Gretsch G5700 Lap Steel Tobacco
Product information "Gretsch G5700 Lap Steel Tobacco"
Best Lap steel guitar on the market!
The G5700 is an absolute first class instrument for this price range Whoever wants groovy Blues or Country sonorous sound, can get it on this guitar. It gives the game a completely new impetus, just try it out! With its solid mahogany body this solidbody generates an absolutely rich, clear sound. The set-in mahogany neck has a maple fingerboard with 27 frets. The fingerboard inlays set striking accents in circular, triangular, square and diamond shapes. A chrome-single-coil pickup with volume and tone controls gives this tobacco sunburst beauty a clean, warm sound.
- Body Material: Mahogany
- Body Shape: others
- Bridge / Tremolo: Fixed bridge
- Color/ Finish: Tobacco Sunburst
- Colour: Sunburst
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Custom shop: no
- Fretboard: Maple
- Fretboard Inlays: Circle, Triangle, Square and Diamond
- Frets: 27
- Hardware: Chrome
- Neck: Mahogany
- Neck construction: Set in neck
- Pickup Configuration: S (1x Single Coil)
- Pickup type: passive
- Scale: 22" (559 - 583 mm)
- Scale Length: 22,5" (572 mm)
- Signature Model: no
- Strings: 6 string
- Technology: Solid Body
Since its founding in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, Gretsch has delivered musical instruments of the highest quality with masterful craftsmanship — instruments that have been both influential to and cherished by some of the music industry’s most respected artists, including Chet Atkins, Eddie Cochran, Billy Duffy, Bono, Duane Eddy, George Harrison, Brian Setzer, Stephen Stills and Malcolm Young.
Twenty-seven-year-old Friedrich Gretsch, a German immigrant, began the company’s career by making banjos, drums and tambourines. Only 12 years later Friedrich passed away and left the young business to his then 15‑year‑old son Fred. Far from a typical teenager, he built the company into one of America’s leading importers and manufacturers of musical instruments. Knowing that the key to growth was listening to the public — and the public wanted guitars — Gretsch began producing the sought‑after six‑string instruments.
Initially, from 1926, these took the form of acoustic archtops for the rapidly growing popularity of jazz and a handful of flattops for the ever‑popular country and western sounds in the USA. In 1935 Gretsch launched the legendary Broadkaster drum series, which remained successful into the 1950s. Gretsch’s contribution to the rise of electric amplification came in 1939 with the first Electromatic®, a hollow‑body design that, in contemporary form, remains in the range to this day.
In 1942 Fred Gretsch Senior, after 50 years of successful business, handed the company to his son Fred Gretsch Junior. Because production was interrupted during the turmoil of the Second World War, Junior left the business to his brother Bill and joined the Navy. Tragically Bill died in 1948, like his grandfather at a young age, so the now‑inactive naval officer Fred resumed the helm of the family firm.
Since 1953 the company has also cultivated its expertise in solid‑body guitars, which met the ever‑louder concerts with greatly reduced susceptibility to feedback. The semi‑acoustic line has since been expanded to include guitars with centre‑block construction, combining the tonal character of a hollow‑body guitar with the practical aspects of a solid‑body.
After George Harrison’s appearance with the Beatles and his Country Gentleman on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Gretsch became firmly established among the iconic guitar makers — a status reflected in 1965 by the highest production volume in the company’s history.
In 1967, at the peak of its success, Fred Gretsch Jr. decided to retire and sold the company to the Baldwin Piano Company, which took over operations — unfortunately with only moderate success. Fortunately Dinah Gretsch joined the company in 1979 and helped prepare the path for a repurchase that her husband Fred W. Gretsch, the great‑grandson of the founder, completed 17 years after the sale. Together the couple restored the company to its former glory, where it seems to remain today.
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Muy buena relación calidad precio y buen sonido.
Dies ist meine erste Lapsteel. Habe also keinen Vergleich zu anderen baugleichen Gitarren. Verarbeitung, Bespielbarkeit und Sound sind jedoch super. Die stylische Chromabdeckung habe ich allerdings abgeschraubt. Die störte mich beim Spielen. Nun zu den kleinen Mängeln: 1. Die Klinkenbuchse ist ein Witz. Trotz Zurückbiegen der Kontakte flutscht das Kabel bei einem winzigsten Zug raus. Muss also unbedingt gegen eine hochwertige Buchse ausgetauscht werden. 2. Die Saiten werden durch den Body geführt. Auf der Rückseite sind Hülsen vorhanden, auf der Vorderseite nicht. Hier schneiden sich die Saiten gnadenlos ins Holz. Warum Gretsch an dieser Stelle unnötig spart, ist mir ein Rätsel. Hier müssen zwingend nachträglich Hülsen eingesetzt werden. Preis/Leistung finde ich insgesamt aber trotzdem top.
