Robert, my only humble advice when you go shopping is to take a 24 inch straightedge along and read my "Sick Guitar" sticky. Only one way to find out!īabablowfish and Freeman, if you are still with me here, thanks for your input. I just hope I haven't built myself up for a big disappointment. Oh to have that Yamaha back! Man do I wistfully regret my actions of thirty years ago! The wife I don't want back but that Yamaha? Oh yeah. Thirty years later, I'm bitten by the music-bug again. I wasn't playing any more so i didn't need a guitar. Well, in the course of starting a career and getting married for the first time, I sold that 150 to someone. I jammed with my room mates all summer long. Yamaha (?) I'm thinking! Who the hell are they? The sales guy calmly told me it would be the best money I ever spent on a guitar. So I went to the nearest guitar shop and asked them to set me up with a good, inexpensive guitar. I was bitten by the bluegrass bug and I do mean HARD! They taught me 4 chords so I could play with them. While in college in the 1970s, I lived with some bluegrass musicians. A bone or tusq saddle is a certainty.įreeman, that is a great looking 150. As much to make it my own guitar as anything. Baba I will most likely do some modifications.
Same book but different collector's value. If so, then it is all a matter of collector's value, like the difference between a first edition and a second edition. See if the one made inTaiwan are as highly regarded. My advice would be to read those reviews and see what those who have them say.
The reviews on HC are very favorable though I have no first-hand experience with the FG-75. Some Red Label Yamahas may have more collector's value but are not necessarily better than other models which were made in Taiwan. What I mean is, some Taiwanese made models were great, some not. So where a guitar was made is not as important as where that particular model was made. And the mainland Chinese are producing some real knockouts as well. Fact is, the Taiwanese produced some truly great guitars, my FG-340 among them. Recently we have seen the same prejudice regarding guitars coming out of China. Just as everyone laughed at Yamaha when they first made guitars - "What?! Japanese making guitars? Get outta here.," so too did everyone scoff at the likelihood that the Taiwanese would ever produce anything worth playing. Yes, the Red Labels have a certain collector's appeal.
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