the thing about yamaha is that they have a research and development dept going at a thousand miles an hour.

the guitars that i bust a gut to buy for seven hundred quid a year or three ago(RRP 900-12000) can now be got for about five hundred quid on ebay.

the transacoustic will no doubt be superseded - they probably have its successor in the pipeline, as we speak.

big al whittle - yamaha fan currently owner of LLX16BL, cpx15cm and AC3R - and ex owner of too many yamahas to remember!