| | |  | Acoustic Guitars | Home » » » Yamaha FG JR1 3/4 Size Acoustic Guitar with Gig Bag | | | | | | | 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. JR1 Great as a travel guitar First Guitar Ideal first guitar for a child Easy Easy and fun to play. | | | Features: | |
• 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
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| 4.75 pounds | | Package Length:
| 36.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 16.0 inches | | Package Height:
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| 5.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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55 of 56 found the following review helpful:
Good Value in a Smaller GuitarDec 16, 2009
By M. J. Keyes
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.
28 of 29 found the following review helpful:
 Great guitarApr 18, 2008
By J. Smith
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.
23 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Great beginner's GuitarOct 25, 2008
By J. Minton Hughes
Great beginner's guitar, good tonality, easy to tune, holds tune well. Great size for my 9 year old daughter.
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Good quality starter guitar for a child!Mar 14, 2009
By Dr Bob ZzZ
"Dr Bob ZzZ"
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.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Great guitarJul 29, 2011
By christian w. hughes
I've been playing for nearly 50 years, and have played perhaps 200 guitars and owned a dozen or more. I'm going on a month-long business trip and wanted to find something I could carry on the plane. I went to Guitar Center and played every sub-size guitar they had, expecting to spend something in the $3 - $400 range, and was astonished to find that this guitar had the best tone and playability of any - at a discounted price of $129. I've read all the other reviews here, and think that most share my view. The handful of complaints can be chalked up to some combination of:
- Unreasonable expectations or non-guitarists (e.g., "shouldn't have steel strings for a kid," which opinion you may or may not share, but you can just restring)
- Individual instrument may have been defective (one observation of finish issues) or required some adjustment (buzzing in one review).
My STRONG recommendation for anyone is to go to a large guitar store and play everything they've got in the size range. Then you'll know what's available in the category and, critically (since there is probably a LOT more quality variation in a $100 guitar than a $3,000 guitar) be able to play the exact instrument you're actually going to purchase.
I couldn't believe that the guitar I bought could be produced and sold at this price.
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