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Dean Performer Archtop Acoustic Electric Guitar
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Dean Performer Archtop Acoustic Electric Guitar

The Dean Guitars Performer acoustics combine the popular mini-jumbo body design, traditional features and innovative design.
Dean has taken acoustic guitars to a truly revolutionary new level. The gorgeous Performer Archtop has a select spruce arch top, mahogany back and sides, Fishman electronics, as well as die cast tuners. The carefully constructed neck is mahogany with a 25.5-inch scale length rosewood fingerboard.



About Dean Guitars - A Quick History Lesson...
Dean Guitars was born in 1976, in the attic of the Chicago suburban childhood home of company founder Dean B. Zelinsky. The eighteen-year-old Zelinsky was convinced that guitar design and manufacturing had hit a wall. Rock music was huge and guitar makers were failing to keep up with the times. The world was ready for a guitar that looked, played, and sounded superior to what was available from manufacturers at that time. Zelinsky had a better idea.

What followed was a line of electric guitars that for the first time allowed players to play to their potential. With its highly visible V-shaped headstock and trademark wing logo, Dean became in effect, the first boutique guitar line in the history of rock music.

These guitars had to be played to be believed, and played they were! Dean guitars started showing up on rock stages worldwide, album covers, and especially on the newly emerging channel called MTV. Dean Guitars were featured in the award-winning MTV Video of the Year three of the first four years running. By the time Dean created the famous Spinning Fur Guitars Dean’s early place in Rock history was firmly cemented.

Over a quarter century later, you can still buy that same USA made boutique Dean Guitar. Today, Dean Guitars has taken that same concept of creating a superior instrument to a whole new level. Dean is now a full line of fretted instruments including electric and acoustic guitars, basses, jazz guitars, resonators, banjos and mandolins. More importantly, Dean is dedicated to delivering these fine quality instruments at a value that is second to none.
    -- No longer do you need to be a platinum selling artist to play Dean!

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Dean Performer Archtop Acoustic Electric Guitar Specifications

  • Dean Electronics
  • Celluloid/ABA
  • Mother of Pearl Dot Inlays
  • Select Spruce and Mahogany back, sides and top
  • Die Cast Tuners
  • Mahogany Neck
  • Rosewood Fingerboard


 
 
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guitarman1000 from Mt. Sterling, KY, USA
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Subject:Great Beginner Guitar
Quality: It seems to be constructed pretty well, even if it is made in china.
Sound: Ok, for a cheaper guitar, but as with all small bodied guitars, you really do need to plug it in to really hear it the way it was supposed to sound.
Reliability: I'd have to say, ok, but then again, I just got it less than a week ago.
Overall: Overal, it's ok, but I am not crazy about the archtop body. To me it gets in the way of playing leads. It's great for strumming. And it does not have a pick guard.
Playability and Feel: This wasn't too bad at all. Not much to complain of.
Tone: It's bright. I have definately heard a lot better, mostly in higher end guitars, but for a cheaper guitar, not too bad.
Finish: Excellent.
Action: Ok, here, but it does need to be setup properly, but I have seen a lot worse, but for a beginner, this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Do you own this product?: yes
Date submitted: 10/21/2009
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