YAMAHA A1RTBS DETAILS The Yamaha A1R TBS traditional western body cutaway guitar features solid sitka spruce top with scalloped bracing and rosewood back and sides. In the Yamaha A1R Dreadnought, Yamaha offers a vintage look, excellent volume in the low-mid ranges, and great playability. With a solid Sitka spruce top and rosewood back and sides, this guitar sounds fantastic. The Yamaha A1R Dreadnought takes full advantage of Yamaha's acclaimed SRT pickup for recording and stage performance. With its traditional System 66 preamp, you get volume, a built-in tuner, a 3-band EQ, and automatic midrange frequency control with a convenient slider. Modern audio engineering with classic styleThe Yamaha A1R Dreadnought has a traditional western body cutaway, allowing its lows and highs to resonate fully and project well through its circular soundhole. The western cutaway gives it a classic look, and because it offers better access to the upper frets, soloing is easier, as you can reach higher treble notes more comfortably. Quality tonewoods produce brilliant soundSitka spruce is highly valued for guitar tops - and for good reason. This select grade of stiff but elastic softwood is equally suited to aggressive strumming, flatpicking, and even fingerpicking styles of play. The Yamaha A1R Dreadnought features a solid Sitka top with rosewood back and sides, producing warm, balanced tones from low to high, and the rosewood fingerboard and bridge provide additional responsiveness. This guitar looks, sounds, and plays great. Studio sound onstageNormally you can best hear a guitar's subtle nuances when it's miked in the studio, but the Yamaha A1M Dreadnought has Yamaha's SRT pickup, which brings those wonderful acoustic sounds to the stage. Further customization is provided through the AMF midrange frequency adjustment on the preamp control panel. Yamaha A1R Dreadnought Features: 6-string acoustic-electric with traditional western cutaway Solid Sitka spruce top and mahogany back and sides for bright, warm tone SRT pickup brings studio quality sound to the performance stage Specs: String Type: Steel Number of Strings: 6 Body Shape: Dreadnought Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed Color: Tobacco Brown Sunburst Finish: Gloss Top Wood: Solid Sitka Spruce Back & Sides Wood: Rosewood Body Bracing: Scalloped bracing Binding: Mahogany Neck Wood: 3-piece Mahogany Radius: 15.75" Fingerboard Material: Rosewood Fingerboard Inlay: Dots Number of Frets: 20 Scale Length: 25.5" Tuning Machines: Die-cast chrome Bridge Material: Rosewood Nut/Saddle Material: Urea/Urea Nut Width: 1.692" Electronics: SRT system preamp with undersaddle pickup Yamaha's original SRT piezo pickup ensures solid plugged-in performance. Powerful Acoustic Sound A-series has louder and stronger in the low-mid ranges thanks to cutting-edge acoustic analysis technology developed by the Yamaha R&D Division. . Their analysis led to the development of the new scalloped bracing for the top board and shorter bracing than normal for the back board. Comfortable Neck Profile Extensive research with players, luthiers and guitar techs has given A-Series the feel and playability that today’s acoustic-electric players want, whether switching from electric to acoustic on-stage, recording a session with intricate open tunings, or practicing at home.. These superb guitars feature a straighter neck taper for easier high-fret playing, and hand-rolled fingerboard edges to achieve a played-in feel. Elixir Strings A-series guitars are equipped with Elixir NANOWEB 80/20 Bronze Light strings to deliver a lively tone together with extended tone life that players have come to expect from Elixir Strings.. http://www.elixirstrings.com/guitar-strings/80-20-bronze-guitar-strings.html Simple and Distinctive Looks The simple, organic design features wood binding and other techniques that capture the warmth of wood.. The distinctive shape of the pick guard, which stands out when performing, is a revival of the N1000 guitar that Yamaha released in 1975. Electric System System72 features an under-saddle piezo pickup developed by Yamaha. Controls include a 3-band EQ, an adjustable mid-range frequency control, and a precision chromatic tuner for optimum sound tailoring. The system is powered by easy to obtain AA-size batteries that provide a stable power supply for improved sound quality.
