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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:	GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:	Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:	KDX200::COOPER

Created:	Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3280
Total number of notes:	61432

2942.0. "Yairi guitars" by COPCLU::SANDGREN (Keep it simple) Tue Jun 14 1994 11:19

	Saw no note on these, have to tell you that I tried out the
	CY140 'Grand Concert Master' today - this is the finest
	classic guitar I've ever tried!! (as far as I remember).

	It has 'the' classic guitar sound, a bright, singing tone.
	It's hard to explain, it just 'sings'. List price in Denmark
	is about $4000, seems that I can get very special deal of about
	$2000...counting...counting...

	Have any of you tried this beauty? Anyone how much $$$ it lists
	for in the US?

	Poul

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2942.1	"A noble title..."	HOTLNE::LUCHT		`Tue Jun 14 1994 14:15`	5
	Any structural specifications? Kev --
2942.2	Structural? I didn't take it apart! ;-)	COPCLU::SANDGREN	Keep it simple	`Wed Jun 15 1994 05:18`	18
	Structural specifications? Is that what it is made of, and so on? If so, I don't have a clue, except for an ebony fretboard, and spruce top, what I think any quality classic guitar has. Besides that, it looks nice, and plays wonderful! Real classic guitars (I mean the ones with nylon strings and a flat fretboard!) seem to be rather conservatively built - they all have the same shape, nearly the same size, etc. My friend, who runs the music store, told me there's up to one year of delivery for this beauty, and he has ordered one (the one I tried was already sold) - and I've told him to put it aside for me! ...counting $$$s... Still, I wonder if any of you know the list price in the US? Poul
2942.3	more raving	COPCLU::SANDGREN	Keep it simple	`Fri Jun 17 1994 16:18`	21
	Well I was not right about the spruce top. Here is what the bro- chure tells about the CY140: "The CY140 is made for the concert artist who needs volume, ex- ceptional tone quality and projection required for auditorium performance. It is the finest classic made by Kazuo Yairi. Be- cause of the extreme care exercised in the construction of this instrument, the production is limited. Close grained Canadian cedar is used for the top and rich looking jacaranda is used for the sides and back of the instrument. Both of these woods are chosen for their beauty and their sound transmitting capabili- ties. Honduran Mahogany is used to make the neck. Solid ebony is utilized to construct the fingerboard and rosewood inlaid with ivory is used to make the bridge. Solid bone is used for saddle and nut." I can't live without this guitar! ...counting $$$... Poul
2942.4		E::EVANS		`Fri Jun 17 1994 16:46`	5
	GTS strikes again. Jim
2942.5	Alas, I've tried one..	HOTLNE::LUCHT		`Wed Jul 13 1994 15:35`	15
	The Grand Concert Master IS an excellent classical guitar. "Fretted Instruments" (THE most righteous guitar store, if your into these kinds of things) located in Amherst, Massachusetts has two of these. List price over here is $1400. Play the game and you can take it home for $1100. The value is only going to go up as Brazilian rosewood becomes more and more limited. As for the overall sound of this instrument: one word- MAGIC. It gives an almost 3-dimensional quality that I've heard only in some esteemed Ramirez models. Try it out and I guarantee you'll want one. Kev --
2942.6		E::EVANS		`Wed Jul 13 1994 16:41`	6
	$1100 for a quality Brazilian rosewood guitar seems a bit low. This wood is quite limited in its availability. Jim
2942.7	don't understand	COPCLU::SANDGREN	Keep it simple	`Thu Jul 14 1994 18:34`	8
	re .5 (Kev): I already tried it! That's why I'm f*cking crazy about this guitar! Now what are you saying about brazilian rosewood? In .3, I wrote what the brochure said - no brazilian rosewood. Or is this jacaranda wood the same as braz. rosew.?? Poul, writing from his vacation residence (home)
2942.8	That's the stuff...	HOTLNE::LUCHT		`Fri Jul 15 1994 10:13`	1