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Outstanding, Affordable Parlor Guitar





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Looking for a high-performance parlor guitar that actually sounds good? The Fender Classic Design CP-60S 6-string Parlor Guitar offers a charming vintage sound in the studio or on the tour bus. It has features normally found on more expensive acoustic guitars, including a solid spruce top, mahogany back and sides, a mahogany neck with a comfortable Easy-to-Play profile, and a smooth rosewood fingerboard with rolled edges. Its parlor shape has an old-school look and produces a retro sound that never goes out of style. The CP-60S's quality tonewoods make this guitar versatile; it's capable of sensitive expression as well as full-bodied projection for vocal accompaniment, campfire singalongs, and other unplugged applications. The instructors at Sweetwater's Academy of Music often recommend Fender Classic Design guitars like the CP-60S to their beginning and intermediate students, because they offer a combination of quality, playability, looks, and value that can't be beat.





Quality tonewoods generate classic tone





Spruce is highly valued for guitar tops ? and for good reason. This stiff but elastic softwood is gorgeous and is equally suited to aggressive flatpicking and fingerpicking styles of play. The CP-60S has a solid spruce top that emits gorgeous, bright musicality. This guitar is also made with mahogany back and sides, producing warm, balanced tones from low to high end. With its graceful, ergonomically pleasing parlor shape and rosewood fingerboard, the CP-60S is a guitar that just looks, plays, and sounds great.





Comfortable parlor size and shape with scalloped bracing





Parlor guitars practically beg to be played, nestling into the player's body like no other guitar shape allows ? and their shorter scale length (24.75" on the CP-60S) enhances playability even further. Inside that beautiful body, the CP-60S features scalloped X bracing, which provides firm support for the top while letting it resonate more freely than conventional bracing. The overall result is a guitar that achieves optimal tone and volume for its size.





Fender Classic Design CP-60S 6-string Acoustic Parlor Guitar Features:


Parlor shape and size evoke a retro vibe, feel, and sound loved by players and microphones alike


Shorter 24.75" scale length is more comfortable to hold


Solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides offer visual appeal and rich tones at great volumes


Scalloped X bracing firmly supports the top while letting it resonate freely for optimal tone


Rolled fingerboard edges for enhanced playing ease and confidence


Mahogany neck with slim Easy-to-Play profile for fast, comfortable picking and strumming