Nashville First Strum
A comfortable cutaway acoustic for first chords and every song after, as an acoustic or an electro-acoustic.
The First Strum is the acoustic we would hand anyone picking up a guitar for the first time, and anyone who wants an easy, dependable everyday player. Its 41-inch Grand Auditorium body sits comfortably under the arm, the cutaway opens up the upper frets, and the spruce top gives a bright, clear voice. A mahogany neck set with a dovetail joint, a bone nut and saddle and a 1.72-inch (43.7 mm) nut width keep it stable and easy to play, and every guitar is inspected and set up before it ships. Choose Natural Spruce with red-brown back and sides, Black, or all-mahogany, with a mahogany top, back, sides and headstock veneer for a warmer, rounder voice, as an acoustic or as an electro-acoustic with a built-in preamp and tuner. It comes in a heavy-padded 0.8-inch (20 mm) gig bag with neck support, with a Nashville cleaning cloth, an Allen key and picks.
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- Size
- 41 inch Grand Auditorium cutaway
- Scale length
- Standard acoustic scale length
- Nut width
- 1.72" (43.7 mm)
- Top
- Spruce (Natural Spruce, Black) or mahogany (Mahogany)
Where to buy
Nashville sells exclusively through authorized distributors and partner dealers.
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Specifications
Construction
- Size
- 41 inch Grand Auditorium cutaway
- Scale length
- Standard acoustic scale length
- Nut width
- 1.72" (43.7 mm)
- Top
- Spruce (Natural Spruce, Black) or mahogany (Mahogany)
- Back and sides
- Basswood (Natural Spruce, Black) or mahogany (Mahogany)
- Neck
- Mahogany with dovetail joint
- Fingerboard
- Engineered wood with ivory-colored binding
- Bridge
- Rosewood
- Nut and saddle
- Bone
- Frets
- 20
Finishes
- Natural Spruce
- Spruce top with red-brown back and sides
- Black
- Black top, back and sides
- Mahogany
- Mahogany top, back and sides, mahogany neck and headstock veneer
- Finish
- Satin
Hardware
- Rosette
- Multi-layer decorative sound-hole ring
- Pickguard
- Brown water-drop style
- Tuning pegs
- Fully enclosed
Electronics (electro-acoustic)
- Preamp
- KLT-18B with built-in tuner
- Controls
- Tuner, phase, volume, bass, middle, treble, presence
- Power
- 9V battery
Setup
- Setup
- Inspected and set up before shipping
In the box
- Gig bag
- Heavy-padded 0.8" (20 mm) gig bag with neck support
- Accessories
- Nashville cleaning cloth, Allen key, picks
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