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Takamine GN51CE NEX Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Natural

Acoustic-electric Guitar with Spruce Top, Black Walnut Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, and Laurel Fingerboard - Natural
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A Small-jumbo with Electronics

The Takamine GN51CE NEX acoustic-electric guitar will seduce you with its rich tone, stunning good looks, and amazing playability. Sporting a solid spruce top and black walnut back and sides, the GN51CE's cutaway NEX "small jumbo" body is incredibly comfortable — even for smaller players. The GN51CE NEX's solid spruce top responds beautifully to a light, fingerstyle touch, yet it will sing with authority when strummed boldly. Takamine's TP-4TD preamp is onboard, waiting to serve up natural-sounding amplification and flexible tone shaping. If you're in the market for a versatile, comfortable, great-sounding acoustic-electric, check out Takamine's GN51CE NEX.

Great sound is in the details

The Takamine GN51CE NEX acoustic-electric guitar benefits from quality tonewoods and Takamine's painstaking attention to detail. With its scalloped X-braced solid spruce top and black walnut back and sides, the GN51CE NEX looks great and is tonally versatile enough to handle whatever playing style your musical mood dictates. And if you're playing out, the Takamine GN51CE NEX's stage-friendly gloss finish will certainly command your audience's attention.

Takamine's TP-4TD preamp system

The GN51CE NEX sports Takamine's TP-4TD preamp, giving you rich, clear-sounding amplified output — instantly. The TP-4TD features a gain knob; a tuner; an active shelving EQ with bass, middle, and treble sliders; and a low battery indicator. The preamp is switched on by plugging a standard instrument cable into the endpin/strap-pin jack. Unplugging the cable turns the preamp off. The TP-4TD is powered by a single 9-volt battery.

Takamine: a legacy of amazing quality, sound, and playability

The Takamine GN51CE NEX acoustic-electric guitar benefits from a half-century of Takamine guitar-crafting knowhow. Launched in 1962 at the foot of Japan's Takamine mountains, Takamine has been designing and building acoustic-electric guitars that are seen in the hands of some of music's biggest stars. With quality and value as guiding principles, Takamine's instruments employ the finest tonewoods and construction techniques — something you'll discover for yourself as soon as you pick up your GN51CE NEX for the first time.

Takamine GN51CE NEX Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

  • NEX-style guitar with a distinctive voice
  • Highly resonant solid spruce top with scalloped X-bracing provides incredible volume and projection
  • Black Walnut back and sides produces a rich, wide-ranging sound with great definition
  • Mahogany neck with laurel fingerboard, 20 frets, dot inlays
  • Electronics: under-saddle pickup, TP-4TD preamp with 3-band EQ and built-in tuner
  • Gold machine heads

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: NEX
  • Body Style: Single Cutaway
  • Back & Sides Wood: Black Walnut
  • Top Wood: Solid Spruce
  • Finish: Gloss
  • Color: Natural
  • Body Bracing: Quartersawn X
  • Neck Wood: Mahogany
  • Radius: 12"
  • Fingerboard Material: Laurel
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Mother-of-pearl Dot
  • Number of Frets: 20
  • Scale Length: 25.354"
  • Nut Width: 1.6875"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Synthetic Bone
  • Bridge Material: Laurel
  • Tuning Machines: Gold Die-cast
  • Electronics: TP-4TD Preamp
  • Strings: D'Addario, .012-.053
  • Case Included: Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: TAKGN51CENAT

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Why I buy from Chris at Sweetwater. John McCall

Just got this last week another interments to stand in the corner. I forgot to get stands for them so yesterday got 3 ordered. Chris must be one heck of a great employee to have. My new Acoustic /Electric Guitar arrived tuned and in great shape. The sound is right on and for a back up guitar, it is all most moving to the front of the line! The case got here also and I did notice that the fight over who can play it first was only settled by a single bag of candy that fell out of the box and into the hands of one keyboardist and into the hands of another. Michael got to it first and will let us move it for him maybe. If you get one, get it from Sweetwater and it looks and plays great. John McCall
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Music background: 65 yrs. of playing singing and enjoying music. With friends on stage.

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Sounds awesome I"m happy with my purchase
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Awesome Guitar

Simply put, this guitar truly sounds, looks, and feels amazing regardless of the price point. The only maintenance I did after receiving this was tighten the truss rod to straighten the neck just a bit and get the action to my preferred action (5/64'' at the 12th fret on the low E). At arrival it was just a hair shy of 7/64" which is right about most manufactures' specs. I appreciate the attention to detail in the 55 point inspection by Sweetwater as it greatly reduces the potential amount of work required to get your guitar to your liking. There was absolutely no fret buzz or intonation issues across the fretboard before, or after, adjustments.

The rosewood back and sides are laminate but certainly retain the tonal and visual characteristics for which rosewood is so renowned. The solid spruce top/rosewood combination in tandem with the NEX body shape (essentially a scaled down jumbo shape) is louder than expected played unplugged but the tone is warm, yet very crisp. The under-saddle pickup sounds clear and the preamp is extremely useful.

The abalone rosette is beautiful and the binding is simple, framing the body and fretboard very nicely.

From headstock to endpin this is an amazing guitar!
by Kyle Trimble from New Albany, OH on

Sweet Guitar!

Outstanding guitar! Really well balanced sound that just sings. Excellent construction and simple but beautiful appointments. What's especially good IMO is that the headstock is designed in such a way where the strings aren't crimped after they pass the nut and meet the tuning posts. That sets the strings up more in line with the nut and I have found that guitars that are set up that way stay in tune better. I found out from the manufacturer that the tops are (with very rare exceptions depending on supplies) made from solid Sitka Spruce, book-matched, and the bracing is X scalloped. I shopped around and looked at many cutaway acoustic-electrics in this price range and none could come close to this guitar as far as features and bottom line bang-for-the-buck. The only other one that I would consider as good was a newly released Yamaha but it's more expensive so this Takamine is my new baby! It's fantastic!!
by Moe from Mountain View, CA on

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I have been playing acoustics for over 40 years my first guitar was an Apollo (made by Fender), it was a solid body electric. My first acoustic was an Alvarez Regent very nice guitar, through the years I have, and have played many different makes and brands, but I have to say this Tak is up there with the high end brands. I was treated professionally and with the utmost respect, I received this guitar by mail order and received it when they said it would delivered, this guitar was set up and ready to play straight out of the box, The intonation and action was spot on and amazingly it was in tune, the rich highs and lows are what I was looking for, the box wasn't even damaged I love this guitar already thank SWEET WATER for the help you gave me and the most professional service I have ever received. I am a new life long member as of today.
by Shelton Irvin from Illinois on
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