Cort MR500E, brown hi gloss

Playing guitar is fun! Playing through an amp every now and then is, of course, even more fun! And sometimes it’s just necessary—for example, when you’re playing with other musicians and want to be heard over the drummer, or because you want to record your own music at home.

Especially because of that last use case, we get a lot of requests for guitars that have a pickup, aren’t too expensive, but also sound great. And that’s exactly why we’ve added this Cort MR500 to our collection! This guitar features a solid spruce top, laminated mahogany sides and back, an ovangkol fingerboard, a cutaway, and a Cort preamp. In this price range, it’s truly a Klundert favorite!

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For the beginner guitarist, we want to offer the best available on the market. Because especially when you’re just starting out with guitar playing, you’ll benefit from a great guitar that sounds good, is well-built, and has a neat finish.
Cort guitars are built at the Cor-tek factory in Indonesia, which has been the go-to manufacturer for many other major guitar brands—such as Ibanez, PRS, and Fender—for years, producing over 1 million guitars annually!

In fact, it’s Cor-tek’s house brand, although Cort is truly a standalone, renowned brand in its own right and has long been the market leader in the entry-level segment, offering great products, plenty of choice, and competitive prices.

Due to the enormous volume of instruments built by Cort, you benefit from the law of large numbers; the quality of materials, construction, and finish is highly consistent. Minor issues or problems that (seem to be) inherent to this price range—which we sometimes encounter with most other brands—are rarely seen with Cort and occur only in exceptional cases

• Instrument type: acoustic guitar
• Brand: Cort
• Model: MR500E Brown Burst
• Series: MR500E
• Color: brown
• Body
  shape: dreadnought
  top: solid spruce
  sides and back: mahogany
  finish: open-pore
  binding: glued
• Neck
  material: mahogany
  finish: high-gloss
  profile: dovetail
  scale length: 25.3" (643 mm)
  Fingerboard material: ovangkol
  Fingerboard radius: 12" (305 mm)
  Binding: glued
  Number of frets: 20
  Nut material: plastic
  Nut width: 43 mm (1.69 inches)
• Hardware
  bridge: ovangkol
  hardware finish: chrome-plated
  tuning machines: closed
  pickguard: black
  strings: D'Addario USA EXP16 Light
• Electronics
  preamp: Cort CE304T
  pickup: piezo
  controls: yes
  tuner: yes