Fender FM-52E Concert Tone Acoustic-Electric Mandolin

As a performing mandolin player, you're familiar with the dilemma: It's not an easy instrument to mic for onstage use. Enter the Fender FM-52E, an "A"-style mandolin with a comfortable feel, convenient onboard electronics with volume and tone controls, and a price low enough for even casual players. An ideal choice for folk, Celtic, country and even rock, pop and jazz, the FM-52E is fantastic to have when you and your band need the beautifully chiming--and amplified--sound of a mandolin.

Spruce top

Spruce is the standard modern tonewood for fashioning the tops of acoustic guitars and other acoustic instruments--few woods can beat its strength, brightness and dynamic range, and it responds well to any acoustic playing style, from hard strumming to fast flatpicking to delicate fingerpicking.

"A"-style design

This is the classic teardrop-shaped mandolin body style with a simpler headstock design, a long-established classic for Irish, folk and even classical music.

Chrome Hardware

In addition to its other fine appointments, this instrument features the classic look of chrome hardware.

Features:

- "A"-style electric mandolin
- Special design single-coil pickup with volume and tone controls
- Spruce top with tone-bar bracing, dual "F" holes and Sunburst finish
- Nato neck with 21-fret fingerboard
- Height-adjustable compensated ebony bridge
- Chrome hardware, two-ply tortoiseshell pickguard