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Key Features
The Alvarez MDA66SHB Acoustic Guitar is crafted from solid African mahogany, and delivers superb clarity and focus with perfect balance and articulation. Featuring a forward shifted X bracing design, the MDA66SHB delivers an enhanced vibrational energy with a strong, fluid tone and response. This stunning guitar is delicately finished off with an abalone purfling, which adds quality and elegance to the MDA66SHBs overall appearance. The Alvarez Masterworks series strive to deliver top quality guitars made from all-solid, seasoned tone wood at affordable prices.
Product Ref: 79697
Nothing can really match a guitar made from all-solid wood. The deflection of the notes is quicker, the quality of the note is better and the sound of your guitar will improve as it ages. The use of solid African mahogany with this model offers a clear and direct focus, along with a stunning dark grain. Mahogany is a very dense tonewood and a popular choice for guitars, due to it delivering a full,rich sound with added punch. The sound is warm, open and clear, and both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other.
With its classic dreadnought body shape, the MDA66SHB offers deep lows and crisp highs, with a tone that's more evenly balanced across the entire spectrum. The dreadnought is the perfect choice for fans of bluegrass and folk music due to its traditional role in defining those sounds, and its crisp articulation. This classic body provides you with a versatile shape and tone that can accommodate any style of playing including picking, strumming and an aggressive attack.
Like many guitars from Alvarez, the MDA66SHB Acoustic Guitar is also equipped with a forward shifted X brace design. This particular type of bracing structure involves both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars been scalloped. This inventive bracing allows for a thinner graduated top, allowing the soundboard to move more freely, providing warmth, clarity, and balance with dynamic midrange. In addition, by moving the system forward it provides a larger soundboard, which is optimised with a solid maple bridge plate for both strength and energy.
As with all Alvarez acoustic guitars, the MDA66SHB features a real bone nut, which maintains its authentic appearance and offers excellent resonance and sustain. The main benefit of a bone nut is to deliver a balanced tone, and eliminate the strings from slipping. In addition, this type of nut naturally self lubricates and helps you stay in tune for longer.
In addition to providing a perfect tone and appearance, the MDA66SHB Acoustic Guitar also features a set of D’Addario EXP strings. These plain steel strings feature hexagonal cores made of revolutionary NY High Carbon Steel. Manufactured in New York, these newly engineered, break-resistant, high-carbon strings deliver unprecedented strength and pitch stability.