Cort Guitars Essence Series Grand Auditorium Acoustic Guitar, Black Top Semi Gloss

The Essence Series offers a pure acoustic guitar experience. By focusing on core elements, we’ve crafted a guitar that delivers exceptional sound and playability at an affordable price. The solid torrefied Sitka spruce top produces a rich, warm tone, perfectly balanced by mahogany back and sides. The intricate herringbone rosette and purfling add visual appeal, while the Fishman preamp system ensures your sound remains clear and vibrant, even on stage. The Essence Series offers the perfect blend of value and performance to suit your style.

Using a special process called ATV (Aged To Vintage), we treat the solid Sitka spruce top and bracing to achieve the big, open tone of a decades-old, highly sought-after acoustic guitar. This torrefaction process delivers that amazing tone right out of the box, making the guitar more stable and resonant over time.

With a body depth of 4 5/8″ (117mm), an upper bout width of 11 1/2″ (292mm), and a lower bout width of 16″ (405mm), the Grand Auditorium body size sits perfectly between the larger Dreadnought and the smaller Grand Concert. This makes the Auditorium body type ideal for both strumming/flatpicking and fingerstyle playing, suiting the versatile acoustic player who prefers one guitar to cover a variety of sounds and playing styles.

Spruce offers an ideal balance of strength and flexibility, making it the most popular choice for acoustic guitar tops. Bright yet natural, with a strong and warm midrange, the beloved mahogany wood has been a standard for the back and sides of premium acoustics for many decades.

GENERAL

Series: N/A
Orientation: Right-Hand
Body Shape: Grand Auditorium
Cutaway: Venetian
Country Of Origin: N/A

BODY

Top: Torrefied Solid Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides: Mahogany
Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint
Bracing: Advanced Scalloped X-Bracing
Special Bracing: Torrefied Spruce Bracing
Binding: Herringbone
Soundhole Diameter: 95 mm
Rosette: Herringbone
Bridge: Rosewood
Bridge Pins: Ivory with Black Dot
Top Finish: N/A
Back & Sides Finish: N/A
Pickguard: N/A

NECK

Neck Material: Mahogany
Neck Shape: C Shape
Neck Thickness: 21.5 mm (1st Fret), 22.0 mm (8th Fret)
Neck Heel: Triangle Heel Shape
Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
Nut Width: 1 3/4" (45 mm)
Nut Material: Genuine Bone
Saddle Material: Genuine Bone
Truss Rod: Dual-Acting (4 mm Wrench)
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius: 15.75" (400 mm)
Number of Frets: 20
Position Inlays: Dot
Headstock Shape: Cort Basic

HARDWARE

Tuning Machines: Vintage Open Gear
Bridge: Rosewood
Bridge Pins: Ivory with Black Dot

ELECTRONICS

Electronics: Fishman® Presys VT
Pickup: Fishman® S-Core

MEASUREMENTS

Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
Nut Width: 1 3/4" (45 mm)

ACCESSORIES

Strings: Elixir® Phosphor Bronze Nanoweb Light 12–53