Paul Reed Smith Receives Premier Guitar’s Premier Gear Award

Dec. 10, 2009 - PRLog -- The PRS Tonare Grand has been awarded a Premier Gear Award for the month of December.

The Premier Gear Award is an honor bestowed upon a piece of gear—whether guitar, amp, effect, or other gear— that has been extraordinary enough to impress the staff of Premier Guitar. Despite the high quality of all gear reviewed by Premier Guitar, only exemplary items earn the award.

“The Tonare Grand is absolutely everything you’d want in a guitar this price range, even significantly higher,” says reviewer Gayla Drake Paul. “It makes everything easier. It makes you a better player because it lets you play better.” Premier Guitar awarded the Tonare Grand a rating of 5.0, the highest possible rating. The full review can be accessed at: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2009/Dec/PRS_Tonare_Grand_Acoustic_Guitar_Review.aspx

“All of us at PRS Guitars are flattered by the Premier Gear Award for our Tonare Grand acoustic,” says Larry Urie, National Sales and Marketing Manager for Paul Reed Smith. “And we sincerely thank Premier Guitar for choosing our guitar for this honor.”

“We take the review process very seriously,” writes Premier Guitar’s managing editor Gabe Hernandez. “We don’t have some guy sitting in a back room, waiting for a guitar or amp to come in the mail so he can look at it and write a few paragraphs about it. All of our reviewers are actual, very discerning musicians that take the instrument or gear and put it through its paces. They try to leave no stone unturned so that the reader can get a precise feel for whether the product will work for them or not. If you see a piece of gear in our magazine with the Premier Gear Award logo on it, that means we put it through a very rigorous test—and it still blew us away!”


About Paul Reed Smith Guitars (http://www.prsguitars.com):
Paul Reed Smith Guitars has come a long way, with steady growth in factory capacity, employees, distribution, and the number of prominent artists using their instruments. They’re not stopping there. Every inch of a PRS guitar is based on decades of testing, rethinking, and reinventing. With experts to make sure the technology is unsurpassed, and dedicated craftspeople who guarantee a finished product you can’t keep your hands off of, they make no compromises.

About Premier Guitar (http://www.premierguitar.com):
Offering guitarists a multimedia source for news, gear info and education/instruction, Premier Guitar is the media home for players who are serious about their tone. PG's gear-centric print magazine has a monthly circulation of 30,000 complemented by the industry's only complete, freely accessible online magazine (http://digital.premierguitar.com) that attracts more than 25,000 monthly visits; a Web site (www.premierguitar.com) that's the fastest-growing portal in the guitar industry with an average of more than 400,000 unique visitors consuming almost 10 million page views per month; and the market's leading interactive gear search service that attracts more than 200,000 monthly visitors. With nearly 50,000 pieces of gear, players can find, buy and sell gear on Gear Search (http://www.premierguitar.com/gear/gear_search.aspx). Published by Gearhead Communications, LLC, Premier Guitar is employee-owned and based in Marion, Iowa with offices throughout the U.S.

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Premier Guitar offers guitarists a multimedia source for news, gear info and education/instruction, PG is the media home for players who are serious about their tone.