BT-258E DELUXE BARITONE

For 2021, acoustic grand marque Guild has added a pair of baritones to its affordable California-designed and Asia-made Westerly Collection. Both are based around Guild’s much-loved jumbo body, which debuted on the F-50 in 1954. The BT-240E is a six-string, tuned B-to-B, while our review guitar, the BT-258E, takes things a little further into the realm of the recherché with octave pairs on the third and fourth strings – and why not?

The eight-string baritone (tuned five steps below standard) has been around for a few years now. The design can probably be attributed to Taylor’s Baritone-8 but even that