Martin GPC-11E Road Series Acoustic Electric Guitar Natural
Martin GPC-11E Road Series Acoustic Electric Guitar Natural – With a gorgeous glossed spruce top and sapele back and sides, this solid wood Grand Performance model with cutaway is a great sounding guitar at an affordable price. New to this model are stunning mother-of-pearl pattern fingerboard and rosette inlays with a multi-stripe rosette border. It has an FSC® Certified Richlite® fingerboard and bridge, satin finish body, and a hand-rubbed neck finish. Also new to this model is the Martin E-1 electronics package with a built-in soundhole tuner so you can tune up any time without using a pedal. This guitar comes with a Premium Soft Shell Case so it is Road-ready to join you on all of your adventures!
Comfortable Grand Performance body style
The forward, balanced tone of the GPC-11E comes from its Grand Performance body style. This body style provides excellent projection and focus with a warmth that doesn’t boom in the low end or harsh out in the higher range. This sound is popular for both fingerstyle nuance and full-chord strumming. The Grand Performance size gives you more lows than 000 models but is still supremely comfortable during marathon gigs.
Quality solid tonewoods deliver timeless tone
As a top tonewood, Sitka spruce offers a combination of strength and elasticity that delivers a broad dynamic range with crisp articulation — one that’s ideal for a wide variety of playing styles, from delicate fingerpicking to aggressive flatpicked strumming. Sapele, used for the back and sides of the GPC-11E, is tonally similar to mahogany, but its higher density tends to produce a slightly brighter sound with more high-end shimmer. The characteristic sapele sound is consistently balanced across the tonal spectrum, which makes it, again, suitable for a broad range of playing styles.
Smooth-playing Performing Artist neck
Whether you’re recording for hours or playing out late into the night, you’ll be glad you got a Martin Road Series GPC-11E. The GPC-11E features one of Martin’s outstanding Performing Artist series necks, whose slimmer profile is easy on the hand, allowing you to play those extended sessions in comfort.
Martin GPC-11E Road Features:
- Martin tone and innovation come to a competitively priced road warrior
- Built from solid tonewoods for premium projection and resonance
- Comfortable Grand Performance body style with neck cutaway
- Crisp, dynamic Sitka spruce meets a bed of warm, mahogany-like sapele
- Great-playing Performing Artist neck profile
- Gorgeous mother-of-pearl rosette and fingerboard accents
- Martin E1 electronics offer plug-and-play gigging convenience
Tech Specs
- String Type: Steel
- Number of Strings: 6
- Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
- Body Shape: GPC-11E Road Series Grand Performance
- Back & Sides Wood: Sapele
- Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
- Finish: Gloss
- Color: Natural
- Body Bracing: Scalloped X-bracing
- Binding: Black
- Neck Wood: Select Hardwood
- Neck Shape: Performing Artist
- Radius: 16″
- Fingerboard Material: Richlite
- Fingerboard Inlay: Mother-of-pearl Dots, 28 Style
- Number of Frets: 20
- Scale Length: 25.4″
- Nut Width: 1.75″
- Nut/Saddle Material: White Corian/White Tusq
- Bridge Material: Richlite
- Tuning Machines: Chrome Enclosed Gear
- Electronics: Martin E1
- Strings: Lifespan 2.0 92/8 Phosphor Bronze, .012-.054
- Case/Gig Bag: Softshell Case
- Model #: 11GPC11E