Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Hummingbird 12-string, Aged Cherry Sunburst

Are you looking to add all new sonic textures to your acoustic sound, with a guitar that offers a bright tone and beautifully balanced sonic range? Then we have just the thing for you.

A Modern-Day, 12-String Take On The Iconic Gibson Hummingbird

With the Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Hummingbird 12-String, seen here with an Aged Cherry Sunburst Gloss finish, you get an electro-acoustic guitar with a voice glorious enough to match its looks.

Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Hummingbird 12-String, Aged Cherry Sunburst Highlights

• Electro Acoustic guitar with a square-shouldered dreadnought body shaoe
• Solid Mahogany back and sides, with a Solid Sitka Spruce top
• Comfortable-to-play Rounded “C”-shaped neck, with a bound Laurel fingerboard
• Genuine bone nut offers maximum string vibrational transference
• Fishman electronics allow for easy plug and play options
• Superb value for money – ideal for both stage and studio work

Solid Wood Construction

To deliver an astonishingly rich and vibrant sound befitting of the name Hummingbird, this guitar has been crafted with all solid tonewoods – Mahogany for the back and sides, and Sitka Spruce for the top.

This tonewood pairing produces a classic combination of clarity and power, with a woody voice that’s perfect for folk guitar players, but also suitable for a wide variety of musical styles.

What’s A 12-String?

As the name would suggest, a 12-stringed guitar has double the number of strings than that of a standard six-string.

The extra upper-register strings are tuned in unison with the strings next to them (B and E), giving you a “doubling up” effect when played.

In contrast to this, the four lower-register extra strings are tuned to an octave higher than the string next to them.

The end result is a much fuller and more resonant sound than a standard six-string, and gives you the ability to add a whole new sonic dimension to your compositions.

Plug N’ Play

For those situations where simply playing acousticly isn’t enough and you need an amplified boost, Epiphone have equipped this guitar with a Fishman Sonicore under saddle pickup and Sonitone preamp.

These electronics allow you to plug into your favourite amp or a PA system, and will reproduce an accurate audio image of your guitar’s natural sound.

In addition to this, the preamp is of a discreet, soundhole-mounted design and features rotary controls for both volume and tone, allowing you to make subtle adjustments to your output if needed.

Please Note: Although this guitar is listed as featuring Grover tuning machines, it may instead ship with Wilkinson tuners fitted. This is because Epiphone are currently in the process of altering their current acoustic and electric guitar model specs, with this being one of the key changes.

Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Hummingbird 12-String, Aged Cherry Sunburst Specs

Body

• Shape: Square Shoulder Dreadnought
• Material: Solid Mahogany
• Back and Sides: Solid Mahogany
• Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
• Binding: 6-ply Top, 4-ply Back

Neck

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Profile: Rounded C
• Nut Width: 1.875″ / 47.625mm
• Fingerboard: Indian Laurel, Antique Ivory binding
• Scale Length: 24.724″ / 628mm
• Number of Frets: 20
• Nut: Bone
• Inlay: Mother of Pearl Split Parallelogram

Hardware

• Bridge: 12-String, Reverse Bell
• Tuners: Grover Mini Rotomatic
• Plating: Nickel

Electronics

• Under Saddle Pickup: Fishman Sonicore
• Controls: Fishman Sonitone Soundhole mounted Volume and Tone