A sonic echo of days gone by. With sound, playability, and style that belies the price tag. The Tanglewood TWBBSFCE Blackbird Electro Acoustic is perfect for honing your skills and mastering your persona. Bringing you a classic acoustic tone, stage-worthy style, and slick playability. And, with responsive electronics, it's easy to perform your way, and unleash your true persona.

On a strict budget? But crave quality you can develop your style with? This is it. With unbelievable value, and a meticulous Tanglewood design. This TWBBSFCE Blackbird is perfect for any player looking for that old-school warmth and classic acoustic voice, combined. And thanks to a familiar, all-purpose super folk body, the Blackbird is immensely responsive to your individuality too. Plus, with a satin finish, Venetian cutaway and a 'musician's first' attitude, you know the Blackbird is a breeze to play. So reach out, grab value that belies the price tag, and take the next step in your musical journey.

Building on the global success of our Crossroads range of instruments, our design team have created a whole new range of guitars, inspired by the cosmetic of 1940/50's era US instruments with the class leading constructional signature of Michael Sanden and the Tanglewood artisanal team.

Every Blackbird model is carefully braced to provide a tight bottom end bass note and clear rich high spectrum resonance.

We have bound each model in vintage ivory ABS materials to provide the look of Bakelite from the 40's, and though this won’t affect the sound, it certainly helps give provenance to the historic look our design team wished to capture, and to our mind, they have done a wonderful job.

We have both traditional acoustic models and stage ready electro acoustic versions available, all featuring the outstanding new Tanglewood Premium Plus Eq system as standard equipment.

The rich smoky charcoal stained finish we have christened 'Smokestack Black' and we hope, amongst the range you will be able to choose your own favourite!

SHAPE Orchestra
TOP Hand Selected Mahogany
BACK Mahogany
SIDES Mahogany
FINGERBOARD Techwood
BRIDGE Techwood
STRINGS Bronze Light
ELECTRONICS Tanglewood Premium Plus
FINISH Smokestack Black Satin

Our new Winterleaf Black Shadow Super Folk cutaway has to be one of the most contemporary models we produce.

We have married a Solid African Mahogany top to a select African Mahogany back and sides and think we’ve created something very special.

The sound of this instrument is warm, rich and high in Bass tones, a part of the register that many instruments lose when the body size is smaller.

The mahogany top makes such a difference and it’s voicing is perfect for straight acoustic playing or plugged in studio/live use.

We put Grover machines, Tusq saddles, Elixir strings and Premium Plus EQ systems onto each guitar to maximise its professional features and we hope give class leading value for money.

To complete the job, we created the transparent smoky black gloss finish to wash over the rich mahogany and give a striking, visual appeal that will satisfy all contemporary players.

We are certain, this brand new Winterleaf model is going to be a future Tanglewood classic.

We’ve created our own stylish dreadnought shape, as seen on instruments played by Neil Young, Paul Simon and Jimmy Page to name but three legends,  and added a contemporary cutaway for upper fretboard access.

To give the guitar a unique voice, we’ve fitted a premium African Mahogany top, cut from Solid Timbers to give the warmest of tones and an instant impact for the player.

We absolutely love this guitars sound, and are really pleased with the way they perform, as we’re sure you’ll be too!

We fit Grover machines for optimum tuning, A Premium Plus EQ system for live and studio capabilities, and finish the instrument in a stunning high gloss finish that we’ve christened Autumn Vintage Burst.

We don’t want to say that this new AVB colour finish is the best we’ve ever created, but it’s got to be up there!

• SHAPE: Dreadnought Cutaway
• TOP: Solid Mahogany
• BACK: Mahogany
• SIDES: Mahogany
• FINGERBOARD: Eboncore
• BRIDGE: Techwood