Seagull Coastline S12 Cedar Acoustic Guitar, 12-String

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A serious value, this Canadian-made 12-string acoustic guitar from Seagull delivers room-filling sound with a solid cedar top and wild cherry back and sides.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Solid cedar top Mellow, nuanced, responsive tone
Set-neck construction Solid joinery for great sustain and feel
Adirondack spruce bracing Strong and light with robust output
Solid, sustainable cherry back and sides Rich midrange warmth with good projection

Seagull's Coastline series takes the experience of acoustic tone and performance to a whole new level, and with your Seagull Coastline S12 Cedar acoustic guitar, you'll upgrade your game without breaking your wallet. This beauty features a selected solid cedar top, Canadian wild cherry back and sides, a stable Silver Leaf maple neck with double action truss rods, a smooth and inviting rosewood fingerboard, 21 frets with comfortable action, optional QIT electronics, and a redesigned dreadnought body shape that projects a warm and powerful resonance.

Seagull's Coastline Series

Seagull takes the acoustic guitar game very seriously. Each Coastline series guitar features pressure-tested spruce or solid cedar tops and an intriguing dark stain on their wild cherry backs and sides on the "GT" models. The integrated set necks on these axes make for a melodious playground for your fingers to enjoy.

Cedar and Wild Cherry Body

It looks good and it sounds great. The solid cedar top on your Seagull Coastline S12 will yield a warm and dark tone with a nice push on the lower frequencies. Its strong linear grain pattern is pleasing to the eyes, too. On the back and sides of the instrument, wild cherry wood will add a little snap and attack to your notes. Both tonewoods work together to yield an attractive look and sound that'll keep year ears and eyes hooked.

Adirondack Spruce Bracing

Finding the right balance against the tension of the strings is a challenging feat to conquer read more for acoustic guitars -- especially for 12-string instruments. Seagull tackles this challenge with its Adirondack spruce bracing -- acting as a dependable counterbalance to string tension without placing unnecessary stress on the cedar top. As a result, you get a consistently well balanced overall responsiveness and resonance.

Addicting Silver Leaf Maple Neck

When navigating 12 strings, your fingers will love this acoustic guitar's Silver Leaf maple neck. As a tonewood, maple brings in the higher frequencies, adding snap to each note. The smooth rosewood fingerboard spans 21 frets that'll only get more pleasing to the touch note after note.

Smart and Integrated Set Neck System

The integrated set neck system on your Seagull Coastline S12 Cedar acoustic guitar ensures that every strum achieves crystal-clear articulation, lingering sustain, tight action, and smooth playability throughout each performance. This resilient system also holds up well against atmospheric changes than can cause twisting or warping over the years.

Get an overview of the Seagull Coastline S12 Cedar 12 String Acoustic Guitar in this video demo:


Features:

- 12-string acoustic guitar
- Dreadnought body shape
- Selected solid cedar top
- Canadian wild cherry back and sides
- Adirondack spruce bracing
- Attractive Silver Leaf maple neck
- Smooth rosewood fingerboard
- 21 frets with tight and comfortable action
- Dot fingerboard inlays
- Scale length of 24.84"
- Secure rosewood bridge
- Double action truss rods

You'll reach for the Seagull S12 again and again when you're going for that big, full, "piano-like" 12-string guitar sound!
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- Top: Select Pressure Tested Solid Cedar
- Back & Sides: Canadian Wild Cherry
- Neck: Silver Leaf Maple Integrated Set Neck
- Fingerboard & Bridge: Rosewood
- Nut & Saddle: Compensated Tusq by Graphtech
- Truss Rod: Double Function
- Finish: Semi-Gloss Custom Polished Finish
- Nut Width: 1.9 in.
- Body Length: 19.8 in.
- Body Depth: 4.9 in.

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 514-457-7977

Seagull Coastline S12 Cedar Acoustic

The Seagull Coastline S12 Cedar is one of the easiest 12-string guitars to tune on the market. Twelve string guitars must endure a great deal of added stress on the neck. The Seagull neck design offers superior stability, even on the twelve string models tuned to concert pitch. The straight string pull of the tapered Seagull headstock is an especially big advantage when it comes to tuning a twelve string guitar and keeping it in tune.

Select Pressure Tested Solid Tops

Each solid top is pressure tested to ensure its highest level of rigidity and stiffness along with maximum harmonic vibration. This benefits the overall tone, projection and resonance which in turn benefits the player and increases the lifespan of the guitar.

Adirondack Spruce Bracing

The Strength and lightweight qualities of Adirondack Spruce make for ideal bracing material. It provides the strength needed to resist string tension without weighing down the top, allowing it to be more responsive and vibrate freely.

Custom Polished Finish

Reminiscent of the French polish of the 19th century, this finish gives the semi gloss a gorgeous satin sheen and the high gloss a lustrous shine as well as accentuating the natural wood grain of the instrument. More importantly, the Custom Polished finish allows the top to breathe and vibrate freely bringing out the true tone of the wood. This in turn promotes the ever important process, known as "aging", in which the guitar will actually sound better the more it is played over time.

Compound Curve Tops

Slightly arching the top above the sound hole resists downward pressure created by the fingerboard and increases the structural integrity of the top.

Integrated Set Neck System

The Integrated Set Neck system allows for more consistent and stable action while significantly reducing warping and twisting of the neck, largely attributed to changes in climate.

Tapered Headstocks

Provides straight string pull, which makes tuning and staying in tune much easier. Also great for open tunings.

Double-Action Truss Rods

The rod bends in both directions, which provides unprecedented control over the neck.

Coastline Series

The Seagull Coastline series represents another outstanding value in the acoustic guitar world. Featuring select pressure tested solid Cedar or Spruce tops, Wild Cherry back & sides, integrated set necks and custom polished finishes. On the Coastline "GT" models, these finishes include the aesthetic beauty of semi-gloss back & sides combined with a lustrous Gloss Top. All models in the Coastline series, also feature a beautiful dark stain on their back & sides that is both rich & distinctive in appearance.

Features

- Select Solid Cedar Top
- Custom Polished Finish
- Silver Leaf Maple Neck
- Wild Cherry Back and Sides
- Integrated Set Neck
- Optional QIT Electronics
- Limited Lifetime Warranty

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. (10 ratings)
Submitted October 2, 2012 by Cutch T in Staunton, VA

"One Awesome Guitar"

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Ah, this guitar. A heavenly, beautifully built, great sounding instrument, right out the box. You could spend boocoos of money on a "name brand" 12 string, but you'd be paying for the sticker on the headstock. Seagull's 12 string is unsurpassed in quality, value, and most importantly, sound. I absolutely love this guitar...I own approx. 20 stringed instruments or so and this is by far my go to songwriting guitar. It sounds like a piano, with deep sonorous lows and crisp, jangly highs...with a midrange punch perfect for flatpicking. I honestly have no complaints with Seagull's 12 string except it would have been nice it would have included a case. Buy it. You won't be disappointed.

Musical Background:

Professional Musician and Music Teacher

Musical Style:

Bluegrass, acoustic, americana, blues, jazz
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