Earlier this week, PRS unveiled its new SE Parlor series, the legendary company's first-ever line of parlor guitars.
Featuring all-mahogany construction, PRS’s hybrid ‘X’/classic bracing and - on the P20E acoustic-electric model - a Fishman GT1 pickup system, the guitars certainly represent a departure for PRS. With their dashing vintage looks and affordable price point though, the departure isn't an unwelcome one.
Though we're eagerly awaiting our own SE parlor acoustic, blues guitar specialist Justin Johnson already got his, and was kind enough to share his first impressions in a video with Guitar World.
In the video, Johnson takes you on a comprehensive tour of the guitar's features, including the Fishman pickup and its controls, while also showing what it can do sonically with some lovely fingerpicking and dazzling acoustic slide work.
You can check out the demo above.
For more info on the SE Parlor series, point your browser over to PRS Guitars.
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
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