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1976 Gretsch Country Gentlemen
hollow-bodied electric guitar


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Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman description

1971 Country Gent | 1976 Country Gent

1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman 1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman 1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman 1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman
1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman 1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman 1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman

Strings suitable for this guitar

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(D'Addario Electric Guitar Strings Regular Light / Soldered Twists)

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D'Addario EJ22 (D'Addario Electric Guitar Strings Jazz Medium)

D'Addario ECG24 (D'Addario Chrome Flat Wound Electric Guitar Strings Jazz Light)

D'Addario EXL110W Nickel Regular Light Wound 3rd (D'Addario Electric Regular Light / Wound 3rd)

D'Addario XLS590 (D'Addario Stainless Steel Electric Guitar Strings Jazz Light)

1976 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman 7670

1971 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman
Body 17" maple hollowbody double cutaway electric archtop 1 7/8" width body finished in Mahogany Grain
Neck Maple, with a 22 fret ebony fingerboard. Bound, with thumbprint "Neoclassic" fingerboard inlays. Zero fret and bone nut.
Scale 24 1/4"
Hardware V-cutout Bigsby B-6 tailpiece, Grover tuners
Pickups 2 70s FilterTron pickups
The Chet Atkins Country Gentleman saw a lot of changes over the course of it's production, though this is a typical mid seventies guitar.

The pickups are 70s Filter'Trons, neck and bridge. It has real f-holes. Compare this guitar to earlier versions with painted f-holes(eg 1971 Country Gent), an adjustamatic bridge and V-cutout Bigsby B-6 tailpiece. All hardware is gold-plated. This guitar has no muffler (mute).

1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman 1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman 1976 Chet Atkins Gretsch Country Gentleman

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