![]() 3-level guitars (including the FSX3) are made in Yamaha's factory in China.Īt a glance, our humble looking FSX3 could easily be mistaken for one of its Nippon Gakki, Japan-made ’60s counterparts. ![]() 5-level guitars in the series are made at Yamaha's Custom Shop in Japan. The FG/FS Red Label series includes eight all-solid-wood models in two body sizes: the “traditional Western” dreadnought and the 000/OM-sized concert. And while they aren’t quite as inexpensive as their FG forebears (The FSX3 reviewed here is $999, and the top-of-the-line FGX5 comes in at nearly $1,400.), they are high-quality and super-playable instruments at a fair price. But the modern incarnations add up-to-date features like a new scalloped bracing pattern, Yamaha’s “Atmosfeel” pickup and preamp system, and tonewoods “aged” through the company’s pressure-, humidity-, and temperature-treating process. ![]() Yamaha’s new FG/FS Red Label lineup visually evokes those early red-label FG Yamaha steel-strings. Not surprisingly, a sizable cult of players now sings the praises of these sturdy vintage values. Affordable, and often fantastically well-built for the money, original Yamaha FGs were, for thousands of players, the first really good guitar they would own. ![]() But the Yamahas that truly put the company on the flattop map were the FG series, a range of steel-string flattops that appeared in the mid ’60s. Yamaha has made classical guitars since the 1940s. ![]()
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