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THE 2021 ACOUSTIC GEAR ROUNDUP

DOES ANYBODY REALLY know what time it is? Everything seems to be taking place in a surreal space-time continuum, but despite pandemic-era factory closings and production suspensions, there continues to be plenty happening on the acoustic manufacturing front. Here is a selection of gear that’s come out recently or is about to drop, just in time for your holiday shopping considerations.

1 BREEDLOVE

Eco Collection

Breedlove is turning over a new leaf by eliminating the use of clear-cut wood in its 2021 model line. And with the company’s new Eco Collection, players of all piggy-bank sizes can own a solid-top guitar with EcoTonewood back and sides. EcoTonewood technology is a new lamination process designed to integrate three layers in such a way as to avoid the tone-dampening, soft center-core of standard laminates. Breedlove sandwiches sturdy African mahogany into the 17 guitars of

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