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Key Features
- Effortless lap slide playability thanks to square neck construction
- Amplified resonator tones resulting from Fishman Nashville pickup
- Warm and resonant sound produced by mahogany body
- Authentic Delta-Blues sound delivered from aluminium resonator
Gretsch G9230 Bobtail Deluxe Resonator Guitar, Square Neck, Sunburst - Ex Demo Overview
Ex-Demo
Serial number: CAXR211311
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The Gretsch G9230 Bobtail Deluxe Resonator marks a return to the original resonator designs, providing you with a loud acoustic instrument perfect for bluegrass lap-style slide. This model features a square backed neck and is intended to be used for lap-style slide playing. Equipped with a Fishman Nashville pickup, you can plug in and use those same tones in a live setting. This guitar has a completely steel body for pure metallic blues tones and features an Ampli-Sonic cone diaphragm that allows your tone to reach the very far end of the room.
This reissue of a 1930s has been designed with a long-body construction, paired with a comfortable flat square neck profile, in order to capture the voice of the past generation of blues and ragtime musicians. If you're looking for a professional resonator performance which can also be used in live situations through an amplifier, the Bobtail won't disappoint.
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Full Description
View Full DescriptionDesigned for perfection
The G9230 Bobtail has been crafted with a flat square profile in order to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand. Topped with a semi-gloss finish, this resonator allows for smooth transitions along the neck. Its perfection doesn't stop at the neck though, it stretches down to the body as well. Designed with F-holes and traditional features, the G9230 wouldn't look out-of-place from many decades ago in the Mississippi delta, providing you with authentic and powerful tones.
Innovation at its core
This model comes designed with the Gretsch Ampli-Sonic cone diaphragm, which has been hand-spun in Eastern Europe from 99 percent pure aluminium. Thanks to this, you are provided with the resonator's distinct metallic overtones and delta-blues sound. Mounted to a mahogany body, this design is sure to impress your audience with a sweet quality of tone at cutting volumes. When combined with the mahogany neck and katalox fingerboard, you are provided with an additional sustain and dark resonance. If you're familiar with the delta-blues sound, this guitar will allow you to recreate it in a powerful and authentic way.
Ready for stage and studio
Equipped with Fishman's Nashville series pickup, this model provides you with an authentic delta-blues tones in an amplified environment. It offers clear and accurate tone which ensures the G9230 Bobtail is ready to handle modern signal chains, such as direct recording or stage performances. Although the Bobtail is already a loud acoustic instrument, the pickup system will let you take that tone onto the stage when you need the added volume to compete in a loud environment.
Gretsch Roots collection
The G9230 Bobtail comes from the Gretsch Roots Collection, aiming to resurrect classic designs from past generations and bring their unique tones to the modern stage. This model is perfect for producing the loud and metallic tones of delta blues, whilst its mahogany body construction and resonator cones ensures you'll have a completely unique, sweet, and metallic tone for delta blues and bluegrass genres. Featuring a Fishman pickup, this guitar will also allow you to take those same delta tones to the stage. If you need a unique tonal addition to your guitar collection, or simply want to explore the delta-blues sound both at home and on the stage, here is the ideal instrument to let you do so.
Specifications
- Product Code: 2716023503
Body and Bridge
- Material: Laminated Mahogany
- Shape: Resonator
- Bracing: Internal Sound-Well
- Sound Hole: F-Shaped
- Finish: 2-Colour Sunburst
- Bridge: Spider- Ebony-Topped Maple
Neck and Fingerboard
- Neck Material: Mahogany
- Neck Shape: Square
- Neck Finish: Semi-Gloss Honey Mahogany Stain
- Scale Length: 25"
- Fingerboard Material: Katalox
- Fingerboard Radius: 15.75"
- Frets: 19 Medium Jumbo
- Inlays: Aged Pearloid - .25"
- Nut: Bone
- Nut Width: 44.45mm
Hardware and Electronics
- Pickup: Fishman Nashville Series Resophonic
- Resonator: Gretsch Ampli-Sonic Spider Resonator Cone
- Cone Cover: Nickel-Plated Poinsettia
- Bridge Cover: Nickel-Plated
- Hardware: Nickel-Plated
- Tuning Machines: Gretsch Sta-Tite Die-Cast
- Strings: D'Addario EJ16 Phosphor Bronze, Light (.012 - .053 Gauges)
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