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A Gorgeous Custom-cut Grand Auditorium from Alvarez





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The Alvarez Masterworks line offers seasoned and discerning players boutique-grade quality at a great price. The Masterworks seal means not only pro-grade tone and performance, but also refined detail-oriented beauty that looks good onstage. The Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium is a deep-toned, projective guitar shaped from East Indian rosewood that pairs perfectly with the grand auditorium body style. Not only is this larger body style incredibly sonorous, but it is also supremely comfortable with its upper-body cutaway for extra fretboard reach. Each aspect is crafted to playable perfection, including a mahogany neck with hybrid soft “V” to “C” shape. This shape helps players get the perfect grip at each part of the neck for precision fretting. And for gigging artists, the Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium comes equipped with a deluxe LR Baggs HiFi electronics system for rich amplified tone with dynamic response. If you’re searching for a hardworking acoustic guitar built by discerning hands, you can’t go wrong with the Alvarez Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium from Sweetwater!





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Thoughtful spruce and rosewood tonewood design





Bold back and sides carved from solid East Indian rosewood give the Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium warm, pleasing tone with significant balance and sonority. Paired with that is an ultra-premium top carved from AAA Sitka spruce. This lightweight resonant top gives the guitar a strong bump in projection and sustain, as well as a nimble response to player dynamics. Together, these tonewoods create a guitar that’s fiercely articulate and especially suited for recording or gigs.





Comfortable design from the neck down





The Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium is comfortable from the neck down, with design features that ensure comfortable performance from start to finish. Great tonewoods mean little if they aren’t comfortable, and that’s why the Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium features a premium neck crafted from hardwood mahogany. Not only is mahogany a favored tonewood in the acoustic world, but this neck is also further enhanced with a hybrid soft “V” to “C” shape. Alvarez carefully developed this blended neck profile that gives you ideal anchor space in any position. Toward the headstock, the “V” shape yields a better grip for 6-string open and barre chords; further up, the “C” shape gives hands more room for expression and thinking outside the box.





Hardware details that make a difference





This guitar spares no detail, even when it comes to the small things. A plethora of premium onboard hardware ensures this guitar is both beautiful and rugged, so you can rely on it for years to come. A true bone nut and saddle paired with ebony bridge pins maximize the vibrational transfer from strings to body and ensure you’re getting the purest tone possible out of the body and top. Meanwhile, the Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium’s Alvarez tuners offer a precise 20:1 tuning ratio which means powerful tuning stability and less time spent tuning when you do have to tune. And the perks don’t stop there! This guitar also includes purfling and binding made with genuine herringbone detail and ABS, plus a deluxe headstock with an Indian rosewood overlay and a mother-of-pearl inlay.





LR Baggs’ HiFi amplification





The LR Baggs HiFi system is everything players want in an acoustic-electric pickup: balanced sound, non-invasive design, and an impressive resistance to feedback. The system is beyond reliable and offers 700 hours of use on just a single 9V battery. Consisting of a HiFi preamp, two bridge plate sensors, a discrete endpin jack, and volume and tone controls, the HiFi’s magic lies in how the system preserves acoustic integrity. Just look at the bridge plate sensors, which use materials and placement that listen to acoustic movement and tonewoods without dampening natural resonance. These sensors are guests of the sound chamber, not intruders, and what you hear is your guitar’s inherent sound and nothing more.





Alvarez Masterworks 70 Grand Auditorium Acoustic-electric Features:


Beautiful grand auditorium acoustic-electric guitar with smooth contours, clear bass, and shimmering mid to high-end tones


AAA Sitka spruce top delivers incredible vibrant tone with strong volume and classic response


Gloss-finished solid East Indian rosewood back and sides shape tone with warm projection and lasting sustain


Body cutaway ensures additional upper-fret access


Mahogany neck with hybrid soft “V” to “C” shape for maximum playability up and down the neck


Supple Indian rosewood fingerboard with 12th-fret inlay made from mother-of-pearl and paua abalone


Crafted dovetail neck joint enhances tone and vibrational transfer from strings to body


Forward Shifted spruce bracing fuels even response across highs, mids, and lows


Onboard LR Baggs HiFi preamp with built-in dynamic EQ


Hardwood bridge crafted from Indian rosewood


Deluxe headstock with Indian rosewood overlay and mother-of-pearl inlay


Upscale hardware, including bone nut and saddle, enhance vibrational transfer for better tone


Alvarez tuners with precision 20:1 ratio ensure fast tuning and strong stability


Premium purfling and binding made from herringbone and ABS