DR20
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Gloss finish |
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Solid Sitka Spruce top |
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Solid Rosewood back & sides |
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Four color herringbone wood top
purfling |
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Rosewood fingerboard and
"Tone Shaped" bridge |
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Rosewood peghead with inlaid
Ivoroid logo |
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Ivoroid body and neck binding |
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Slim neck with low shoulders for
comfortable play |
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Immaculate construction and
attention to detail |
| DR20E2 |
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Tacoma Tone Bar |
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Fixed active EQ with piezo film
pickup |
| DR20E4 |
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Fishman Prefix Plus |
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Active EQ with volume, notch,
treble, bass, brilliance, contour and phase controls with a
piezo electric film pickup. |
The Tacoma Guitars "VS" bracing is a radical advance over traditional acoustic guitar bracing.
We haven't "adjusted" a design from the 1930's, we've applied
sixty years of learning.
Tacoma Guitars braces are triangular in shape because they have equal strength to a rounded
brace with less mass.
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Lower
mass allows the top to vibrate more freely, and increases the guitars
response.
Our "Tone Shaped" bridge is wide
and flat on the bass side, and narrow and peaked on the treble side. A
Luthier's rule of thumb is that low, wide braces are best for bass
frequencies, and tall, thin braces are best for treble frequencies. We've
applied this thinking to our bridge and it works.
Our solid Maple bridge plate is
asymmetrical, and placed diagonally to enhance the dispersion patterns of
our bridge design. Our matched bridge and bridge plate configuration
balances the bass and treble remarkably, and produces sustain unmatched by
any other system.
There are no sharp corners on the front
edge of the bridge to concentrate stress on the top. Less stress - Longer
life
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