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ERNIE BALL MUSIC MAN ST VINCENT GOLDIE

There’s only one word for this guitar: spectacular. Want a few more? Try ‘even prettier than the standard Music Man St Vincent’. This is the Goldie – and it’s fair to say our first impressions are favourable.

The latest signature model for megastar Annie Clark, this three-pickup solidbody tweaks the radical design of the 2016 original in a number of interesting ways, most notably swapping out its three DiMarzio mini-humbuckers for a new custom-made type with gold foil tops.

That should certainly have a significant effect on the sonics, but there are purely aesthetic changes here too. The most obvious is the scratchplate, which no longer hogs

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