Oscar Schmidt OC11CE Classical Cutaway Guitar

The OC11CE acoustic electric classical guitar features quality materials and construction, with a built-in preamp and tuner. The comfortable body has a cutaway for easy access to the upper register notes, making it a fantastic stage and performance guitar. The Oscar Schmidt OC11CE is an impressive nylon string, classical guitar whose price understates its real value. Made with care and attention to detail, the OC11CE is a classical guitar you can be proud of, for its beauty and elegant appearance alone. The sound is another great surprise, is how the built in under-saddle pickup and preamp system let you connect to guitar amplifiers for expanding the sound, outreach, and capabilities of this splendid guitar.
	Traditional classical body style with cutaway Select spruce laminated top Sepele back and sides Decorative binding Rosewood fingerboard Rosewood bridge Hand-crafted quality		Mahogany neck Nickel silver frets Pearloid button tuners Gold hardware Built-in Preamp/Tuner Color: Natural

History and Tradition: The Oscar Schmidt Company was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911. By the early 1900s, the company had five factories in Europe and a factory on Ferry Street in Jersey City. The company prospered through the early 1920s. Oscar Schmidt instruments were sold in many rural parts of the country where no music stores existed. Salesmen distributed the products far and wide, making them available in general, small town furniture and dry goods stores. Country steel string, flat-top guitar pickers and blues musicians living in rural and mountain areas of the South and in Appalachia,frequently played Oscar Schmidt instruments because they were both inexpensive and available locally. But equally important, they were often chosen solely on merits of their superior tone and volume. Today, Oscar Schmidt guitars live on, delivering quality, value, and pleasure to countless musicians. Now they are proudly made in the Asia, under the careful oversight of Washburn Guitars.