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    Yamaha guitars overrated?

    in Acoustic Guitars

    Posted · Edited by thankyou

    Yamaha has a range of quality in their products, but none of them are junk. My favorite guitar right now is a GCX-171CC. My wife "gave" it to me for our twentieth anniversary. In addition to the peizo, it has one of those condenser mics under the soundhole, which is prone to feedback, its one flaw. A friend had someone give him a G-90A that someone else had equipped with steel strings. One of the tuners was bent and frozen. I had an extra set of tuners from my Carvin NS1 - another story. After installing the new tuners and strings, the little box sounded great. I did some research, found out that it was from around 1970. The fact that it had laminate construction may have saved it from the steel strings.

     

    Anyway, if you find one of these G-90A guitars, it's not a high end classic, but it's a great workman like instrument, with good action and sound.

     

    The label on the G-90A said "Made in Taiwan, Republic of China." That made me guess it was probably more than a few years old.

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