Acoustic Guitars for Under $500

By: Staff

Recently we decided to check out a few acoustic guitars that are great deals at reasonable prices. When you’re looking for a guitar, especially for a young player, it’s always a smart idea to buy a brand name from a known source. So, we picked out guitars that can be had for under $500 from Taylor, Epiphone, Takamine, Martin and Breedlove. Check these fine low-priced acoustics out for the future celebrity musician in your family.

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Taylor GS Mini ($499.00)

The GS Mini truly sounds like a full-size guitar, and it’s not just the volume you’ll notice when you strum your 1st chord, but also the depth and richness of tone. The Mini acoustic has a deeper body, a bigger top, and a longer scale than a Baby Taylor. The tone is also enhanced by a full-sized 4″-diameter soundhole and a braceless arched back. The Mini also has the look of a “real” guitar with an inlaid rosette, pickguard, and inlaid purfling lines in the top. Its ultra-portable size makes it a great travel guitar. You can even put it in the overhead compartment of a plane. The Mini also makes an inspiring student guitar for smaller-sized musicians. Comes with a GS Mini hard bag.

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Epiphone EJ-200 ($399.00)

Distinctively different in design, materials, and finishing details, the Epiphone EJ-200 Acoustic Guitar offers an alternative look and an attractive sound and price. The top is select spruce and the jumbo body is maple for subtle alteration of tonal colorations. Superbly crafted, with bound rosewood fretboard, maple neck, and striking inlaid mustache bridge.

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Takamine G Series G406S New Yorker ($399.00)

The G406S New Yorker Acoustic Guitar offers the smallest body profile Takamine makes. The New Yorker has a traditional old-time guitar shape that produces an immediate, clear, full-bodied tone evoking old 78-rpm records of the ’40s.

The Takamine New Yorker guitar’s strumming voice is sharp and airy. When played finger-style it sings with sweetness and character that make you want to dig a little deeper into the roots of American music.

The Takamine G406S combines the craftsmanship and materials that have made traditionally styled guitars so desirable: a solid spruce top and a gorgeous 3-piece rosewood and quilted maple back, mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard. New Yorker guitar appointments include wood body binding and heelcap, an abalone rosette, and gold tuning keys.

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Martin X Series LXM Tenor ($449.00)

The Martin LXM Tenor acoustic guitar features a spruce patterned durable patented HPL (high pressure laminate) top and mahogany patterned HPL back and sides, gold and black herringbone rosette, mortise/tenon neck joint, and comes with a padded gig bag.

The Tenor guitar is a four-stringed musical instrument shaped like an acoustic guitar, but is smaller and has a 23″ scale length. It is typically tuned in “fifths” (usually CGDA). 4-stringed tenor guitars are extremely fun to play, but often costly and hard to find in today’s marketplace. The LXM Tenor provides extremely brilliant and projective tone at a very affordable price.

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Breedlove Passport N200/CMP ($202.44)

The Breedlove Passport N200/CMP is inspired by the Custom Shop N20 shape and voice. With 14 Frets to body, the N200 is highly versatile, fast playing, comfortable and great for beginners and advanced steel string players to cross their technique over to the world of nylon tone. This is Breedlove’s top-selling shape for over 20 years. The N200/CMP is crafted with a solid red cedar top and laminated maple back & sides with a rich dark stain finished in silky satin. Includes gig bag.

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