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Thread #163568 Message #3904554
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
09-Feb-18 - 06:28 AM
Thread Name: Yamaha 10 thousand quid guitar
Subject: RE: Yamaha 10 thousand quid guitar
i've used yamaha guitars a lot over the years.
The main album that constitutes my main contribution to the folk/songwriting world was recorded on compass series cpx8.
the cpx8 was a beautiful guitar. a fabulous package of technology and lutherie for about five or six hundred quid. however in retrospect i wish that i'd used a guitar constructed with solid woods for my main album.
At the time there was nothing in yamaha range constructed of solid wood for less than two grand.
it was Faith guitars and Cort that started making the first reasonably priced solid wood guitars that i was aware of. For a while I played a Parkwood Cort that Sunjay Brayne plays nowadays and prefers to his three thousand quid Collings.
Since then Yamaha and Fender have been my main guitars. The Fender Paramount with the Adirondack spruce top is my current standard tuning guitar and the yamaha ac3r is the one i use for open tunings. both are solid wood construction - both less than 700 quid.
i am genuinely interested in what a ten thousand quid yamaha will offer.