LAG Guitars Tramontane 70 T70D Natural Acoustic Guitar
Discontinued, this product can no longer be ordered.
Product no: 9000-0067-5653 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.
General
The Lag Guitars Tramontane T70D is an acoustic guitar in the popular dreadnought size. What's remarkable for an instrument with such a modest price tag is that the model has a genuine, solid Engelmann spruce top. This tone wood is known for shaping a clearly present mid-range and intimately adds its qualities to the fully-grown foundation sound of the guitar. Since the back and sides and are made of sapele, the end result is an immensely flexible sound that'll more than satisfy both finger-pickers and rhythm guitarists.
The Tramontane T70D: Eye for Detail
As always, it's the little things that make all the difference. To boost its sleek looks, the Tramontane T70D sports a maple logo inlay at the headstock and comes fitted with stable machine heads with a 15:1 ratio. These, as well as the bridge and string nut, have a black satin finish that contrasts beautifully with the rest of the instrument, making sure you won't go unnoticed even when you're not playing your Tramontane.
Specifications
Product features
| Number of frets | 20 |
|---|---|
| Number of strings | 6 |
| Body construction | solid top |
| Cutaway | no |
| Sustainable product | not specified |
| Electro-acoustic | no |
| Acoustic guitar size | mid |
| Wood type (back) | sapele |
| Fretboard wood | brownwood |
| Wood type (soundboard) | spruce |
| Wood type (sides) | sapele |
| For playing style | plectrum-based styles |
| Includes cover | no |
| Includes case | no |
| Acoustic sound | rich and deep |
| Colour | wood/natural |
| Left-handed | no |
| Body type | dreadnought |
Weight and dimensions including packaging
| Weight (incl. packaging) | 2,9 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions (incl. packaging) | 112,5 x 49,0 x 14,5 cm |
Wrote the following about LAG Guitars Tramontane 70 T70D Natural Acoustic Guitar
The action is horrendously high, about 5mm at the 12th fret and it's pretty high at the nut end too, which does not make for easy or fast playing.
The strings are way too heavy for me, at normal pitch they need a lot of effort to play, and so I detuned it to D from E for now, in order to make the tension less and the strings more responsive.
The fret ends are pretty good, and guitar is beautifully made - I have no complaints at all regarding it - and the sound is delicious, but it's going to need some setting up to really make it properly playable, and if I was a newbie I would probably not know how to do that and, if this was my first guitar, I might be put off playing it.
Luckily, with 25 other guitars in my herd, I know what to do, and then - with much lighter strings and a lower action, it's going to be a delight.
It smells nice, with a proper 'woody' smell, I've honestly never noticed that with a guitar before.
The craftsmanship and design are delightful, faultless really, and, as the medieval trobadors of the region are a major factor in my life - I play a wide variety of medieval instruments - I chose the guitar especially for the Occitan origin of the Lag company, and also for the fact that the coat of arms of the C12th Count Raymond V of Toulouse - the Occitan Cross - decoration is nicely applied by the sound hole; Count Raymond V being a little bit of a hero of mine.
Truly it is a very lovely guitar, and I look forward to recording with it, but I was a wee bit shocked by the set up, and to be honest expected a bit better... but I can fix that.
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