YAMAHA FG820 ACOUSTIC GUITAR NATURAL GLOSS FINISH
Yamaha’s FG Series Guitars have inspired and delighted millions of Guitarists since they were first released in 1966. Yamaha are not known to rest on their laurels and the FG series has evolved to become the biggest selling Acoustic Guitar Series of all time. The FG820 ensures that the standard is kept high.
With it’s hand crafted Dreadnought body, the FG820 delivers a beautifully balanced tone. Rich bass, smooth, delicate highs and a sweet mid-range all combine in an open, modern voice. The specially redesigned X bracing provides the necessary support for the bookmatched solid Sitka Spruce top without choking the tone and ensures a powerful yet controlled voice that allows the guitar to deliver beautifully rich acoustic sounds perfectly suited to any situation.
The Yamaha FG820 offers great value with its gorgeous Solid Sitka Spruce top and Mahogany back and sides all wrapped up in a beautiful natural gloss lacquer finish.
Played with a plectrum or fingerstyle, the FG820 sounds simply superb and in the tradition of Yamaha’s best selling acoustics guitars…it’s affordable too. As well as its great tone, Yamaha have also given the aesthetics their attention. The FG820 has an elegant faux Tortoiseshell pickguard and multi-ply bound body and single ply bound neck.
YAMAHA FG820 ACOUSTIC GUITAR SPECIFICATIONS
- Body Shape: Traditional Western Dreadnought
- Scale Length: 650mm (25 9/16”)
- Body Length: 505mm (19 7/8″)
- Total Length: 1038mm (40 7/8″)
- Body Width: 412mm (16 1/4″)
- Body Depth: 100-118mm (3 15/16”- 4 5/8”)
- Nut Width: 43mm (1 11/16”)
- String Spacing: 11.0mm
- Top Material: Solid Sitka Spruce
- Back Material: Mahogany
- Side Material: Mahogany
- Neck Material: Nato
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 400mmR (23 5/8″)
- Bridge Material: Rosewood
- Nut Material: Urea
- Saddle Material: Urea
- Bridge Pins: Black ABS with White Dot
- Tuners: Die-cast Geared Sealed Tuners (TM29T)
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Body Binding: Cream
- Soundhole Inlay: Black + White
- Pickguard: Tortoise Pattern
- Body Finish: Gloss Lacquer
- Neck Finish: Matt Lacquer
- Strings .012/.016/.024/.032/.042/.053″
- Setup: PRO-SCM
- Warranty: Five Years
So… who plays YAMAHA Acoustic Guitars?
So, who plays Yamaha Acoustic Guitars you may well ask? Yamaha had only been building acoustic guitars for four years when American Singer, Country Joe took to the stage at Woodstock with a Yamaha FG150 and the rest is as they say . . . history!
Get ready for a few surprises. The most expensive Yamaha Aco
ustic Guitar ever built was created after a request from John Lennon. John Lennon became interested in Yamaha acoustics after playing a custom acoustic which had been built for Paul Simon. The celebrated American singer-songwriter is a longtime fan of Yamaha acoustics, which the company custom-makes for him with slightly smaller bodies to fit the artist’s compact frame. But Simon was hardly alone.
Yamaha acoustics became high visibility items during the Seventies. John Denver, James Taylor and David Lindley played them. Bruce Springsteen relied heavily on a Yamaha Acoustic Guitar during the fertile Eighties phase of his career and Yamaha Acoustic Guitars also featured on the Stage at Woodstock.
Jimmy Page played Yamaha acoustics during Led Zeppelin’s 1975 world tour and would later make Yamaha his acoustics of choice for the Page/Plant Unleaded tour in the Nineties. Whenever Jimmy flies around the World his baggage usually includes a Yamaha Acoustic Guitar
These are names that should be immediately famliar to you…a quick scan of Youtube or Foxtel will reveal the contemporary players that play Yamaha Acoustic Guitars…look up Joe Bonamassa, Annekei and Michael Herring for starters!
The Yamaha FG820 is a great guitar and with our comprehensive PRO-SCM setup, it’s is ready to take you in whatever direction your musical journey determines!
