Premier Concert CE LTD Burnt Amber

Versatile Play Style

The Breedlove Play Style system was created to help you, the player, select your sound and playing style. Finding the most appropriate guitar to fit your sound requires finding not only the correct body shape, but the proper tonewood combinations to fit your style of play. Each Breedlove guitar is designed for a specific play style and sound, the Play Style systems assign a playing style icon to each instrument.

V | Versatile Play, Multiple Styles: Breedlove crafts most guitars with a versatile “all-purpose” sound and feel – well balanced between strumming and fingerstyle play.

THE CONCERT BODY SHAPE

The Concert is our most popular body shape, favored by players because it is well-balanced, compact, comfortable to play, and offers all the qualities of a great sounding guitar. It generates a wonderfully articulate range of tone with an ample low end that is never boomy, but always felt. The Concert works well when played fingerstyle, as vocal accompaniment, or at a full strum.

In the 1960s, a church ornament company on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain imported a shipment of rosewood logs from Brazil to make elaborate adornments for the continent’s copious cathedrals. The ornament company went out of business soon thereafter, and the logs were sold to a tonewood supplier for high-quality stringed instruments named Madinter. After the 1992 ban on rosewood trade, the wood became very difficult to sell internationally, so Madinter shelved it and kind of forgot about it. For another two decades this trove sat and waited.

In 2013, Breedlove approached Madinter and offered to acquire all of the remaining Brazilian rosewood. Because the wood was purchased and imported well before the 1992 prohibition, and because Madinter possessed all of the documentation confirming its mid-20th-century arrival in Spain, it could be legally exported to the United States with full CITES compliance.

With this large, exclusive treasure of Brazilian tonewood sets, Breedlove crafts fully legal, completely ethical rosewood guitars at half the cost other companies are charging. Those instruments can travel throughout the world with a guitar passport issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.