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MGR/Doug Friedman « Yamaha 20 »
Published on 12/02/03 at 15:00I got this one at a charity shop in Southern California, just like Nick Kirk did in New Zealand. I paid 15 dollars.
This thing is old. It has serial number 20. I tried the online Yamaha serial number finder and it couldn't find it, and the Yamaha tech support and they couldn't look it up. It has a great old finish, it has inlay dots at 5, 7, 10, and 12 frets, and one inlay dot on the bridge. The headstock looks like it was either stamped or had a decal that said YAMAHA Dynamic Guitar, and it is so old it fades into the brown of the finish, where the lettering is smooth compared to the aged finish. At first I thought "firewood" but then I saw no cracks, a really sturdy guitar with a perfect fretboard, round neck that flattens in the middle. Only one slightly tweaked tuning head stem on the D string. I wonder what it has been doing all these years.
Needs two strings. I only got it half an hour ago, and I'm at work so I can't get out to change them.
Solid.
Wow. I guess the collectors missed this one. It is just like Nick Kirk's story from New Zealand.
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This thing is old. It has serial number 20. I tried the online Yamaha serial number finder and it couldn't find it, and the Yamaha tech support and they couldn't look it up. It has a great old finish, it has inlay dots at 5, 7, 10, and 12 frets, and one inlay dot on the bridge. The headstock looks like it was either stamped or had a decal that said YAMAHA Dynamic Guitar, and it is so old it fades into the brown of the finish, where the lettering is smooth compared to the aged finish. At first I thought "firewood" but then I saw no cracks, a really sturdy guitar with a perfect fretboard, round neck that flattens in the middle. Only one slightly tweaked tuning head stem on the D string. I wonder what it has been doing all these years.
Needs two strings. I only got it half an hour ago, and I'm at work so I can't get out to change them.
Solid.
Wow. I guess the collectors missed this one. It is just like Nick Kirk's story from New Zealand.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com