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Gretsch G5655TG Electromatic Center Block Jr. SC CERLN
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Features
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Neck profile: Thin "U"
Fast and precise playability, better for small hands. -
Scale length: 24" (610 - 634mm)
Shorter scale length for easier bends. -
Fretboard: Indian Laurel
Soft, warm sound with clear articulation. -
Neck construction: Glued in
Significantly longer sustain than screw-on necks -
Pickup: HH (2x humbuckers)
Full, warm sound with strong mids and highs and pronounced sustain. -
Body material: Maple locked
Bright, concise sound with lots of sustain. -
Fretboard radius: 12"
Better playability, especially when bending.
The Electromatic Center Block Jr. guitars are designed for the pure and powerful Gretsch sound at high volumes. The G5655TG Electromatic Center Block Jr. Cerulean Smoke with Bigsby features a smaller body with maple top, bottom and sides and a spruce center block with chambering for dynamic resonance, high gain power and low weight. A bound maple neck offers effortless playability, while the 12" radius laurel fretboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and Neo Classic thumbnail inlays provides excellent conditions for fast solos.
The two Black Top Broad'Tron humbucking pickup deliver a powerful, dynamic and articulate tone with improved punch. The combination of individual pickup volume controls, master tone and master volume with treble bleed circuit makes it possible to flexibly use the tonal possibilities of this instrument.
The Bigsby B70 vibrato tailpiece adds more expression to playing, while the Center Block anchored Adjusto-Matic bridge and synthetic bone saddle provide amazing tuning stability and precise intonation.
The new models have been carefully crafted with the essential Gretsch sound, style and performance and offer the genuine and captivating authenticity that has distinguished Gretsch for decades. It is the sound of honor itself. In this sense: Play Proud!
- Body material: Maple locked
- Body shape: Single cut
- Bridge / tremolo: Gretsch Adjustomatic with Bigsby
- Bridge pickup: Gretsch Black Top filter'Tron™
- Color / finish: Blue
- Color / finish: Cerulean Smoke
- Controls: 2x volume, 1x master volume
- Country of origin: China
- Custom shop: No
- Fretboard: Indian Laurel
- Fretboard inlays: Neo Classic Thumbnails
- Fretboard radius: 12"
- Frets: 22
- Hardware: Gold
- Neck: Maple
- Neck construction: Glued in
- Neck pickup: Gretsch Black Top filter'Tron™
- Neck profile: Thin "U"
- Pickup: HH (2x humbuckers)
- Pickup selector switch: 3-way toggle
- Pickup type: Passive
- Scale length: 24" (610 - 634mm)
- Scale length: 24.6" (625mm)
- Signature model: No
- Special features: Center block
- Strings: 6-string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Semi hollow body
- Top: Maple locked
Since its founding in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, Gretsch has expertly delivered musical instruments of the highest quality that are both influenced and appreciated by some of the music industry's most respected artists. Including Chet Atkins, Eddie Cochran, Billy Duffy, Bono, Duane Eddy, George Harrison, Brian Setzer, Stephen Stills and Malcolm Young.
27-year-old Friedrich Gretsch, a German immigrant, initially began his company's career by manufacturing banjos, drums and tambourines. However, just 12 years later, Friedrich died and left the young company to his son Fred, who was only 15 years old at the time. This, by no means a typical teenager, built the company into one of the leading importers and manufacturers of musical instruments in America. Knowing that the key to growth lay in listening to what the public wanted - and they wanted guitars - Gretsch began manufacturing the coveted six-string.
First from 1926 in the form of acoustic archtops for jazz music, which was rapidly gaining popularity at the time, and a handful of flattops for the sounds of country and western, which were always popular in the USA. In 1935, Gretsch launched the legendary Broadkaster drum series, which was successful until the 1950s. Gretsch's contribution to the emergence of electrical amplification was the first Electromatic® in 1939, a hollow-body construction / acoustic that has remained in the repertoire to this day in a contemporary design.
In 1942, after 50 years of successful business, Fred Gretsch Senior left the company to his son Fred Gretsch Junior. Since production was interrupted during the turmoil of World War II, he left the business to his brother Bill in order to serve in the Navy himself. Unfortunately, like his grandfather, Bill died very young in 1948, so the naval officer Fred, who was no longer active, took over the helm of the family business again.
Since 1953, the company has also cultivated its expertise in solid-body guitars, which addressed increasingly loud concerts with their greatly reduced sensitivity to feedback. The semi-acoustic department has now expanded to include guitars with center block construction / acoustic , which combine the tonal properties of a hollow body guitar with the practical aspects of a solid body.
Since George Harrison's appearance with the Beatles and his Country Gentleman on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Gretsch has finally become a permanent star in the firmament of iconic guitars, which is clearly reflected in 1965 in the form of the highest production volume in the company's history.
In 1967, at the height of success, so to speak, Fred Gretsch Jr. decided to take a well-deserved retirement and sold the company to the Baldwin Piano Company, which took over the business. Unfortunately with limited success. Fortunately, Dinah Gretsch joined the company in 1979 and was able to pave the way for a buyback, which her husband Fred W. Gretsch, the founder's grandchild, was able to complete 17 years after the sale. Together, the couple brought the company back to its former glory, where it still shines today.
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