The Kepma GA1-120 all-solid grand auditorium is the ultimate stage acoustic for tone and playability. It features an all-solid construction with a AAA+ Alaskan Sitka Spruce Top and solid Indian Rosewood back and sides. However, what makes the GA1 incredibly toneful is the combination of tonewoods and a re-engineered top bracing system that provides stability while enhancing the projection of the instrument. The GA1-120 has a slightly different tone vibe that’s derived from the meticulous working of the solid rosewood back and sides — a feat that’s not simple. Rosewood is an incredibly delicate tonewood to work with in solid form as it is prone to premature cracking, splitting and deformation in “guitar” thicknesses. However, the Kepma Wood Process (see second video on the right) ensures that the finished product is perfect.

This guitar comes alive in your hands and you feel its character throughout your entire body as you play it. It’s bright where it needs to be, and gives you an amazingly detailed low end and slightly darker undertones you won’t find in our other (or anybody else’s for that matter) guitars. Articulation is extremely important and the GA-120 delivers with amazing precision and clarity - all the way up the neck. It projects with perfect balance — something every player wants but few guitars deliver. The GA1-120 does.

Every GA1-120 has been meticulously crafted with the highest degree of precision to yield one of the finest playing guitars in the world. In addition, every GA1-120 is set up using the Plek™ Fretboard dress, fret leveling & nut-slot cutting system for precise string fitting, and every guitar is settled in the vibration room for 14 days (that’s 336 hours), the “playing equivalent” of just over 1 year. You could say that all of the Kepma Elite Series Guitars are “well adjusted” with no additional tweaking necessary. Every Kepma GA1-120 — Perfect. Every Time.

Below are the specs on the GA1-120… they’re available without a pickup system or with the Patented Kepma AcoustiFex® Pickup, preamp and FX system, and now available in 3 finish options: Natural, Antique Burst & Red Burst.

Specifications:

• Body Style: Grand Auditorium, venetian cutaway

• Scale Length: 647.25mm/25.48"

• Top: AAA Solid North America Sitka Spruce

• Back/Sides: Solid Indian Rosewood

• Neck: Pressure-tested African Mahogany

• Neck Reinforcement: Dual Carbon Fiber rods

• Neck Thickness: 21mm-22mm (1st Fret-9th Fret)

• Neck Width: 43mm/1.7"

• Neck Finish: Smooth Satin

• Truss Rod: 440mm Bidirectional adjustable steel

• Fretboard: African Ebony 400mm radius / 457mm*57mm

• Sound hole Rosette: New Zealand Abalone

• Number of Frets: 20

• Saddle: Tusq Synthetic Bone

• Nut: Tusq Synthetic Bone

• Bridge: African Ebony

• Fretboard Inlay: New Zealand Abalone flower shell inlay

• Binding: Figured Maple

• Finish: High gloss

• Bridge Pins: African Ebony

• Pickguard: Transparent

• Strings: Elixir Acoustic Phosphor Bronze with Nanoweb Coating (0.012-0.053)

• Tuning Machines: Kepma sealed die-cast gold 18:1

• Optional Electronics:

  • Kepma AcoustiFex™ Pickup, preamp & FX Systerm

• Case: Kepma TKL Deluxe ABS Hardshell