Fender FM-52E Concert Tone Acoustic-Electric Mandolin
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Pluck on the Fender FM-52E Concert Tone acoustic-electric mandolin and get excellent tone from its spruce top, amplified through a single-coil pickup.
Overview
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.
- 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
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
Specs
- Body Back: Laminated Mahogany
- Body Sides: Laminated Mahogany
- Body Top: Laminated Spruce
- Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- Body Shape: Mandolin
- Body Binding: 4-Ply
- Neck Material: Mahogany
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Neck Shape: Rounded "V"
- Scale Length: 13.7" (348 mm)
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
- Number of Frets: 21
- Nut Material: Synthetic Bone
- Nut Width: 1.12" (28.4 mm)
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Dot
- Bridge: Compensated Height Adjustable Ebony
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Tuning Machines: 4-in-Line with White Plastic Buttons
- Pickguard: 1-Ply Black
- Strings: Fender Phosphor Bronze Mandolin Strings, (.011-.040 Gauges)
- Body Sides: Laminated Mahogany
- Body Top: Laminated Spruce
- Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- Body Shape: Mandolin
- Body Binding: 4-Ply
- Neck Material: Mahogany
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Neck Shape: Rounded "V"
- Scale Length: 13.7" (348 mm)
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
- Number of Frets: 21
- Nut Material: Synthetic Bone
- Nut Width: 1.12" (28.4 mm)
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Dot
- Bridge: Compensated Height Adjustable Ebony
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Tuning Machines: 4-in-Line with White Plastic Buttons
- Pickguard: 1-Ply Black
- Strings: Fender Phosphor Bronze Mandolin Strings, (.011-.040 Gauges)
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