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The select spruce top Epiphone DR-212 12-String Acoustic Guitar is a dreadnought with mahogany body that delivers the tones and warmth you want. The set mahogany neck and rosewood fingerboard deliver great feel. Epiphone gives you chrome die-cast machine heads with your DR-212 guitar to provide great tuning stability.
I purchased this guitar two months ago, and I have not been able to put the thing down. The action and quality of this guitar is just remarkable. Not to sound redundant or cliche, but it plays like something that cost two to three times more. I really love this guitar and it is one of my favorite instruments to play. It is one of the best sounding guitars I've played, regardless of price...
Great guitar for every cent. I bought this thing not expecting much, but an majorly over-pleased with it. This guitar can easily contend and most likely beat guitars twice or three times its price. I am in love with this guitar. It has all the qualities of more expensive guitars except for a laminated spruce top instead of a solid, no big deal. excellent playability and sounds like a dream.
Having recently invested in a couple of decent guitars (both Martins), I decided that the one thing I still needed was a 12-string! Finding this model listed on many on-line sites (I purchased mine from music123.com) for a 'mere' $150., I went ahead and took this low-ball plunge. What a pleasant surprise it has turned out to be. It isn't perfect, of course. It is quite heavy for anyone not accustomed to a 12-string dreadnaught, it holds the string pitch less well than do the Martins and one of the tuners actually needed to be serviced by an authorized Epiphone repair shop (under Gibson's lifetime warrantee, of course) because it seemed to be too tight. They determined that the problem was not the tuner, but that the instrument had been tuned one full octave too high at the factory (the low second low E string only,) Once lowered, the tuner worked as smoothly as the others! The tone is sweet. Heavy on the treble to be sure, but smooth with a surprisingly easy action. The finish is lovely and easy to maintain. The wider neck takes a little getting used to - especially after the spoiling the Martins have provided me with after many years strumming away on a Harmony Sovereign - but it is not difficult to play. The frequency or needed retuning (after every 6-8 songs) has improved dramatically in the first few weeks - it now holds the tune as well as my Martin 6-strings. I recently attended a Judy Collins concert where she played her signature Martin 12-string - and she retuned after every other song! 12 strings simply take more maintenance than do 6!
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