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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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"
Hardware
Hardware - Chrome hardware
Bridge - Engineered Wood
Tuners - Chrome Diecast
Electronics
Controls - Volume, built-in tuner, Bass/Mid/Treble, Notch/Presence
Preamp System - Barcus-Berry EQ4T
Other
Color - Ice Tea Burst
Finish - Gloss