The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45962   Message #680497
Posted By: DonMeixner
31-Mar-02 - 10:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Yamaha FG140
Subject: RE: BS: Yamaha FG140
My first Guitar was an FG-180 Red Label. Besides me it taught four others in my family to play. My brother most recently used it as a Hawaiian guitar.

In the early seventies when I was in my U. Utah Phillips clonehood it played railroad and old western songs by the hour. At some point it got used to playing sea chanties.

It had a typically bassy sound but the treble end could hold its own. It was frequently thot to be a Martin by the sound of it.

Now it sits in the case, de-tuned because with my damaged fingers I can't play it very well any more. The action is a little stiff for me now. But I also can't part with it.

Great guitars.

Don