- Solid Sitka spruce top with scalloped braces gives you clean articulation and a crisp tone.
- Mahogany back and sides for a robust sound and resonance.
- Slim mahogany neck offers fast, easy action and inherently long-lasting stability.
- Choice East Indian rosewood fingerboard ensures silky smooth playability.
- Nickel-plated 14:1 tuners are smooth and precise to always keep you in tune.
Product Description
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The BR-40 Blueridge guitar is certainly the workhorse of the
Blueridge Contemporary line. Every detail makes for easy
playability and a big, powerful tone. Features like a select
solid Sitka spruce top, mahogany back, sides, neck and rosewood
fingerboard and peghead overlay combined with a host of other
gorgeous accouterments like multi-ply body binding, M-O-P inlays,
and nickel-plated Kluson style tuners really make this a
professional-level guitar at an extremely affordable price.
Authentic prewar bracing ensures tone and volume just like the
finest guitars.
From the Manufacturer
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Presenting the BR-40 Contemporary Dreaught Acoustic Guitar by
Blueridge™ Guitars
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The BR-40 Blueridge™ guitar is certainly the workhorse of the
Blueridge Contemporary line. Every detail makes for easy
playability and a big, powerful tone. Features like a solid Sitka
spruce top, mahogany back, sides, neck and rosewood fingerboard
and peghead overlay combined with a host of other gorgeous
accoutrements like multi-ply body binding, M-O-P inlays, and
nickel-plated vintage-style open gear tuners really make this a
professional-level guitar at an extremely affordable price.
Authentic pre-war bracing ensures tone and volume just like the
finest guitars.
Carved neck
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The Body Wood Selections
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Solid Sitka spruce, one of the world's lightest, strongest and
most durable woods, is used for the tops of our Contemporary
Series guitars. When combined with the pre-war forward-X bracing
pattern, the top has the perfect balance of strength and
flexibility to promote the ideal tone. For the back and sides,
you have a choice of select mahogany or nicely-figured Santos
rosewood. The entire guitar is finished in a high-gloss natural
shade that displays the beauty of the woods employed.
The Fingerboards and Fittings
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Headstock
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Every Contemporary Series guitar features a fingerboard and
bridge of East Indian rosewood-chosen for its hardness and
stability as well as its beauty. The standard models feature
pearl position dots while the top models of the BR-70 series have
hexagonal outlines of abalone pearl to complement the matching
pearl inlaid border of the top and the central soundhole rosette
ring. A traditional teardrop-shaped pickguard of black ABS is
used on all models, and the mahogany models are bound in black
ABS while the rosewood models feature white ABS binding.
Vintage-style, open-back tuners with butterbean buttons are used
on all models. These 14:1 ratio gears turn smoothly and easily
and will give years of trouble-free service. They are heavily
nickel-plated, with gold-plate on the BR-70 series.
The Construction
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Every feature of construction that has made the pre-war
instruments so great is used on these new Contemporary Series
guitars. The dovetail neck/body joint is the strongest known and
all interior blocks and braces are just big enough to combine
sufficient strength with the least possible weight. The nut width
of 1 11/16" is designed to please both acoustic and electric
guitar players and the neck profile is small and properly shaped
for the ultimate in playing ease and comfort.
Body
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The Details
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With the top being the single most important factor in the
production of tone, the combination of a solid top with laminated
back and sides offers a great sounding guitar that can be priced
so affordably as to be within the means of virtually ANY
guitarist- even the aspiring student. An added bonus is the
crack-resistant nature of the laminated wood which, though
strong, is still thin enough to add resonance to the tone.
Blueridge offers in these Contemporary Series guitars the perfect
balance of tone, playability and affordability that has made us
the true benchmark that all other makes strive to emulate.
Blueridge guitars offer you the most value for less!
More about the Contemporary series
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Nickel-plated tuners
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The Blueridge Contemporary Series offers guitarists instruments
priced easily within the means of the serious student, but have
all the features that the pro player demands. A solid top of
closegrained spruce, braced with the time-honored forward-X
bracing pattern, offers tone and volume that you won't find
anywhere else at such an affordable price! The slim, low-profile
mahogany neck is designed for the modern player and the
adjustable truss rod keeps the neck in perfect alignment at all
times. The styling is tasteful and understated with delicate
black and white lines of ornamental purfling on the standard
models and the top model has a top border and soundhole rosette
of genuine abalone pearl. Incorporating all the accepted
construction methods that made the pre-war guitars so great,
these guitars sound fabulous right out of the box. With select
models featuring Fishman electronics and a cutaway option, our
Contemporary Series has just the right guitar for any musical
need!
Available Finishes:
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Natural (gloss)
Key Features
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* Select, Solid Sitka Spruce top with hand-carved parabolic
braces in the authentic Pre-war forward X-pattern
* Rosewood bridge. nut and saddle. Natural high-gloss
finish.
* East Indian rosewood fingerboard with adjustable truss rod,
carved mahogany, low profile neck and dovetail neck joint.
* Mahogany back and sides with M.O.P. dot markers.
* Accurate vintage-style 14:1 ratio nickel-plated open-back
tuners with butterbean-style buttons.
* 5-ply body binding (B/W/B/W/B)
* Shop adjusted.
Specifications:
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Back and Side Material Select Mahogany Back Inlay None Binding
Black ABS Body Type Dreaught Brace Material Spruce Bridge &
End Pins Black ABS Bridge Material Indian Rosewood Bridge Plate
le Fingerboard & Peghead Binding None Fingerboard Material
Indian Rosewood Fingerboard Position Inlays M-O-P Dots Finish
Natural High Gloss Headstock Style Solid Heelcap Black ABS Logo
Inlay Style M-O-P / Abalone Neck Material Select Solid Mahogany
Number of Frets Clear 14 Number of Frets Total 20 Nut Material
Nut Width 1-11/16" Peghead Overlay Indian Rosewood Pickguard
Black Plating Nickel Saddle Scale Length 25.6" (650mm) Side
Inlay None Soundhole Rosette Traditional Multi-Ply ABS Top Select
Sitka Spruce Top Bracing Pattern Pre-war-style Forward Shifted
X-Bracing Top Purfling Multi-ply W-B-W Tuning Machines Gotoh
Vintage-style / Open-back / Butterbean Buttons
Related Instruments:
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BR-40 ( http://www..com/dp/B001G7DD4G/ ) BR-60
( http://www..com/dp/B001G7DCYW/ ) BR-70
( http://www..com/dp/B001JVTGYK/ ) Sitka Spruce Top Mahogany
Back/Sides Santos Rosewood Back/Sides Indian Rosewood Fingerboard
and Bridge Nickel-plated tuners Gold-plated tuners
More about Blueridge Guitars
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Blueridge guitars have been an integral part of the Bluegrass
music scene for more than 30 years. Just as thousands of
beginners, amateurs and professional players use our guitars,
some of the most famous and legendary figures in the history of
the music proudly endorse their own signature model Blueridge
guitars and these special models are now available to all players
and collectors at very affordable prices.
More about Saga Musical Instruments
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For more than 35 years, Saga Musical Instruments has steadily
grown to be a global pioneer in the successful development,
marketing and distribution of high-quality traditional American
and European-designed student and professional acoustic musical
instruments. We continue to set quality and value standards every
day. In order to achieve such high standards, we travel the world
in search of skilled manufacturing sources, and the finest raw
materials available to achieve our unwavering quality
requirements and supply demands.
When you purchase a product from Saga Musical Instruments, you
can rest assured that it is from the source, and that it will
exceed your every expectation. Let Saga® be your Source!
