Overview
Handcrafted by the expert luthiers in our Japan workshop, the class-leading GC42 features a solid spruce or solid American cedar top, a solid Madagascan rosewood back as well as solid Madagascan rosewood sides. It offers a carefully balanced, sweet-sounding tone with rich bass and clear highs.
Developed with knowledge gained from decades of handcrafting experience, the GC Series is the ultimate classical guitar range. Carefully crafted from hand-chosen solid tonewoods, every GC Series guitar shows all the hallmarks of a world-class instrument, thanks to our luthiers' incredible skill and attention to detail.
Whether you choose the warm sweet tone of the ceder-topped GC42C or the clear rich resonance of the spruce-topped GC42S, either guitar can provide a lifetime of exquisite tone and playability.
Finance
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Features
Top materials
All models in the GC series feature solid tops and backs that provide the characteristically rich tone of superior materials. Both spruce and cedar tops are available throughout the lineup letting you choose according to your taste in sound and appearance.
Wood selections
Wood is “alive” and must be prepared carefully over a long period of time in order to be suitable for use in an acoustic guitar. Even then, no two pieces of wood are the same. It takes a tremendous amount of skill and experience to be able to select the right woods and combinations of woods for an instrument that will bear the Yamaha name.
Neck shaping
Necks on the Grand Concert series are shaved one by one by a luthier using his sensitive hands to feel the curvature of the neck, making it fit perfectly for smoother finger movement and solid stability.
Bracing pattern
The bracing pattern, an essential element that defines the guitars tonal character and response, was devised by Antonio de Torres in the 1880s. In the new GC series, Yamaha has improved upon this shape and design delivering greater volume and response, bright and clear high-end, and rich bass.
* Bracing shape and design vary for each model.
Saddle fit & bridge
The saddle captures string vibration transferring it through the bridge and on to the top. The relationship of these three components; saddle, bridge, and top, is extremely important on a guitar. Using their advanced skills, our craftsmen fit the saddle into a groove in the bridge with a high level of surface to surface contact. The bridge is also precisely positioned and glued in on the top with a high level of accuracy.
Specs
- Top: Solid American Cedar or Solid Spruce
- Back: Solid Madagascar Rosewood
- Sides: Solid Madagascar Rosewood
- Neck: African Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Bridge: Rosewood (Bone Saddle)
- Body Depth: 94-100mm
- Nut Width: 52mm (Bone Nut)
- String Length: 650mm
- Tuners: YTM-81
- Finish: Polyester Gloss
- Standard Accessaries: Semi Hard Case
