Yamaha APX10NA

These guitars are made in Taiwan (like the other APX Models) - Yamaha is being politically correct and mentions it as a part of China.
Anyway - I don't own this guitar but have sold it many times and think it really bridges the gap for electric guitar players looking for a nylon sound without having to adjust to a completely different neck.
The APX-10NA has a laminated rosewood body, massive cedar top, a neck made of mahagony and a fretboard out of rosewood. The headstock is open (like other nylon string guitars) and allows for quite precise tuning.
Built in are a BBand Pickup and an adjustable microphone inside the body. The guitar comes with a feedback buster which is direly needed when intending to use the mic. Don't lose it and when you buy the guitar ask the sales clerk about it as often this gets forgotten. The APX all have an oval soundhole and you can't just go to the store and buy another one.
Constrution is of high quality as can be expected in this price range.

UTILIZATION

The guitar is APX shaped - this means it's quite small and comfortable to play. It is definately made for use on stage. Once you plug it in you will get a direct and clean sound right away. Be careful when you dial in the microphone as they very quickly make the sound very muddy. As with similar systems the mic should be opened about 20-30% - anything else just doesn't really sound good anymore.
The neck is probably the most distinguishing part of this instrument as it is as slim as on a steel string guitar. This might be terrible for nylon guitar players but for everybody else this is a true blessing. Yes you can't bend nylon strings like steel strings but besides that it is very easy to pick this instrument up and get playing.

SOUNDS

Most people I have sold this instrument to were looking for a nylon sound within a Jazz, Fusion or Singer/Songwriter context. And that is what this guitar is built for. Acoustically played it is not really a revelation. It is quite balanced but has no real bass and no real nuances. Acoustic guitar players should look for an instrument with a fully massive construction if they want added bass or overtones. I am sure this is also the reason why Yamaha didn't built this guitar fully massive.

Plugged in you get a very nice sound. It sounds a little artificial but once you find yourself in an ensemble that becomes a lot less apparent. What does become apparent is that you are still able to cut through the mix quite a bit. A lot of times BBands are too soft and warm sounding to be able to do this - but this guitar was specifically built for amplification.

OVERALL OPINION

I really like the fact that you can buy this model pretty much out of the box an will usually always get the same good quality. This thing is mass produced but it is built very well and with a very good design.
Again: Classical guitar players should try out something else. I also think it would have been nice to make the guitar sound a little better acoustically but I am pretty sure Yamaha had its reasons for that. The rosewood body looks nice but since it is laminated maybe a mahagony body would have been just as good.
I can definately recommend this instrument as it is the only one I know with this type of neck (very slinky and fast!).

NA series is not young but making yamaha japan 80s is above suspicion, solid cedar table cutaway, solid rosewood back and sides, bridge, ebony fingerboard and head, mechanical pearl, mahogany 46 at nut, 14 frets, one is in high quality and sturdy. The varnish is not Chinese-micron, 30 years after a stroke of polish and it shines like the first day.
Although the electronic part is replaced by the b-band, AST and UST + A6T preamp which replaces perfectly the old system to micro air a little too adept feedback and cricri knobs.

UTILIZATION

The neck is like Yamaha or Ibanez Gibson Epiphone is perfect, of course it will be difficult to do arpeggios Asturias, but bought the 10NA to play classical, despite the "classic electric guitar" written at the top of the handle, we think that the engineers at yam had fever. my Admira is not likely to be dethroned on this classic issue. For everything else, from blues to jazz, bossa, the picking, the country is a gifted ... if only one branch because unplugged well she whispers, perfectly accurate and precise without being too out. This is the low bridge that becomes a quality once connected.
Its thick body, flat, massive, small oval mouth gypsy style makes sense with the amp and there you go, it collects all without flinching, or large acoustic amp Vox tube is comfortable, the is powerful, deep, without the painful buzzing electroacoustic dreadnougnt steel piezo is a stage guitar and with the b-band and Ust Ast, feedback not know even without tape. But beware, the b-band requires a lot of care in installation and manic precision, I put a post about it on B-Band AST / UST. This is the third I installed and there are mistakes to avoid ...

SOUNDS

I'm not a tenor of the guitar but I really think this yam is up to the best level apx 1200 or 2000. With nylon strings, of course, no crystalline surge
in the treble, a thud and powerful bass hyper, I repeat, if the installation of the electret under saddle is made in the rules balance between the strings is perfect, AST provides a welcome depth. Although the sound is a re-creation as always with Yamaha
but with the b-band is better than the condenser microphone and the original piezo.
I note 8/10 because the Yamaha sound can annoy sometimes it attracted because it is fair and beautiful
but when I take my Admira Spanish, so light and medium medium finish, I realize
how the sound that comes out is the "standard" classic, irreplaceable guitars and Yamaha
manufactures to perfection anything else.

OVERALL OPINION

For over a year, I learned a lot from this instrument, it is quite difficult for a land not under the sound is always just the perfect balance, easy barred, fast neck and amplification formidable even to peter windows efficiency, it is almost as much noise as my Epiphone 339 to say without stuttering. If you find one, check the handle well on the road truss is useful for the rest it does not fear the scene, the varnish is like vitrified unalterable youth ... For my part I take care, this is a collection of skyscrapers still with 30 years and 500 or 600 euros, a real guitar pro, it is much better than the factory chinoiserie certainly nice for fans. We still on the market, the latter have the rosewood instead of ebony, the weak point is the age of the electronics after 20 years, change inevitably.