burst
- Body finish: Gloss Natural Shadow Banded Burst
Neck
- Neck shape: Soft C
- Nut width: 1 11/16″
- Fingerboard: African ebony
- Neck wood: Eastern hard rock maple
- Inlay: Offset brass dots
- Scale length: 25″
- Number of frets: 18
- Fret type: Gold
- Neck finish: Natural Shadow Banded Burst satin
Other
- Headstock overlay: African ebony
- Tuning machines: Premium Breedlove gold closed gear with black buttons
- Bridge: African ebony
- Saddle and nut: Bone
- Number of strings: 6
- Special features: All-solid wood acoustic guitar at an approachable price point
- Case: Case sold separately
- Country of origin: China
Electronics
- Pickup/preamp: Yes, Breedlove Natural Sound
