And the sound has sound such as Brazilian rosewood. Side and Back of this guitar is Coral Rosewood which similar well a Brazilian rosewood. I love this guitar.Best $40 I ever spent.1974 Yairi YW600 ACOUSTIC GUITAR JAPAN VINTAGE! Description This is early 1974 Yairi YW600 ACOUSTIC GUITAR. One crack has reappeared and I know that I'm going to have to get it re-glued but, hey. I play blues these days and it stays in open tunings and I play a lot of slide on it. Then I found myself leaving my Martin at home while performing with the Yairi? Then I noticed that my Martin had been behind the couch for a year so I gave it to my great niece who was about 16 and an up and coming player and I have been playing this Yiari guitar ever since. who brought it back to life and put a pickup in it and I brought it home and discovered that I was playing it a lot more and my Martin a lot less. At the time I was playing my 1966 Martin D-18 and I kinda played it a little and then gave it to my son who was living with his mother and got it back with the top badly cracked and warped so I stuck it in my storage barn and would half play it (LOL) when I'd go out there in the barn and then pone day I said to myself, 'Hey, take this poor thing to your lutherer Joe Lathum at Pickers Supply in Fredricksburg, Va.

It seemed to play nice and the action was nice. It is a parlor style and I found it about 30 years ago in a pawn shop for $40. Like others I have no clue when my guitar was made. The apparent difference is that the PW has laminated back and sides however the internal bracing on the Sada Yairi is very light and the guitar itself is much lighter than the PW-40. I have an Aria Pro II PW-40, a 1970's Matsumoku build of some renown, which was my regular player, but this Sada Yairi blows it away. I paid what I think is a ridiculous $300 with hard shell case, and after playing it with full setup, I would expect to get no less than $750 out of it if I were willing to sell it, which I'm not. It has the thick rosewood headstock cap like a Martin, but has no logo-instead only a small 'Aria' logo on the trussrod cover plate. It set up beautifully, with a 5/64ths measure on the bass E at 12, and at the same time, saddle height above the bridge at 5/64. The bass and mid tones are amazing, and strung with custom lights, it has a touch of ringiness on the B and E strings that I love. I bought, used, an Aria dreadnought with inner label reading 'Aria by Sada Yairi' model 740 and it is a stunning copy of a D-18, and made of all solid tonewoods-mahogany back and sides spruce top.

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