Washburn designed the Festival series to address the needs of the performing musician and it has succeeded for over 25 years. The Festival series was the standard acoustic/electric guitar seen on MTV’s “Unplugged” series and has since become one of the best selling and most copied guitars on the market. A comfortable body teamed up with quality Barcus-Berry electronics, hardware, and fine woods allows the pristine, crystalline highs to blend perfectly with a full, well rounded low end.
KEY WASHBURN FEATURES:
COMFORTABLE MJ CUTAWAY BODY
The EA15's Mini-Jumbo body is easier to play for those that find the larger Dreadnought & Grand Auditorium shapes uncomfortable. The EA15 MJ is suited for smaller players, young learners, or musicians looking for the more focused and intimate voice of a small bodied guitar provides. Built with a cutaway, access to the upper frets is a breeze.
BARCUS-BERRY ELECTRONICS
Plug-in ready and pre-equipped with a pickup loaded with features such as an onboard tuner, EQ controls and feedback resistance, all from Barcus-Berry, developer the first ever piezo crystal transducer for musical instruments in 1963.
ICE TEA BURST GLOSS FINISH
The Ice Tea Burst is a warm, honey colored treatment gracing this Festival EA15. This color really brings out the natural beauty of its Figured Maple top.
SPECIFICATIONS
BODY & CONSTRUCTION
- Top Wood: Flame Maple
- Back Wood: Catalpa
- Sides: Catalpa
- Bracing: Quarter Sawn Scalloped Sitka Spruce bracing
- Rosette: Faux-Abalone
- Type: Acoustic Guitars
- Shape: Mini Jumbo
- Style: 6 String Acoustic Electric, Cutaway
NECK
- Neck Wood: Mahogany with 2 way-Truss Rod
- Fretboard: Engineered Wood
- Number Of Frets: 20 frets
- Inlays: dots
- Nut: Graphtech NuBone
- Nut Width: 1-11/16"
- Scale: 25-1/2"
ELECTRONICS
- Controls: Volume, built-in tuner, Bass/Mid/Treble, Notch/Presence
- Preamp System: Barcus-Berry EQ4T
HARDWARE
- Hardware: Chrome hardware
- Bridge: Engineered Wood
- Tuners: Chrome Diecast
OTHER
Color: Ice Tea Burst
Finish: Gloss
Strings: D'Addario EXP-16 light set phospher bronze