Cort Essence Series Grand Auditorium Acoustic/Electric 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.

• Top Material Torrefied Solid Sitka Spruce
• Back & Sides Material Mahogany
• Body Shape Grand Auditorium
• Cutaway Style Venetian
• Construction Dovetail Neck Joint
• Bracing Pattern Advanced Scalloped X-Bracing
• Scale Length 25.5″ (648mm)
• Electronics Fishman® Presys VT
• Pickups Fishman® S-core
• Binding Herringbone
• Sound Hole 95mm
• Rosette Herringbone
• Bridge Material Rosewood
• Bridge Pin Material Ivory with Black Dot
• Nut & Saddle Genuine Bone
• Nut Width 1 3/4″ (45mm)
• Neck Material Mahogany
• Neck Shape C Shape
• Neck Thickness 1st Fret: 21.5mm / 8th Fret: 22.0mm
• Neck Heel Shape Triangle Heel Shape
• Truss Rod Dual Acting / 4mm Wrench
• Fingerboard Material Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius 15.75” (R400)
• Number of Frets 20 Frets
• Inlay Dot
• Head Shape Cort Basic
• Tuning Machines Vintage Open Gear
• Strings Elixir® Phosphor Bronze Nanoweb Light 12-53
• Special Torrefied Spruce Bracing