YAMAHA
YAMAHA COMPASS SERIES
YAMAHA CPX500III ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC GUITAR
VINTAGE SUNBURST LACQUER FINISH
The medium-jumbo body CPX delivers an open, modern tone with powerful, rich low-end, smooth, delicate highs, and sweet mids. Non-scalloped X-type bracing ensures a strong, rich acoustic tone that remains clear and usable on stage.
The Yamaha Compass Series of electro-acoustic guitars have been inspiring and delighting guitarists around the world for more than twenty years. Now, with the Yamaha CPX500III that inspiration is available to a new generation of players and thanks to the buying power of southcoastmusic, that inspiration is more affordable than ever.
Yamaha refer to the style of the CPX500III as a Concert Cutaway. It’s body shape may be more familiar as a ‘Grand Auditorium’ style guitar. With its combinaton of a Sitka Spruce top and Nato / Okume back and sides, the CPX500III delivers a pure and unique presence with a balanced tonal range featuring crisp mids, subtle lows and angelic highs.
Yamaha’s CPX500III features a 20 fret Rosewood fingerboard and Nato neck along with a Rosewood Bridge.
For those not familiar with ‘Nato’, it is one of the softer hardwoods like Mahogany, Walnut, Koa and Maple as well as being an excellent alternative to Rosewood. The species used in guitar construction is from South East Asia and often referred to as ‘Eastern Mahogany’. Nato embodies all of the properties of Mahogany in a sustainable, more readily available tone wood.
Yamaha are well known for their Audio and Electronic Engineering expertise. It comes as no surprise then that Yamaha design, engineer and build their own pickup systems for their Electro-Acoustic guitars. The CPX500III features Yamaha’s System 66 pickup system with an under saddle piezo pickup that has been specifically designed by Yamaha to work in sync with the dynamics of this specific guitar.
The system includes an active preamp with a 3 band equaliser and adjustable mid-range frequency control allowing you to shape the tone to your exact needs as well as eliminating any troublesome frequencies that may lead to feedback issues. There is also a precision chromatic tuner built in for swift, easy and accurate setup.
YAMAHA CPX500III Acoutsic-Electric Guitar Features
o Top Material: Sitka Spruce
o Back & Side Material: Nato / Okume
o Neck Material: Nato / Okume
o Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
o Body Shape: Concert Cutaway (Grand Auditorium)
o Colour: Vintage Sunburst
o Pickguard: Transparent Pickguard
o Pickups: System 66
o Number of Strings: 6
o Bridge: Rosewood
o Body Depth: 95 – 115mm
o Nut Width: 43 mm
o Scale Length: 650 mm
o Tuners: Die-Cast Chrome
o FIVE YEAR WARRANTY
