Many made in Taiwan Yamaha guitars will have 2 serial numbers ink stamped in easily seen places, the brace under the fretboard and on the neck block. Oct 12, 2010 - 3 min - Uploaded by dickieharttDemonstration of a Yamaha FG-110 Acoustic Guitar, Made in Taiwan in 1974. • Talk with your fellow tone freaks on the web's liveliest (and friendliest!) tone forum. All are welcome, from seasoned pros to absolute beginners. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the by clicking the link above. You may have to before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Tech experts from Seymour Duncan are regularly on this forum, and are clearly labeled as employees of Seymour Duncan. They are here to help. Just curious if anyone here has any experience with Yamaha electric guitars. I’ve been looking into the AES series because God (AKA Chris Poland) is using them and I was impressed by what I saw: Duncan Pickups (the real deal, not Duncan Designed) Set neck construction with mahogany neck and body Built in Yamaha’s own factory, NOT built by Samick! Yamaha stresses a high QC standard Around $500 for the mid-line model. I’m seriously considering picking one up just for the hell of it. If the quality is great and the price is right why not?? Probably better than anything Gibson is churning out these days. Any opinions?? I played the frank gambale model and the mike stern model and both were outstanding but way too overpriced simply because of the 'name value'. If the regular models are of similar quality and a reasonable price, (and if you like how the feel and sound!!!) i'd have no hesitation about recommending them I purchased the Mike Stern Signature production guitar, the one w/out the SD pickups or the Tele-style controls and it's still a smoking guitar. The thing can take a licking and keep on ticking! I've been so bad to it and it still works! I just bought an AES620 for my daughter on a consideration deal price from Yamaha. Yamaha did this one absolutely right. The 400 and 800 series are a bit off the mark. Everything about this guitar should have cost more. Set neck, Mahogany, Duncan JB in the bridge, Yamaha Alnico II (?) designed neck pup, not too wide neck, but chunky C shape. I believe Sam Ash is gonna carry them store wide and not just online now. Street price is around $500. Like a Paul meets a PRS. It sounds as solid as it looks! Big recommendation! Buy the hard shell case from Yamaha, since the body is slighly different sized than a Paul, it will be harder to find a matching case, unless you prefer a gig bag. This info from my contact at Yamaha. Trying hard to decided if this is a funky T or I in my guitar's serial number. It's Japanese. It has a wider slash on the top. Normally I'd say it was a T. But that's not a valid serial number. Could it be a I? Look close there is a slash at the bottom. T's should be a vertical line with a slash across the top. Geez this is confusing. There's also a number up on the block near the strings. But usually the number on the guitar's neck block is the one that's needed. What do you see? Do the Japanese write funky and weird T's and I's? I guess it is a T. I know from the Yamaha archive the FG-160 and FG-160E was only manufactured 1972-74. It's a knock off copy of a Gibson J-160E that John Lennon played. Some really excellent copies of Gibson and Martin guitars were made in Japan in the 70's. At least until the lawsuit.;) Dating Yamaha Acoustic guitars With 7 digit numerical serial numbers,. HINT::These were made in the 1967 thru 1976 timeframe.These Serials Will Have No Letters and Start With Either 0 or 1. 1) On these guitars, the exact date is unknown as the serial numbers were allocated sequentially amongst all models being made in a production day, The next guitar off of the line regardless of model number got the next serial number. This means that the serial number is not tied to the manufacturing date. Frequently these will be a guitar made in Taiwan and there will be a “T” in front of the serial number. I was being stubborn and trying to cram a square peg into a round hole.;) That way I'd have a valid serial number to look up. The serial is valid with an I. But the faq makes it clear what is going on. The T indicates a Taiwan manufacture. Yamaha must of contracted with them to build some of their guitars. Most of the 1970's Yamaha acoustics were built in Japan but not all. Since the OP's question has been answered, I'm going to point out something here that's become a pet peeve of mine: It's '.must have.' , not '.must of.' I believe that is the katakana character イ, which is pronounced like the i in machine. The full designation is 伊号第四五潜水艦 (or 伊45 for short. The katakana イ is the phonetic representation of 伊. I have seen these submarine photos before, and I thought of that symbol while reading the OP. But the OP's photo seems to me to definately be a capital T. [offtopic]Wikipedia lists those 'I' series boats as the B-class. Is that (B-class) an American/Allied designation for these boats? What does that Katakana character actually mean? Edit: I can't read Japanese of any kind. I couldn't make sense of the content in scr4's link. Wikipedia lists those 'I' series boats as the B-class. Is that (B-class) an American/Allied designation for these boats? What does that Katakana character actually mean? Katakana characters don't mean anything. They're phonetic. As far as I could find out, the イ9 series submarines were also referred to as type 甲, and the イ15 series (including the イ45) were also referred to as type 乙. These are the first two 'numbers' or symbols in the Chinese celestial stem (so that's probably why they got translated as A and B.
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