The Breedlove Discovery S Concert Edgeburst CE is all you could want in a first guitar--or a new favorite guitar--and more! Crafted with earth-conscious, sonically superior EcoTonewood technology, this instrument--in a distinctive gloss Edgeburst finish that helps you stand out from the crowd--invites a variety of play styles, from bare fingers to bold strumming. This left-handed Concert body guitar boasts a soft cutaway, slim, fast neck and narrow nut width facilitate easy play; a solid European spruce top produces classic, thrilling tone and projection. Great acoustic sound encourages you to play better, sound better and play more, and Fishman Presys I electronics let you rock as loud as you'd like. Discover the Breedlove ECO Collection--where the guitar meets the forest.

Features:

- Left-Handed configuration
- Sustainably-sourced exotic and native tonewoods
- Individually harvested EcoTonewood
- Concert body shape
- Well-balanced, compact, & comfortable to play
- Warm, mellow tone great for fingerstyle and classical
- Slimmer neck profile for easy playability
- Solid Red Cedar Top
- Layered African Mahogany back & sides
- African Mahogany neck with Ovangkol fretboard
- Onboard Fishman Presys I electronics
- Breedlove's pinless Delta bridge

Sustainable & Clear Cut Free
Made from sustainably-sourced exotic and native tonewoods. No clear-cut trees are used in these instruments. Breedlove uses salvaged and individually harvested timber and has deep relationships with… read more responsible suppliers around the globe. As Breedlove moves towards sustainability across all lines, owner Tom Bedell has visited 15 countries to discover exactly where the wood comes from, how it is selected and harvested, and how this affects the wildlife, the community, the forest and the planet.

EcoTonewood Back & Sides
With EcoTonewood, Breedlove makes laminate technology sustainable, introducing a resonant core tonewood layer of clear-cut free, individually harvested African mahogany in place of the typical tone-robbing softwoods used in standard acoustic guitar manufacture. Coupled with Breedlove's deep research into revolutionary body shapes; building to target tonewood weight adds to the optimized, natural sound of each guitar in the ECO Collection. And, Breedlove creates these better sounding laminate guitars while being kind to the earth while maintaining an accessible, entry-level price-point. Breedlove EcoTonewood--it's where music meets the trees.

Solid Wood Tops
Along with its body shape, a guitar's top is the defining element of its sound, driving, through its vibration, the key aspects of volume, tone, sustain and projection. Spruce will, due in part to its famous stiffness-to-weight ratio, ring loud and clear. A solid wood top translates those vibrations with more immediacy and purity of tone, and reacts more directly with the intent of a player. If you are at an intermediate level or above, you will appreciate the instantly recognizable benefits of a solid wood top.

The Concert Body Shape
The Concert is Breedlove's most popular body shape, favored by players because it is well-balanced, compact, comfortable to play, and offers all the qualities of a great sounding guitar. It generates a wonderfully articulate range of tone with an ample low end that is never boomy, but always felt. The Concert works well when played fingerstyle, as vocal accompaniment, or at a full strum.

Mahogany Back & Sides
Long treasured by cabinetmakers and shipwrights for its simple, straight-grained beauty, strength and workability, mahogany--used in tops, backs, sides and necks--is also one of the true classic tonewoods, famous for its clear, strong fundamental; even string-to-string balance; and warm midrange emphasis. Mahogany pairs well with spruce tops as well as with itself in single species guitars--and both combinations define much of American roots music.

Red Cedar Top
Softer than spruce, with a warmer cast to its look and its tone, western red cedar has less headroom for a heavy attack, but comes alive--with sweet harmonics and a wide tonal palette--for a lighter touch. Related to mahogany, it shares a focused sound, much loved by fingerstylists.

BREEDLOVE PINLESS BRIDGE
Breedlove's pinless Delta bridge is a distinctive element, alright, with a sleek, modern contour that adds an extra bit of unexpected beauty to every instrument, from Discovery to Legacy. But it also adds welcome functionality while anchoring great sound. Beginners love the fact that string changes are much easier without having to wrestle a traditional pin bridge. Pros love it for the same reason! No more looking for lost pins during a fast backstage string swap. And its low profile makes for perfect right hand damping.

The Breedlove Neck
Breedlove guitars feature a slimmer neck profile, which enables comfortable play, even with smaller hands. The hand-rubbed, semi-gloss Breedlove neck finish also contributes to ideal playability. The labor-intensive finish process includes precise finish coat applications, fine sanding, and hand buffing and rubbing.

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