The ultimate in USA-made acoustic guitar value! The DM9 has become Tacoma's top-selling instrument because of its superb tone and Tacoma's attention to detail. This great 12-string acoustic/electric version features a solid Sitka spruce top, solid mahogany back & sides, a rosewood fingerboard, and Tacoma's cool clear pickguard. Other features include a 4-color wood rosette, tortoise binding on the top of the body and a light satin finish. This low-priced instrument is a prime example of everything that made Tacoma the hottest acoustic guitar line in over 25 years. Includes a Deluxe Tacoma Hardshell Case.
Tacoma E2 Preamp
Tacoma Tone Bar System made exclusively for Tacoma Guitars by EMG. Coupling a Piezo electric film pickup with a fixed curve active EQ, the Tone Bar is simple yet has an amazing natural sound. It faithfully amplifies every subtle nuance and dynamic without compression or clipping.
The Tacoma Guitars "VS" bracing is a radical advance over traditional acoustic guitar bracing. We haven't "adjusted" a design from the 1930's, we've applied sixty years of learning. Tacoma Guitars braces are triangular in shape because they have equal strength to a rounded brace with less mass. Lower mass allows the top to vibrate more freely, and increases the guitar's response.
Tacoma's "Tone Shaped" bridge is wide and flat on the bass side, and narrow and peaked on the treble side. A Luthier's rule of thumb is that low, wide braces are best for bass frequencies, and tall, thin braces are best for treble frequencies. They've applied this thinking to their bridge and it works.
The solid Maple bridge plate is asymmetrical, and placed diagonally to enhance the dispersion patterns of our bridge design. Tacoma's matched bridge and bridge plate configuration balances the bass and treble remarkably, and produces sustain unmatched by any other system.
There are no sharp corners on the front edge of the bridge to concentrate stress on the top. Less stress - Longer life.
Technical Info
Specifications
Satin finish
Solid Sitka Spruce top
Solid Mahogany back & sides
Rosewood fingerboard and "Tone Shaped" bridge
Tortoise top body & neck binding
1.875 in. nut width
Four color herringbone soundhole ring
D'Addario EXP strings
