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Key Features
Comfortable, affordable, and equipped with a solid top. The Yamaha FS820 offers a sound that only gets better with age. The guitar is easy on the bank balance, the ears, and the eyes. Featuring an eye-catching ruby red finish and classic tortoiseshell patterned pickguard, the FS820 looks just as beautiful as it sounds.
A solid spruce top paired with mahogany back and sides delivers a classic acoustic sound with plenty of warmth and versatility. Ideal for a wide range of genres and playing styles, the FS820 is perfect for learning, improving, and developing technique. Setup to Yamaha's standards of excellence, you receive great playability and tone. A long-lasting legacy that continues to power many musical journeys. Start yours today.
Product Ref: 123601
The FS Series from Yamaha offer more compact acoustics to provide comfort. With their short scale and auditorium bodies, the guitars deliver a tight sound that provides perfect articulation. This makes the FS Series ideal for intricate playing styles. Also, the FS Series is designed after their flagship LS models whilst borrowing specifications from their legendary FG series. An excellent and exciting range of guitars with affordable price tags.
A Yamaha Acoustic designed to deliver a classic acoustic sound at an affordable price. The FS820 features a solid top, this ensures the guitar's tone will open up over time. Resulting in a sound that only gets better with age and the more it's played. Its solid top is made from spruce, which delivers a broad dynamic range with plenty of versatility to play through a wide variety of genres and techniques. In addition, the beautiful solid top is paired with mahogany back and sides, adding a pleasing appearance with a resonant tonality. Furthermore, mahogany also adds warmth whilst producing punchy, woody tones. This pleasing mixture of tonewoods is well-known among guitarists as the 'classic' acoustic sound. Perfect for numerous genres and playing styles.
Yamaha's small body is similar in size to concert guitars. Its compact size and slimmed down body width makes the guitar comfortable to play for younger and novice players. Additionally, its smaller size is ideal for female players craving an affordable and comfortable acoustic with a solid top. Intermediate fingerpicking players are also certain to adore the comfort on offer as well as the stunning response produces when playing lighter picking styles.
The FS820 features Yamaha's newly designed bracing. An improved scalloped bracing pattern allows the guitar to produces a richer, louder sound with better projection. Bracing reinforces the guitar's structure and prevents it from collapsing under string tension. Scalloped bracing enables the guitar top to vibrate more freely, enhancing the guitars tone and adding further amounts of resonance and sustain.
Constructed from nato, the FS820's neck offers a quick and dynamic response with added warmth and balance. The neck is coupled with a rosewood fingerboard that adds warmth and clarity to the guitar's overall sound whilst offering a smooth platform for the left hand.