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See Some of the Gear and Guitars We've Given Away.
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Great Guitars and Gear
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Breedlove Guitar Company
Prize: Breedlove Extraordinary Experience—the guitarist’s vacation, complete with the ultimate souvenir
Description: The Breedlove Extraordinary Experience is an all-inclusive 4-day getaway to Breedlove’s custom shop in the resort town of Bend, Oregon. The prize package includes FREE lodging, FREE meals, and FREE entertainment, plus a $500 voucher to cover travel expenses to and from Bend.
 Plus, the winner of this giveaway also gets to take home a custom-built instrument. Winner gets to choose the actual woods and materials used for his guitar or mandolin.
Prize value: $6,500
Date awarded: June 15, 2009
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RainSong Guitars
Prize: Black Ice Graphie Guitar, BI-WS1000N2
Description: Unique in design and unique in tone, each instrument in the Black Ice Series is one of a kind. Every soundboard is individually conceived and meticulously crafted without being overbuilt.
Features the N2 neck, designed in collaboration with renowned artist Steve Miller and master luthier John Bolin. Based on a modified 'U' profile that has been popular in guitars since the 1950s, the N2 has a more substantial feel than the original six-string neck. The N2 also features a truss rod that is accessible from the headstock.
Prize value: $3,295
Date awarded: June 1, 2009
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RainSong Guitars
Prize: Concert Series Graphite Guitar, CO-WS1000N2
Description: Unidirectional carbon construction mimics the tight grain of spruce, giving the new Concert Series an ultralight soundboard and exceptionally warm tone.
Retail value: $3,195
Date awarded: May 28, 2009
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Cole Clark Guitars
Prize: Cole Clark Fat Lady 3A
Description: The FL3A's Pickup system features nine sensors: six under the saddle, and three FaceBrace Sensors. The guitar also features an additional sensor to capture the vibration of the back. The fat bottom end is taken from the Piezoelectric sensors under the saddle to reduce feedback.
The FL3A's sides and back are made of solid Tasmanian Blackwood. It's solid top is crafted from Bunya, a remarkably strong, lightweight wood that's sustainably grown and harvested in Australia. It is finished with finely detailed timber body and fingerboard binding, creative face and fingerboard inlays.
Retail value: $3,579.99
Date awarded: May 29, 2009
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Takamine Guitars
Prize: Takamine TF430SS Singer Songwriter plus the Genz Benz Shenandoah Pro LT acoustic amplifier
Description: Elegant songwriting tool with a classic, vintage vibe. The guitar is built with luthier-selected, solid cedar top and solid ovangkol back and sides, a semi-gloss finish, and comes equipped with a pickup and CTP-2 preamp. The warm, lush tone and wide dynamic range of the Takamine Singer Songwriter provide excellent support for a solo vocalist, and its sweet voice responds superbly to a variety of playing styles.
 The Genz Benz Shenandoah Pro LT includes a 12AX7 tube to the preamp, and a highly efficient 300 watt neodymium 12-inch loudspeaker, chosen for its articulate response. Also features a rear-ported cabinet and bottom mounted, tilt-back stand that will angle the amp up toward the performer. Sustainable plywood and Baltic birch construction make this professional acoustic amp lightweight and portable.
Retail value of guitar: $2,219
Retail value of amp: $1,499
Total retail value: $3,718
Date awarded: March 15, 2009
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C.F. Martin & Co.
Prize: Special Edition D-28 Commemorative Elvis Presley Guitar
Description: Features back and sides of East Indian rosewood and a top of Carpathian spruce. The combination of these fine tonewoods produces a responsive instrument with impressive volume, punch, and sustain. The Style 28 rosette is matched by Style 28 purfling around the top and back. The body is bound in grained ivoroid.
Retail value: $6,999
Date Awarded: December 15, 2008
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Córdoba Guitars
Prize: Córdoba 12 “Jet” Guitar
Description: Features a solid Canadian cedar top, African mahogany back and sides, jet-black finish and a mother of pearl bridge.
Retail value: $825
Date Awarded: September 8, 2008
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Córdoba Guitars
Prize: Córdoba 14 “Rose” Guitar
Description: Features a solid Indian rosewood top, Indian rosewood back and sides, cedar neck, and ebony fingerboard. Prize included HumiCase.
Retail value: $1,125
Date Awarded: September 8, 2008
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Córdoba Guitars
Prize: Córdoba 14 “RS” Guitar
Description: Features a solid spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides and cedar neck. Other attributes include a neck with steel string-like feel and dimensions. Prize included HumiCase.
Retail value: $1,075
Date Awarded: September 8, 2008
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Saga Instruments - Blueridge Guitars
Prize: Blueridge BR-260
Description: A modern masterpiece with features traditionally found only on vintage instruments—boasts an amazingly loud and booming tone. Features solid Sitka spruce top with an aged, high-gloss finish for that perfect vintage look; premium, hand-selected, and matching solid Brazilian rosewood back, sides, and peghead overlay.
Retail value: $3,645
Plus: Travelite TL-50 Case
Description: The Travelite TL-50 guitar case is one of the lightest, most durably contructed cases on the market today.
Retail value: $119.95
Date awarded: July 15, 2008
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Baden Guitars
Prize: Baden D-Style Koa Guitar
Description: Features solid woods throughout, including exquisite koa back and sides, a European spruce top, and a comfortable single-piece mahogany neck. Solid wood binding and high gear-ratio Gotoh machines with ebony buttons show Baden's overall attention to detail. And the Keystone rosette, a small triangular-shaped inlay embedded at the top of the soundhole, rounds out the otherwise understated appearance of this exceptional guitar.
Retail value: $5,000
Date Awarded: May 15, 2008
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Crafter USA
Prize: Crafter SA-KB-G Slim Arch Top Guitar
Description: Features a spruce arched top, solid wood back and sides, and mahogany neck. Other attributes include deluxe gold tuners and an Indian rosewood fret board complete with mother of pearl position marks. Electronics include a blend fader, allowing for a mix of acoustic and electric pickups.
Retail value: $989
Date Awarded: March 15, 2008
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Crafter USA
Prize: Crafter TA070/LAM Triple
Description: Crafted from a solid Englemann spruce top and mahogany back and sides. Traditional-style enthusiasts will enjoy its gorgeous light amber satin finish, herringbone soundhole and body inlay, and vintage-look oval tuners.
Retail value: $749
Date Awarded: March 15, 2008
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Crafter USA
Prize: Crafter GLXE-3000 SK Grand Auditorium Cutaway Guitar
Description: Features a solid spruce top, solid Indonesian rosewood back and sides inlaid with abalone position marks. The new Crafter scalloped T-Brace allows for a powerful attack and generous projection. Electronics include an L.R. Baggs Element pickup.
Retail value: $1,699
Date Awarded: March 15, 2008
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Crafter USA
Prize: Crafter TRV 23/N Travel Guitar
Description: Features a solid sitka spruce top and mahogany back and sides, rosewood fret board, and abalone soundhole inlay. The short 22 3/4-inch scale and 1 11/16-inch nut width make this the ideal travel instrument.
Retail value: $439
Date Awarded: March 15, 2008
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C.F. Martin & Co.
Prize: Special Edition OMJM John Mayer Martin guitar including hardshell case
Description: Features an Engelmann spruce top and East Indian rosewood back and sides. Scalloped bracing embraces the full timbre of this tonewood combination. Art deco-inspired monogram created by John Mayer is embroidered on the special vintage Geib-style hardshell case. Bears an interior label imprinted with the signatures of John Mayer and Martin chairman C.F. Martin IV.
Retail value: $3,999
Plus: 12 sets of Martin phosphor-bronze light-gauge Eric Clapton signature strings
Retail value: $116
Date awarded: January 15, 2007
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U.S. Music Corporation
Prize: The Washburn D56SW
Description: Features a classic combination of a solid Sitka spruce top and solid rosewood back and sides with a gorgeous dark grain that produces a warm, full tone that projects making it perfect for ensemble and solo playing.
Retail value: $1,399
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U.S. Music Corporation
Prize: The Parker P8EN
Description: Features a solid cedar top, rosewood binding, solid flame maple back and flame maple sides. It has a mahogany neck with ebony microdot inlaid fingerboard and bridge. Electronics are a Fishman hum cancelling pickup combined with their Acoustic Matrix undersaddle pickup. 1/4' and XLR outputs are provided.
Retail value: $1,999
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Parkwood Guitars
Prize: PW360M
Description: Features a selected solid Sitka spruce top with solid mahogany back and sides, Fishman Stereo Onboard Blender electronics with full EQ and onboard chromatic tuner, dual adjustable truss rod, Grover tuners, and a synthetic bone compensated saddle and nut. In short, the perfect guitar for the working musician or inspired player. A deluxe padded gig bag and a lifetime warranty are also included.
Retail value: $1,250
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Walden Guitars
Prize: Walden G1070CEQ Acoustic
Description: Grand auditorium shape, solid western red cedar top, African mahogany back and sides, solid rosewood fingerboard, 2-way adjustable truss rod, carbon graphite rails, maple and wood binding, maple and mahogany rosette, gold tuners with tortoise buttons, satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish.
Retail value: $1049.99
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Walden Guitars
Prize: Walden D710 Dreadnought Acoustic
Description: Solid Englemann spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck, solid rosewood fingerboard, Walden rosewood bridge, abalone rosette, gold tuners with tortoise buttons, satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish.
Retail value: $349.99
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Walden Guitars
Prize: Walden G570 Acoustic
Description: Grand Auditorium shape, solid western red cedar rop, sapele mahogany back and sides, mahogany neck, solid rosewood fingerboard, 2-way adjustable truss rod, die-cast chrome tuners, Walden rosewood bridge, pearl logo, satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish.
Retail value: $349.99
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Parkwood Guitars
Prize: PW370M
Description: Features sa solid Sitka spruce top with solid mahogany back and sides, and a mahogany neck with bound rosewood fretboard. The thinner body depth and deeper cutaway make it an ideal instrument for stage use, but it is equally at home in the studio or in the bedroom. It features the Fishman S.O.B. preamp and electronics with full EQ and onboard tuner. A deluxe padded gig bag and a lifetime warranty are also included.
Retail value: $1,250
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