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The first 71 Special was constructed in 1970. A 71 Special and associated parts was placed on permanent exhibit in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1975.
The 71 Special features: rosewood back and sides, a spruce top, voiced top and back bracing, variegated wood back strip, herringbone purfling and soundhole rosette, bound ebony fingerboard and ebony bridge, abalone snowflake fingerboard inlays, mother-of-pearl bellflower headstock inlay, and gold plated keys. The width of the fingerboard at the nut is 1-11/16 inch. |
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Features
- Top: Sitka Spruce
- Back and Sides: Rosewood
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Ebony Bound
- Bridge: Ebony Ebony
- Finish: Natural Gloss
- Purfling: Herringbone
- Binding: Ivoroid
- # of Frets Clear: 14
- Nut and Saddle: Bone
- Trussrod: Adjustable
- Scale: 25.25
- Tuning Machines: Gold Enclosed
- Voiced Bracing: Yes
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