It just feels right, whether finger picking, strumming or picking out arpeggios.
We didn't need any time to get used to it, just jumped right in and actually stopped thinking about playing a new guitar. Yairi ages their wood for decades and this has an additional few years of maturing as NoS. The craftsmanship is precise and the finish exquisite. However, this has been well stored and never demoed or stood up in a store. It comes with the original hard case does that does have a couple of marks as you can see in the photo. Reverb requires a dealer certificate to sell as brand new, rightfully so. Also there is a block under the anchoring bridge piece to avoid sound board distortion. Note the DCB, or Direct Coupled Bridge, which separates the string anchoring from the bridge signal transfer. We picked it up as new-old-stock (NOS) from another dealer and have vowed to find it a good home with a pro piker, a grinner or a casual strummer. This one has a rich rosewood back and sides with a tight grain and spruce top that gives it a balanced spectrum and the clear, rich sound that is unique to Yairi. We like to think of a wind-formed tree on top of a mountain in Japan that has the swept, balanced beauty of a ballerina on point, but is tough as nails in the face of a typhoon. It is strong without being loud, if that makes sense. You can hear every note of a chord, and fingerpicking comes through with bell like clarity, yet none of the metallic Taylor sound. They have a unique sound, all their own, which is very articulate and delicate while projecting strongly as a dreadnought should. These are often referred to as value priced Martin killers, but that's a great disservice. Alvarez is merely a distributor for the Kazuo Yairi family business. Yairi guitars are a thing unto themselves.
Block number is 0310 046, indicating the end of emperor date coding at the turn of the century and October 2003. Previously mistaken used sound hole label.
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