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Based on a 40-inch cutaway classical body shape, the LE-C1 balances the resonant advantages of traditional classical guitars with the convenience of modern playing. Its core wood configuration also lays a solid foundation for high-quality tone.
The top is made of solid spruce, which acts as the “tone engine” of the classical guitar. Its natural growth grain delivers excellent acoustic conductivity—it responds quickly to string vibrations, giving high frequencies a bright and transparent texture. When performing delicate harmonics in classical pieces, the clarity is remarkable; mid frequencies are warm and full, imbuing the tone with expressiveness when playing lyrical melodies; low frequencies are rich and layered, providing solid sonic support for chord accompaniment. Whether for solo or ensemble performances, it can reproduce the elegant charm of classical music.
The back and sides are crafted from okoume wood, paired with a hollow design. This not only retains the wood’s inherent mellow acoustic properties but also further expands the guitar’s resonance space. Okoume has a moderate wood density, which helps enhance the tone’s projection, allowing the sound to travel farther in space while avoiding excessive muddiness, creating a tonal complement to the spruce top.
The neck is also made of okoume wood, which is lightweight yet highly flexible. It not only improves grip comfort but also has a stable wood structure that reduces the impact of environmental factors on the neck, indirectly ensuring tonal stability. The fingerboard is paired with rosewood, whose fine grain makes string pressing smoother, reducing noise interference and enabling purer tone transmission.
From wood selection to structural design, the LE-C1 precisely controls acoustic details, bringing classical music enthusiasts a tonal experience with rich layers and pure texture.
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The LE-C1 40-inch Cutaway Classical Guitar takes “okoume wood body with hollow back and sides (with arm rest)” as its core highlight. Paired with a solid spruce top, it builds a tone system that combines texture and expressiveness.
Okoume wood itself has a moderate density and comes with a mellow acoustic base—its uniform wood grain avoids excessive brightness during vibration transmission, making the tone more warm and natural, which perfectly complements the clarity of the spruce top. The hollow design further optimizes the guitar’s resonance space: when the strings vibrate, the hollow structure can extend the reflection path of sound waves inside the body, making the low frequencies richer and more elastic, the mid frequencies fuller, and the high-frequency harmonics more delicate. Especially when playing classical pieces, the layering of chords and the fluency of melodies can be presented more clearly.
More thoughtfully, the integrated arm rest on the back and sides: the curvature that fits the contour of the arm not only reduces fatigue during long playing sessions, but also indirectly stabilizes the guitar’s position. This prevents the impact of grip deviation on string vibration transmission, ensuring tonal stability in detail. Combined with the smooth string-pressing experience of the rosewood fingerboard, it further reduces noise interference, allowing the tonal advantages of the okoume hollow back and sides and the spruce top to be fully unleashed.
From wood properties to structural design, the okoume hollow back and sides of the LE-C1 not only lay a solid foundation for tone, but also balance playing practicality, bringing classical music enthusiasts a pure and layered auditory experience.
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The LE-C1 40-inch Cutaway Classical Guitar features carefully selected configurations for its neck, fingerboard, and frets. This not only ensures playing comfort but also enhances tone purity in details, creating acoustic synergy with the spruce top and okoume back and sides.
The neck is made of okoume wood, whose lightweight nature eliminates shoulder pressure when held, making long playing sessions effortless. Meanwhile, okoume boasts excellent flexibility, which resists the impact of temperature and humidity changes on the neck to maintain its stability — a factor directly related to the uniformity of string tension. This prevents tuning deviations caused by neck warping, allowing every vibration to transmit accurately and laying the foundation for stable tone.
The fingerboard is paired with classic rosewood, which has moderate density and fine grain. It offers a smooth touch for fingertips when pressing strings, reducing noise from string contact. Rosewood’s inherent acoustic properties also help optimize the tone: softening high frequencies, adding warmth to mid frequencies, and complementing the clarity of the spruce top and the richness of the okoume back and sides, resulting in a more balanced overall tonal layering.
The 2.4mm white brass round-edged frets and 21-fret design are even more thoughtful: the white brass material is wear-resistant and non-deformable, keeping the frets flat even with long-term use to ensure precise tuning when pressing strings. The rounded edges are polished smooth, preventing discomfort and maintaining stable string contact to improve playing fluency. The 21-fret span covers the common range of classical pieces, meeting advanced playing needs.
From material selection to detailed design, these components not only enhance the playing experience but also ensure purer tone transmission and more stable tuning, providing reliable playing support for classical music enthusiasts.
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Though small in size, the nut and bridge of the LE-C1 40-inch Cutaway Classical Guitar serve as “key hubs” for tone transmission thanks to their high-quality materials, creating acoustic synergy with the spruce top and okoume back and sides.
The nut is made of natural bone, featuring high density, moderate hardness, and tight grain. Compared to ordinary plastic nuts, bone transmits string vibrations more efficiently, minimizing vibration energy loss. This makes high frequencies brighter and harmonics clearer—for example, when playing fast scales in classical pieces, notes have a more distinct articulation. Meanwhile, bone offers excellent stability, being less affected by temperature and humidity changes. It maintains precise string action over the long term, preventing tuning deviations caused by nut deformation and ensuring stable intonation during play.
The bridge is crafted from classic rosewood, matching the fingerboard material. Rosewood has a warm texture and moderate elasticity; it not only acts as a “bridge” for transmitting string vibrations to the top but also optimizes tone through its inherent acoustic properties. It cushions vibration impact, making mid frequencies richer and low frequencies more elastic while avoiding harshness. Additionally, rosewood is wear-resistant and durable—even under long-term string tension, it rarely cracks, ensuring a stable vibration transmission path. This allows the clarity of the spruce top and the richness of the okoume back and sides to fully blend, delivering a well-balanced, layered overall tone.
From “initial transmission” to “efficient delivery,” these two components provide layered guarantees for tone purity and stability, offering classical music enthusiasts a more precise and textured playing experience.
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The TE-30C pickup equipped on the LE-C1 40-inch Cutaway Classical Guitar is not just a simple sound amplification component, but empowers its high-quality acoustic foundation (such as the spruce top and okoume hollow back and sides), allowing excellent tone to be showcased in more scenarios.
Its core advantage lies in high-fidelity acoustic reproduction — the TE-30C can accurately capture the details of string vibrations. It retains the bright high frequencies and harmonic texture of the spruce top, while not losing the rich mid frequencies from the rosewood bridge and the full low frequencies from the okoume back and sides, avoiding “tone coloration” during pickup. Even when amplified through a speaker, it can deliver a natural sound close to the original acoustic tone, meeting the requirements for tone purity in classical music.
For practical use scenarios, it has excellent anti-interference capabilities, reducing the intrusion of environmental noise (such as venue hum and external sound interference). During small-scale performances or recording, the sound output is cleaner and more stable, eliminating the need for frequent adjustment of noise reduction parameters. In terms of operation, it also caters to user needs: the adjustment knobs are simple and easy to understand, allowing beginners to quickly master the skills of fine-tuning volume and tone. No complex settings are required to adapt to the acoustic environments of different venues (such as classrooms and small concert halls).
For classical music enthusiasts, the TE-30C not only meets low-volume pickup needs during daily practice (without disturbing others) but also supports sound amplification for small-scale performances. It transforms the LE-C1 from a “practice guitar” into a “multi-functional performance guitar,” expanding its use scenarios while always preserving high-quality tone.
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Though they are tuning components, the fully enclosed chrome-plated tuning pegs of the LE-C1 40-inch Cutaway Classical Guitar, with their precise design and high-quality materials, serve as key elements in ensuring tuning stability and extending the instrument’s lifespan, working in synergy with configurations like the spruce top and TE-30C pickup.
Their core advantage lies in the fully enclosed structure — it tightly blocks impurities such as dust and moisture from entering the internal gears, preventing gear rust and jamming, and ensuring smooth tuning feel even after long-term use. Compared to open-style tuning pegs, their internal gears engage more closely, offering higher precision during tuning. A gentle turn of the knob allows precise control over string tension, which is especially suitable for the strict tuning requirements of classical guitars. Whether tuning for daily practice or quickly adjusting before a performance, it reduces the trouble of “tuning instability,” ensuring more stable intonation during play.
The chrome-plated material further enhances practicality: it not only gives the tuning pegs a metallic texture, complementing the guitar’s matte finish and wood binding for a more refined look, but also boasts excellent corrosion resistance. Even with long-term contact with finger sweat, it rarely oxidizes or fades. While maintaining a neat appearance, it extends the service life of the tuning pegs.
For players, these tuning pegs also lower the usage barrier — the knobs are of moderate size and have uniform turning resistance, allowing beginners to easily master tuning skills without worrying about disrupted practice efficiency due to awkward operation. Safeguarding tuning stability and durability in details, the LE-C1 delivers reliable performance in both daily practice and small-scale performances.
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