The Harley Benton Custom Line CLG-48CE acoustic offers great specs for the price

By Rob Laing
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A Grand Auditorium electro acoustic guitar with a wider 48mm nut for more room on the 'board

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Harley Benton's acoustic guitar (opens in new tab) range continues to expand with the new Grand Auditorium electro Custom Line CLG-48CE Wide NT.

The last word in the name refers to the 48mm width nut that some players may appreciate for the extra room it gives them across the fretboard.

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Harley Benton are describing this 643 mm (25.3") scale length cutaway model as a great all-rounder with "great projection, crisp highs, defined lows". Well we can't argue with that. 

There's a tried and true solid spruce top combined with a walnut back and sides. The mahogany neck has a pau ferro fingerboard. 

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And we're pleased to see a Fishman Sonicore coupled with the company's Presys II preamp system here – something we had good experiences with in the Cort Little CJ (opens in new tab)when we reviewed it. 

Harley Benton

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The Hi-Gloss Natural finish Harley Benton CLG-48CE Wide NT is available now for £225 / €248 at thomann.de (opens in new tab)

Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Guitars Editor, MusicRadar

I'm the Guitars Editor for MusicRadar, handling news, reviews, features, tuition, advice for the strings side of the site and everything in between. Before MusicRadar I worked on guitar magazines for 15 years, including Editor of Total Guitar. I've currently set aside any pipe dreams of getting anywhere with my own songs and I am enjoying playing covers in function bands.