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The Breedlove Difference

Sound Better. Play Better. Play More.

At Breedlove, we design and build the world’s finest-sounding and visually stunning guitars in our state-of-the-art custom shop in Bend, Oregon. Using our exclusive Sound Optimization® process and driven by American ingenuity, research, and development, we design and hand craft cutting-edge, fully sustainable modern acoustic guitars that consistently set new benchmarks for tone and performance. Whether you’re selecting your first guitar or adding a unique piece to your custom collection, we have the right guitar for you along every step of your musical journey. Welcome to the Breedlove difference—let the experience begin.

Features and Benefits

The Organic Pro Collection

The Breedlove Organic Pro Collection stands as the threshold where professional, all-solid tonewood excellence meets accessibility. Offering outstanding pro-level guitars meticulously designed and crafted for discerning players in search of uncompromising sound quality at approachable prices. Engineered to meet the demands of serious musicians, these instruments embody Breedlove’s unwavering commitment to sustainability, superior craftsmanship and exceptional tonal performance.

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Cascade Bracing

Bench-Built Sound Born in the Custom Shop

Dependable, Convenient and Reliable Electronics

Side-mounted Fishman Flex Plus-T electronics with volume, treble, bass, and phase controls, plus an onboard tuner.

All-Solid Tonewoods

All-solid, fully sustainable tonewoods just sound better. Learn why.

Professional, Sustainable Tonewood Sound for Everyone

Fully-sustainable guitars that working musicians and aspiring players can actually afford.

Discover Your Sound

Find Your New Favorite Guitar

Breedlove has the right guitar for you, for your unique groove, whether you’re a basher or a picker; whether it’s your first instrument or your new favorite; whether you want to rock or relax. And Breedlove makes it easy to discover your individual sound and mode, regardless if your main concern is body shape and comfort, play style, sustainability, tonewood choice or, quite simply, price. Begin your journey here.

Body Shape

Breedlove Guitars stands at the forefront of innovation with its revolutionary guitar body shapes, redefining the acoustic guitar landscape. From the versatile and comfortable Concert shape to the bold and resonant Concerto and the intimate yet powerful Concertina and Companion, each body shape is meticulously crafted to offer distinct tonal profiles and ergonomic advantages. Breedlove’s dedication to innovation in body design not only enhances the instruments’ sonic capabilities, but also ensures a comfortable playing experience, empowering musicians to explore new realms of sound and creativity. These groundbreaking body shapes stand as a testament to Breedlove’s commitment to reimagining acoustic guitars for the modern musician, offering a fusion of exceptional sound, comfort, and playability.

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Play Style

The way you play says a lot about you. And your guitar should help you express that. If you’ve been making music for years, you may have already sorted out what works for you. Perhaps it turns out you’re a chameleon, like Joni Mitchell, using a variety of open tunings to channel your muse, and you’ve settled on a versatile Solo Concert CE because you love the way the red cedar top responds to your fingerpicking, but also thrill to the way the ovangkol back and sides support your strumming—and, oh, the lush way that Side Monitor Soundhole just washes you in sound. Breedlove has classified its instruments into three broad categories of play—Heavy, Versatile and Light. These are not firm designations, but simply a pathway to finding what fits you and your preferred method of expression. If you like to bang out big chords on a loud guitar, try an all-solid Organic Collection Performer Concerto CE. If you favor a gentler approach, softly thrumming with a thin pick or opting for the clean, simple sound of skin on string, look into a Legacy Concert CE or a diminutive Pursuit Companion CE. Enjoy exploring the many options here!

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Sustainability

With an unwavering dedication to responsible practices, Breedlove meticulously sources tonewoods from responsibly managed forests and implements innovative approaches to minimize their ecological footprint. Through partnerships and initiatives supporting reforestation and conservation efforts, the brand not only ensures the ethical sourcing of tonewoods but also actively contributes to the preservation of natural ecosystems. By prioritizing environmental responsibility, Breedlove Guitars remains at the forefront of the industry, showcasing a harmonious fusion of exquisite craftsmanship and ecological mindfulness in crafting musical instruments that resonate not only with exceptional sound but also with ethical integrity.

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Tonewoods

Are you a flatpicker who can rip through “Blackberry Blossom” or “Jerusalem Ridge” with equal ease? Then you’re probably looking for the classic, dynamic Adirondack spruce/East Indian rosewood combination of the Premier Concerto CE—it’s a bluegrass machine! Maybe you are at the other end of the spectrum, a mellow fingerstylist with a sweet spot for the Beatles’ “Blackbird,” in which case, the redwood-topped Premier Concertina CE would answer your call with a responsive tone and softer attack. A songwriter, maybe, inspired by the rootsy genius of both Hank Williams and Brandi Carlisle? You might want to hunker down with an all-solid, sustainably sourced Organic Collection Wildwood Concert Satin CE, just to get lost in the inspirational warmth and dry midrange of African mahogany, which can carry you away to your next perfect ballad. Breedlove offers a range of exotic and native tonewoods, each targeted to bring out the best in your individual style of play, whether a shy bedroom picker or a bold stage star. The world of tonewoods can be intimidating, but we’re happy to be your guide. These descriptions can help you find what is right for you. Maybe you’re a koa or a cocobolo after all!

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The Sound Optimization® Process

Building a better sounding guitar

Breedlove Guitars’ meticulous process of Sound Optimization and hand tuning stands as a hallmark of their commitment to delivering exceptional instruments to musicians. Their detailed approach involves fine-tuning each Custom Shop guitar individually, delicately adjusting various components such as bracing, tonewood thickness, and saddle positioning to achieve an optimal balance of tone, resonance, and playability. This meticulous hand-tuning process ensures that every instrument reaches its full sonic potential, offering players a guitar that not only sounds exceptional but also feels incredibly responsive and easy to play. The benefit to the guitar player is profound – each Custom Shop Breedlove guitar, meticulously optimized through this process, offers a rich, articulate tone with enhanced projection, greater sustain, and a nuanced dynamic range. Additionally, the optimized playability allows for effortless fretting and a comfortable playing experience, empowering musicians to freely express their musicality and creativity. While not individually hand-tuned, entry level guitars benefit from Breedlove’s sound research by way of Cascade Bracing, uniquely profiled and designed bracing carefully developed for each revolutionary body shape.

Sound Optimization® & Hand Voicing

Why do Breedlove guitars sound so good? It’s simple, Breedlove guitars—from Legacy to Discovery—are made with care, with the goal of allowing you to play better, sound better and play more. But it’s also complex, with art, inspiration, craft and science merging together in service of tone. Made in Bend models feature Sound Optimization® and are hand voiced, with experienced luthiers meticulously tapping, listening and shaving away tiny curls of exquisite tonewood as they target specific, measurable frequencies that will make each unique, individual instrument sound its very best. Various wood species are carefully milled, weighed and considered, with backs and tops tuned to each other to create light, responsive guitars with superior tone and sustain. When you play a Breedlove Premier, or sit down with an Oregon, it answers your lightest touch and its notes sing for an eternity, because a Breedlove builder has made sure it will inspire you every time you open the case.

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Designing Revolutionary Body Shapes

In 1990, Breedlove Guitars made its mark with the distinctive Concert body shape. Ergonomic, focused and strikingly balanced, it established Breedlove as an innovator with an eye on the future and an ear to the past—melding the best traditional elements of superior acoustic sound with a modern viewpoint about comfort, playability and construction. 30 years later, the Concert has become a classic. It is a trusted, versatile platform for players of every style, with an instantly recognizable voice and a sleek, enchanting profile. Breedlove now offers guitars in four revolutionary body shapes, each linked to and informed by the Concert, which remains the most popular and influential of all. The Concerto, the largest at 16” wide, updates the dreadnought with similar volume and power, but a more complex tonal palette, perfect for driving a band or backing a charismatic singer. The Concertina, a secret weapon of sorts, pares down the Concert, landing right in a fingerpicker’s lap with 12 frets to the body and a short scale that makes for easy, expressive bends. The newly introduced Companion puts all that Concert goodness—including careful research and amazing sound—into a compact travel guitar that plays like its full-sized cousins.

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Utilizing & Sustaining Exotic Tonewoods

Traditionally, guitars have been made from a variety of exotic tonewoods, often bearing enchanting names reflective of their tropical origins—species like cocobolo, ziricote, ovangkol and koa. More familiar timbers like rosewood, redwood, cedar, spruce and mahogany have an even more hallowed place in the annals of lutherie. Breedlove, which pioneered the use of sonically unique, visually striking native Oregon myrtlewood, employs all of these materials, with a particular eye towards sustainability and the health of the wildlife and humanity engaged in our world’s great forests. No clear-cut woods are used in Breedlove models. Breedlove has made this commitment without making any sacrifice in sound quality, build quality or beauty—and it is a commitment. Owner Tom Bedell and his team have traveled to 15 countries to ensure the compliance of suppliers, to monitor best practices and to see the forest with their own eyes. You will sound better and sleep better with a Breedlove. We have but one world, let’s keep it alive. Ask where your guitar comes from.

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Crafting Your Individual Play Style & Sound

The way you play says a lot about you. And your guitar should help you express that. If you’ve been making music for years, you may have already sorted out what works for you. Perhaps it turns out you’re a chameleon, like Joni Mitchell, using a variety of open tunings to channel your muse, and you’ve settled on a versatile Solo Concert CE because you love the way the red cedar top responds to your fingerpicking, but also thrill to the way the ovangkol back and sides support your strumming—and, oh, the lush way that Side Monitor Soundhole just washes you in sound. Breedlove has classified its instruments into three broad categories of play—Heavy, Versatile and Light. These are not firm designations, but simply a pathway to finding what fits you and your preferred method of expression. If you like to bang out big chords on a loud guitar, try an all-solid Organic Collection Performer Concerto CE. If you favor a gentler approach, softly thrumming with a thin pick or opting for the clean, simple sound of skin on string, look into a Legacy Concert CE or a diminutive Pursuit Companion CE. Enjoy exploring the many options here!

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