Whaleblue
Southbound
...well not any guitar...
Pedant!
I meant acoustic, played unamplified.
...well not any guitar...
Wise man you.Ok, just to please you lot I’ve just bought a real cheap one whilst I ponder/research a high-end purchase.
Good stuff. I expect the strings will be old? These are nice strings that last a long time. Change them one at a time to save stressing the neck by taking them all off at once.
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Ok, just to please you lot I’ve just bought a real cheap one whilst I ponder/research a high-end purchase. An early-70s Nippon Gakki (i.e. Japanese-made) Yamaha G-85A for £50 that is just a short bus-ride away. As far as I can make out it is a fairly decent quality laminate construction guitar that dates from 1970-72. They were $89 when new, so that’s a good few hundred quid in today’s money and there is a bit of a collector market for proper Japanese Yamahas so I should get my cash back easy enough when I eventually come to upgrade it. I read somewhere that a lot of ‘70s Yamahas were laminate not so much for cheapness, but because they had many issues with cracks when exporting solid tops all around the world. I’d certainly expect it to be a good bit better than a modern C40 or whatever. I just hope the neck is straight as unlike electrics there is bugger all you can do with classical guitars that doesn’t involve proper woodwork, and I don’t do that!
Yes, at a guitar shop they told me the same thing. But I would never, ever do such a thing to any of my guitars... The tension involved in stringing a guitar the normal way is already considerable (put some steel strings on a classical guitar, it breaks in two), I can hardly imagine such a torture being any good for your poor guitar. My method is to let the guitar rest for a week and slightly overstretch the new strings once a day, and proceed to proper tuning and playing from then on.I also saw on a you tube how to video that once you have changed all the strings pull them fairly strongly up and to the side to condition them so they stay in tune.
Erm, Tony, wasn't Japan a cheap-labour country at the time ? Just saying.An early-70s Nippon Gakki (i.e. Japanese-made) Yamaha G-85A
Erm, Tony, wasn't Japan a cheap-labour country at the time ? Just saying.