Blueridge BR-60T Contemporary Series Tenor Acoustic Guitar

Product Review

The Blueridge BR-60T Contemporary Series Tenor guitar is a step up for the advanced player who desires a fancier model than our BR-40T, and its affordable price puts it solidly within reach of the majority of the guitar playing public. It will appeal to all tenor guitarists as well as 6-string players anxious to expand their arsenal of guitars and their musical boundaries.

Product Features

Select solid Sitka spruce top with hand carved parabolic braces in the authentic X pattern and has Santos rosewood back and sides
Natural high gloss finish with multi ply white body binding and a carved mahogany low profile neck with dot position markers
East Indian rosewood fingerboard and bridge a dovetail neck body joint
The Blueridge logo is in m o p with ornate m o p and abalone peghead inlay
Bone nut and saddle a black pickguardand vintage style 14:1 ratio nickel plated open back tuners with butterbean style buttons

Customer Reviews

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Blueridge BR-60T: First Impressions, August 8, 2011

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I've had the BR-60T about a month now. When it arrived, it sounded like what it was, a guitar fresh out of the box, brash and clangy. I was glad to hear that it's a loud little guy. The woods are attractive, with a nice inlay strip in the back, and all the finish work is immaculate. It does not come with a case; however, I had a spare classical-size case (also Martin 00 or the Gibson B series), and with a towel or two, the Blueridge fits pretty well.

The Blueridge arrived unscathed, but I am concerned about Amazon's packing. The BR-60T was double-boxed, but with just a bit of wadded paper in the outer box. If I had bought this a month later, when temperatures were reaching 110 with a THI higher still (Texas in August 2011), there could have been some serious heat damage.

Since I play GDAE tuning, and it came tuned CDAE, I took it to a local shop to have the nut slots widened to accommodate the heavier strings. Now, with almost daily play, the sound has coalesced...Read more