Ibanez Concord Acoustic 12-String

The finish is transparent. It is a dreadnought. Bridge: string through body. Tuners: non-locking. Neck/scale: thin. Accessories: case, original still being used. Year made: mid 70's Japan, 20 fret, solid top, fine grained spruce. Body: maple, neck: ash

This Concord is fantastic to play and to listen to! It is "as new." I have owned it for 10 years. I bought it from a guy who purchased it to learn on. Big mistake, but my good! It does not have a pickup.

This guitar has never been touched and the action is still perfect. It is a 671-12, which means that it has a beautiful insert in the back.

I play this instrument regularly. Everything is solid. I use it for a local gig on a monthly basis.

No occasion for repairs.

I have been playing for more than 50 years. I have a wide variety of acoustical and electric gear. I love this instrument because it is totally unique. I have never seen another like it.

Bought this guitar in a shop in Idaho Falls, Idaho in 1976 for $150.00. It's a big jumbo with funky oriental-looking flowers on the pickguard and MOP inlays on a Gibson rip-off neck. Tuners and finish have held up very well. The only really funky part is the bridge, which is a pretty raggedy mustache style. The guitar is a red sunburst and my kids think it's the prettiest I own. I think it's a spruce top with maple laminate back and sides. It's tough as nails.

The thing rings like bell and is surpisingly loud. I like the nut-width but the saddle is held in by nuts, of all things. It sounds great save for some intonation problems on the B string on the second fret.

Set-up sucked and my attempt to raise the action in the early 80's only made it worse. I had it reset only a few years ago and it's as fast and easy to play as my better six-strings. There's some cold-checking a lacquer crack under the heel block at the top of the box. Some dings, but after years of being tossed around in a cardboard case and being used as a nightstand for cheap beer, it looks absolutely fantastic.

This is a great guitar and built like a brick milk house.

Huh? I bought it in Idaho when Ibanez quit making their Gibson knock-offs.

I've been playing since 1969 and I still pull this guitar out when I want to shake the rafters. It's like that old afghan, snagged but warm.

This is a large bodied (Jumbo/Dreadnought) 12 string guitar... no pick-up in the original, rather cheap machine heads and some radical warping along the bridge (it is forward and down), and the soundhole (it is warped). As far as I know, this is an early Seventies guitar. I bought it used for $250 in 1974 including a case that has long since turned into a mangled mass of duct tape. This guitar was my first real instrument and it has NEVER been babied by me. I have played it in the rain and dragged it through the mud. It has seen more parties than Keith Richards.

As I remember, the set up, at one time, was very sweet. It had it all, but years of abuse have given it a very ugly look...because of the warp around the soundhole, the latter is no longer round. Rather it has taken a shape oddly reminiscient of a torus with some definite wear along the down stroke of my strum. It has since gone through many repairs to correct the lifting of the bridge and the falling of the body (some braces had come unglued (or broken) and others were simply missing (do to some odd design)). I drilled an input through the tail block for a pick-up I installed and no longer use (preferring a Pro-Mag soundhole (which, again, due to the warping in that area, sits EXTREMELLY close to the strings, giving it a warm, sometimes muddy sound when plugged in)).

Here it is...The richest, the warmest, the fullest sound I have ever heard from a 12 string instrument. I play it tuned down 1.5 tones (so I play with a Capo on the third fret...I started doing this in 1980 after I got tired of constantly buying the high G strings...busking required more energy than at .009 pulled to its limit could give up. Yet, sound is without a doubt the best feature on the guitar. True, others who play it have definite problems (probably because the intonation is non-existent and you have to know where, when and how to bend to make it sound in tune as you climb up the neck), but this does not detract from the sounds which I am able to generate from the axe.

The action on this guitar has been kept kinda low. The frets are VERY used...they have been recrowned at least twice that I can remember. The fingerboard itself has had wear marks from my fingernails filled in (it was naturally scalloped from the first to the seventh fret). The bridge and nuts have both been replaced...ugly...but what a sound!

I played this guitar semi-professionally without a back-up for over 20 years. I gigged at least once a week (sometimes up to five times a week)and played seven days a week. Everything from Cat Stevens to Rock 'n Blues. It has lasted forever and if I hadn't been forced to buy a new 12 string because I broke the neck the day before a gig, I would likely never have gotten a backup guitar at all (Yamaha is what I ended up with because the Takamine I tried was crap acoustically)...thanks to that little adventure, I now have 15 guitars, a new respect for electricity and two dowels going through the neck right at the headstock. It has lasted over a quarter century with my abuse and continues to deliver the same rich sound I remember from my Youth...what more can I say.

Hehehehehehehe...good one!

This was NOT a top of the line guitar when I bought it. It was a cheap axe that my parents bought me (thanks guys!). Yet, here we are over 25 years gone by, and it still continues to bring pleasure. It is not perfect, but if you have something for long enough, even its flaws start to look good...I would never want to lose it, no one would bother stealing it, and I could never, ever, replace it. Would I buy another Ibanez 12 string....probably not, there are too many choices out there. But inexpensive does not always mean cheap, and this guitar is living proof!