WNAMM 2011 Peavey Composite Acoustics Guitar Line

They're durable, but they also look really slick and sound great.

News: Peavey: Peavey Unveils Composite Acoustics Guitar Line ...

 

Acquired by Peavey in 2010, Composite Acoustics revolutionized the acoustic guitar market with the introduction of instruments totally built from composite materials featuring stunningly gorgeous weave soundboards. Play any of the guitars in Composite Acoustics line and youll be impressed not only with their volume, but also the incredible tonal clarity and chiming sustain. Carbon fiber allows Composite Acoustics to create a guitar that is more consistent than any other acoustic guitar on the planetno matter the climate conditions. The nature of carbon fiber produces an instrument that stays in tune longer and never needs adjustment. By varying the carbon fiber material density in different areas of the body, Composite Acoustics instruments are able to achieve an amazing, finely tuned tone that is consistent from instrument to instrument. Carbon fiber construction and heelless neck joints also allow for instrument shapes not possible with wood. Incredibly strong, these guitars are as much fun to play in a studio or on stage as they are on a mountaintop or by the pool.

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Composite Acoustic Guitar

D'Addario EJ45C Pro-Arte Composite Classical Guitar Strings, Normal Tension
Musical Instruments (D'Addario &Co. Inc)
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Normal tension offers popular balance of volume and comfortable resistance
String Gauges: Trebles .0280, .0322, .036 Basses .028, .35, .044
Composite 3rd/G for increased projection, clear nylon 1st and 2nd strings. All laser sorted for consistent, precise intonation

COMPOSITE ACOUSTICS LEGACY GUITARS.: An article from: Music Trades
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Accoustic Guitar Laser-Cut Inlay Pen Kit Blank
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Assembly requires cyanoacrylate (CA) glue
Laser-Cut Inlay Pen Kit Blank
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D'Addario EJ45 Pro-Arte Nylon Classical Guitar Strings, Normal Tension
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Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance
Set of Six strings Musical Notes E,B,G,D,A,E -
Precision wound basses for warm, projecting tone and the utmost consistency

Hal Leonard Country Guitar Method (Hal Leonard Guitar Method (Songbooks))
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Schoenhut adds guitars to its toy/student piano product line

It’s the Schoenhut Piano Company , but the venerable ("since 1872") toy piano manufacturer used its grand Toy Fair 2012 display space to promote a new series of acoustic guitars--along with its traditional keyboard-based toy and children's music instrument product.

"Every kid gets a guitar at some point in his life," says Schoenhut's Leonard Trinca, who co-owns the company with his wife Renee.

"Generally, it looks like a guitar--but it's not really a guitar," he continues. "The finish is shoddy, the frets aren't in the right place, etc. We wanted to get into guitars--but make a real student guitar."

So Trinca went to the annual NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) music product trade show in Anaheim, Calif., and studied the guitars.

"A guy showed me a $5,000 guitar and explained that the back was composite shaped with a dual curve, and had a glued-on soundboard made of wood," says Trinca. "It was a great-sounding guitar, and really beautiful. So I went home and put my thinking cap on: I made a mold, glued on a basic soundboard, added a hardwood neck with a molded fretboard and proper spacing between frets. Everything was great, and several guitar teachers said it was a heck of a neat little guitar."

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Bluedog Guitars handles boutique axes
the new store—located in a live-work space at 16–728 West 14th Street in North Vancouver—is devoted primarily to handmade acoustic guitars, ranging from the art-deco creations of local legend Michael Dunn to Composite Acoustics' space-age,

RainSong Shorty SG
RainSong Shorty SG
I like my guitars made of wood. (Sitka spruce tops in particular, with mahogany backs and sides.) The Shorty, on the other hand, is made entirely of graphite and composite materials—there's not a splinter of wood to be found anywhere.

Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone
always seems to mosey out of some vague composite of America's past and then to smoothly vanish back into it, stopping to bless the present with his jaunty compendium of American ragtime, blues, and Tin Pan Alley songs.

Recap: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
At least the man known in some quarters as Mellow Yellow took the stage to perform "Catch the Wind" acoustically and full-band versions of "Sunshine Superman" and "Season of the Witch." His creepy old-man dancing barely diminished how great this all

Energy Power Bar Elite Review
Energy Power Bar Elite Review
The subwoofer's 10-inch fiber-composite driver fires from the left side of its tall, rectangular cabinet and is covered by a perforated metal grill. The unit's amplifier sits on the back, featuring only a volume control and an AC power cord jack.