August Sweetwater Giveaway: Wechter Grand Auditorium Elite Acoustic Guitar


Neal Walter
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Wechter Grand Auditorium Elite Acoustic Guitar with Hardshell Case

$899.00 MSRP


$679.97 sale price at Sweetwater.com



The August Sweetwater giveaway is finger-pickinā€™ good!

The Wechter Grand Auditorium Elite acoustic guitar features a spruce top and rosewood fingerboard with a rosewood back and sides. It has a nice cutaway design for easy access to the higher frets and its big body gets a full, rich sound.

This axe has a built-in Fishman Sonicore Pickup with volume control, bass, mid and treble control. There is also a brilliance control for additional tone shaping, a phase switch, a notch filter for feedback control, an onboard tuner (really cool!), flip open access for 9 volt battery and dual output jacks ā€“ Ā¼ā€ plus XLR.

This guitar has been personally certified by Abraham Wechter who has been designing and building guitars for over 30 years. He was a model-maker and designer for Gibson guitars and has made guitars for John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, B.B. King, and Steve Howe to name a few and has earned a reputation as one of the worldā€™s finest guitar designers.

This guitar comes well protected in a beautiful hardshell case with a nice crushed velvet style velour lining.

Abeā€™s expertise and care really show on this guitar, it sounds rich and full
And is a pleasure to play. Now Iā€™m gonna go write a song with it before it finds a new owner. :)

This one can be yours courtesy of our friends at Sweetwater for subscribing to our monthly newsletter and reading the product review for the month. Sweetwater sponsors this giveaway and they are always a real pleasure to deal with. They give free shipping on all orders (even strings!) and have an outstanding staff of real musicians who can help you make the right purchase the first time.

Sweetwater provides the gear, we review it for the Guitar Tricks Newsletter, and we give it away to one lucky Guitar Tricks member. Donā€™t forget to post a reply in this thread to qualify to win, good luck!


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08/06/2009 10:40 pm
August Sweetwater Gear Review Giveaway ā€“ Wechter Grand Auditorium Elite

The August contest is again sponsored by our good friends at Sweetwater.com.



The unique Sweetwater guitar gallery has actual photos of every guitar in stock. You can browse their huge selection and find guitars you never knew you needed

We are going to give the Wechter away to a lucky newsletter reader on August 21st.

To register to win, just reply to this thread!

Please read the contest rules here:

http://www.guitartricks.com/giveaway.php

In order to win this prize, you must "enter" the contest by posting on this thread by midnight of August 20th, 2009.
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08/06/2009 10:41 pm
Special Message for Non-US Members

We deeply regret that we cannot ship contest prizes outside the U.S.

Customs, tariffs, and shipping prevent merchandise from being shipped reasonably between countries.

That is the reason why U.S. music stores like www.sweetwater.com cannot sell to musicians in other countries, even as close as Canada.

We originally intended this contest to be run by Ren in the U.K. but we found that just shipping him the gear was so problematic that it would cost more than the contest itself.

Please accept our apologies for making this a U.S. only contest.
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08/06/2009 11:01 pm
This Wechter Grand Auditorium Elite Acoustic Guitar is more than I could ever ask for in a guitar. I have more than plenty acoustic and electric guitars, but there is always room for one more guitar. Maybe I would just give it away too. It sounds great and has nice features. I couldn't afford to buy one. Then again, it doesn't cost to look and listen to a great guitar.
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08/06/2009 11:58 pm
wow this would be great to own i hope i win it.
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08/07/2009 12:00 am
That is one sweet sounding guitar! And has a very well thought out design. So enter me in the giveaway, please!
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08/07/2009 12:01 am
Awesome, I'd love to win that!
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08/07/2009 12:17 am
Awesome guitar, I have a Dean Playmate acoustic and I would love to have a Wechter guitar. Enter me please.
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08/07/2009 12:23 am
I must have it.
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08/07/2009 12:33 am
I really like the sound of this and an upgrade to an electric acoustic would be great. Hope whoever wins it, enjoys it.
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08/07/2009 12:39 am
OH WOW...thats a beautiful guitar! I would love to get my fingers all over it!
Thanks for entering me!
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08/07/2009 12:46 am
I've been wanting an acoustic...
Consider me entered.
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08/07/2009 12:54 am
It would make it sound sooooo goooood!
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08/07/2009 12:58 am
I would definitely welcome this to my humble collection.
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08/07/2009 1:03 am
I'd love to win that. Sign me up please.

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08/07/2009 1:08 am
If I win I promise to learn to spell akuestick
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08/07/2009 1:09 am
very nice! gotta love that case!
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08/07/2009 1:23 am
What a sweet guitar:)
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08/07/2009 1:33 am
Sign me up! That looks great!
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08/07/2009 1:34 am
Of course, I'm in
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