Yamaha FG JR1 3/4 Size Acoustic Guitar with Gig Bag
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at
10:57 pm
- Built with the legendary quality and playability
- 3/4 size for easy travel and comfortable playing
- Ideal first guitar for a child
- Guitar features a Spruce top, Indonesian Back and Sides, Nato Neck and a Javanese Rosewood fingerboa
- Includes Gigbag
Product Description
Built with the legendary quality and playability the FG Series, Yamaha designed the JR1 for the younger player or anyone who is more comfortable with a smaller-bodied acoustic. Carefully selection of woods goes into the building of every single Yamaha guitar and the JR1 is no exception. Features include a spruce top, nato neck, rosewood fingerboard and meranti body for solid, bright tonality and great looks, and chrome hardware. Includes gig bag.JR1Great as a trave… More >>
Yamaha FG JR1 3/4 Size Acoustic Guitar with Gig Bag
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I purchased this guitar for my young sons taking lessons but this guitar is just as playable for an adult as for a child. Their guitar teacher was very impressed by the sound and construction of the guitar and the kit bag was actually a pretty good little bag.
Rating: 5 / 5
Great beginner’s guitar, good tonality, easy to tune, holds tune well. Great size for my 9 year old daughter.
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased this guitar for my 8 year old son as a starter guitar.
The craftsmanship of the guitar was quite good compared to 2 Rogue accoustic guitars which I also purchased for my sons (see my review of the Rogue Starter accoustic guitar, and the Rogue RA-100D Dreadnought guitar Rogue RA-100D Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar, Black for a description of sub-standard craftsmanship on those products).
The sound was reasonably bright with good intonation. Better than many of the starter guitars in the $100-$120 range.
I would recommend this guitar at a price of $120 or less.
Rating: 5 / 5
One of the other reviewers complained that their guitar teacher called this a “1/4 sized guitar” and it appeared that they felt they had gotten a bad deal. No, it is a 3/4 sized guitar – this is based on scale length and not overall size of the guitar – but it is small. This guitar has a 21 1/4″ scale (normal is about 26″ but it varies), a 12 1/2″ lower bout and a 9″ upper bout. This places it in the parlor size category, more or less, and it fits a child well.
This is a fully functioning guitar with a solid spruce top, decent craftsmanship, and an adjustable truss rod. The action is acceptable (although it needs setup at the nut) and the tone is, well, there. You are never going to confuse the Yamaha FG JR1 for a $3000 Taylor. It is a $120 guitar. The main virtues are its size, playability, and price. For that $120 you get a well made, well designed small guitar suitable for all ages with enough tone and volume to hold its own in a small group. You can take it aboard any plane and place it in the overhead rack. If you are sitting around the campfire and have to fight off a bear with it, you are only out $120 and it is sturdy enough to tolerate at least one swing.
The adjustable truss rod lets you change the relief of the neck in all sorts of conditions (assuming you are brave enough to do so) and a little filing on the nut by your luthier (don’t try this at home unless you have some experience) will make it very playable for both finger style and pick.
So it is not the top of the line, it works well for what it was intended to be. It sure beats the heck out of the so-called travel guitars which all sound like they are made from cardboard and look like the set designer of Avatar or LOTR produced them for orcs. If you are looking for a quality small guitar but are too cheap to pay for one, give the Yamaha FG JR1 a look.
Rating: 4 / 5
i bought this to play at a lake house. it has a nice sound for an inexpensive guitar. its padded case made it easy to take on an airplane. i’m happy with this purchase.
Rating: 4 / 5
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