Gretsch Americana Review

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garydeltadixon's Review of Gretsch Americana acoustic guitar

22nd Feb 2009

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Appearance
    5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    4 stars
  • Reviewer's Musical Standard
    Not supplied
Good Points

Great looks, great authentic parlour sound for blues, good action and frets, lovely in open tuning slide playing, great price, cheap as chips, its made by gretsch!!!!


Bad Points

Thin body and for anything else apart from blues a thin sound, rubbish stings, intonation needed a little work.


General Comments

I use the Gretsch Americana guitar in open g fitted with d'adario medium srings, i raised the action for slide and use the guitar for gigging with a shadow transducer pickup, sounds great and i get a load of interest for this guitar, i did use it for standard playing for a while for ambling around on the sofa at home, would be suited for this purpose for anybody, as a first guitar or as a slide guitar as i use it for, be aware though if fitting a pick up under the strings they are very close the the body so many types will not fit!, am going to purchase the rest of the collection so i can use them in other open tunings to save on retuning.

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