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Yamaha AC5R ARE Concert Cutaway Acoustic-electric Guitar - Vintage Natural

6-string Acoustic-electric Guitar with Solid Sitka Spruce Top, Solid Rosewood Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, and Ebony Fingerboard - Vintage Natural
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Solid-top Japanese Acoustic-electric with Vintage Vibe and a Big Voice

Handmade in Japan with select tonewoods and premium build quality, Yamaha's AC5R Concert acoustic-electric guitar offers a vintage look with enhanced volume in the low-mid ranges, due to new scalloped bracing for the top and shorter bracing on the guitar's back. With a solid Sitka spruce top and solid rosewood back and sides, this concert-sized guitar sounds fantastic. It also benefits from Yamaha's A.R.E. wood torrefaction, a high-heat treatment that gives the guitar top greater stability and an aged, vintage hue. The Yamaha AC5R takes full advantage of Yamaha's unobtrusive and versatile SRT2 pickup system for recording and stage performance. You get volume, treble, and bass controls (with auto feedback reduction), and blend control allows you to balance between the piezo and SRT2 preamp, for your own distinctive tone.

Modern audio engineering with vintage style

While the Yamaha AC5R has a traditional western body cutaway, its lows and highs resonate even more fully than those generated by conventional designs, thanks to new scalloped top bracing and shorter back board bracing. These modifications allow the top and back to resonate more naturally and with greater volume in the low-mid ranges. The western cutaway gives it a classic look, but an all-new brace design definitely brings the Yamaha AC5R into the twenty-first century — and the Sweetwater showroom!

Quality woods plus innovation equal brilliant sound

Sitka spruce is highly valued for guitar tops — and for good reason. This select grade of stiff but elastic softwood is equally suited to aggressive strumming, flatpicking, and even fingerpicking styles of play. The Yamaha AC5R features a solid Sitka top that is treated at high heat to remove moisture and volatiles, resulting in greater stability and beautiful aged color. The Yamaha AC5R's solid rosewood back and sides also produce warm, balanced tones from low to high. With its traditional western cutaway and ebony fingerboard and bridge, this is a guitar that looks, plays, and sounds great.

Studio sound onstage

Normally you can best hear an acoustic guitar's subtle nuances in the studio while it's miked, but the Yamaha AC5R has Yamaha's SRT2 pickup system, which brings those wonderful, authentic sounds to the stage. With blend control, you can balance the output from the under-bridge piezo pickup with the modeling of either a Neumann U 67 large-diaphragm condenser mic or a Royer R-122 active ribbon mic, creating your own unique tone with natural clarity.

Yamaha AC5R Features:

  • 6-string concert-sized acoustic-electric with traditional western cutaway in vintage natural finish
  • Solid Sitka spruce top and solid rosewood back and sides for bright, warm tone
  • A.R.E. wood torrefaction provides greater stability and attractive aged color
  • SRT2 system allows you to blend between piezo and SRT2 preamp signals for a personalized sound
  • Handmade in Japan for unparalleled build quality and attention to detail

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: Concert Cutaway
  • Back & Sides Wood: Solid Rosewood
  • Top Wood: Solid Sitka Spruce with A.R.E. treatment
  • Finish: Gloss
  • Color: Vintage Natural
  • Body Bracing: Scalloped Bracing
  • Binding: Mahogany
  • Neck Wood: African Mahogany
  • Neck Shape: Straight Taper
  • Radius: 15.75"
  • Fingerboard Material: Ebony, rolled edges
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Snowflakes
  • Number of Frets: 20
  • Scale Length: 25.56"
  • Nut Width: 1.6875"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Tusq/Tusq
  • Bridge Material: Ebony
  • Tuning Machines: Gotoh chrome open gear
  • Electronics: System 71 SRT2 preamp with SRT piezo pickup
  • Strings: Elixir NANOWEB 80/20 Bronze Light
  • Case Included: Hardshell case
  • Manufacturer Part Number: AC5R VN

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Rated 5/5

Love it

This has become my main guitar. Beautiful, high quality finish. Sounds great.
Rated 5/5

Yamaha ACR5 A-R-E

I had these guitar for over 3 years now, wow sounds so clear and the quality of the body how it made was excellent! I highly recomend these guitar. Ray E
Rated 5/5

Yamaha AC5R

At 65 I've owned my share of acoustics. Taylor, Martin, Larrivee and more.
The challenge always was to find a guitar that I could afford that was not MPL or that was not bound by plastic.
My AC5R is beautifully bound with real wood. The rosewood is deep like a pool.
The sound can make you cry if you are a good player.
One problem is that it is so beautiful that I make sure I never even leave a finger print on it.
In reality I think that it is better than some American made acoustics.
Music background: Life long guitarist
Rated 5/5

Fantastic Guitar

I love everything about this guitar. I've had it for two years. It's great for finger-picking or banging out chords. The quality is amazing. Buttery smooth playability. As good or better than the Martins and Taylors I've played at a much more affordable price.
Rated 5/5

Very Nice

A well built guitar in Japan. Plays and sounds great ! Was hesitant about buying a guitar before actually playing it,
but it was just fine, right out of the case. Ryan was a great help. The guitar was well packaged and shipped quickly.
I will continue to buy from Sweetwater. Thanks again !
Music background: Playing since 1962.........Folk, Jazz, R&B, Bossa nova, Rock bands
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