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Ibanez AE255BT Baritone Acoustic

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DAVID MEAD, Guitarist, Deputy Editor

Our intrepid tunings explorer plays a game of ‘how low can I go?’ with the Ibanez AE255BT baritone acoustic, aiming for an increased range that offers the perfect spread of pitches

Now, where were we? I’ve been busily indulging my wont for low-slung acoustic tonalities with the Ibanez AE255BT for a while now. In the last instalment, I tried a simple restring and fell at the first post – quite literally. I found that the holes in the tuning

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