Alvarez MG66CE Masterworks Grand Auditorium Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar (Shadowburst)

The MG66ce is beautiful and powerful yet understated, with clean lines and minimal decoration. This design language allows the beautiful solid African mahogany top to take center stage, shimmering under a flawless gloss finish.

Sonically, this guitar is everything you would expect from an all-solid Grand Auditorium mahogany body. It has been designed to deliver a strong and articulate voicing, instant response and more open projection than is normally associated with hardwood tops. Bass frequencies are clear and the mahogany delivers strong, woody tones with lots of middle frequency, sparkling trebles and boundless energy, making this guitar a joy to play.

This cutaway model allows for easy access up the neck and is fitted with the LR Baggs HiFi system.

About the Alvarez Masterworks Series

Making a guitar from all-solid wood delivers strong tonal benefits, and we approach the design of Masterworks to embrace all of them. Top thickness, brace weight and tapering, back design and wood choice all count, and when each is considered as a part of the sum total of the instrument’s voice, great articulation and quality of tone is achieved.

Our FS6 bracing system is a forward-shifted, scalloped X allowing for a slightly larger soundboard area around the bridge. This helps generate more vibration, which is heightened by AAA soundboards and premium components throughout, culminating in powerful voicing, inspiring articulation and instant response.

Masterworks acoustic-electric models are fitted with the LR Baggs HiFi system. HiFi is a premium, non-invasive design that pairs dual bridge plate sensors with high-fidelity electronics, providing exceptional balance, definition and dynamics. Due to the closed sensor design, HiFi also has excellent feedback resistance and its built-in, studio-quality preamp is voiced to compliment the pickups for an optimal plug-and-play experience.

All Masterworks ship with our durable AFC30 Flexicase.

Specifications

• Top Wood: Solid African Mahogany
• Back and Sides Wood: Solid African Mahogany
• Top Color: Shadowburst/Gloss
• Back & Sides Color: Natural/Gloss
• Headstock Facia: East Indian Rosewood
• Bridge Pins: Ebony
• Shape: Grand Auditorium
• Neck: African Mahogany
• Case or Bag: AFC30
• Bracing: FS6
• Bridge: Bi-Level Indian Rosewood
• Inlays: Premium MOP
• Fingerboard: East Indian Rosewood
• Nut and Saddle: Bone
• Tuner: Premium Open Gear
• Strings: D’Addario XSAPB1253
• Neck Meets Body: 14th Fret
• Number of Frets: 21
• Pickup / EQ: LR Baggs HiFi

Dimensions

• Overall Length (mm): 1035
• Body Width (mm): 404
• Body Depth at Heel (mm): 96
• Body Depth at Base (mm): 120
• Scale (mm): 648
• Scale (inches): 25 1/2
• Nut Width (mm): 44.45
• Nut Width (inches): 1 3/4