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Grand Auditorium Versatility Crossed with Flamed Maple Elegance





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Handcrafted in Alvarez Yairi’s tradition of acoustic excellence, the GYM80ce acoustic-electric guitar offers a marvelous maple-clad spin on the Grand Auditorium platform. Compared to mahogany or rosewood, this guitar’s maple back and sides deliver a wonderfully crisp tonality that’s well balanced across all six strings, with a slight bump in the midrange frequencies. Next, the AAA Sitka spruce top emboldens the maple body with a voluminous projection and remarkably sensitive response. You also get an idiosyncratic blend of old and new with the mahogany neck’s soft “V” to “C” profile and deep body cutaway, granting unrestrained across the breadth of the ebony fingerboard. And while the Alvarez Yairi GYM80ce’s unplugged voice represents the pinnacle of Grand Auditorium nuance and depth, the LR Baggs HiFi pickup system makes it a breeze to hit the stage with singing acoustic-electric tones.





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Bold and balanced-sounding flame maple body





For the acoustic guitarist who’s always after the clearest and most balanced tone possible, maple is undoubtedly the tonewood of choice. As such, the maple-bodied Yairi GYM80ce boasts an exceptionally even-keeled character from the open position on the low E to the highest reaches of this guitar’s comfortable cutaway. A AAA Sitka spruce top completes the Yairi GYM80ce’s with a sweet and responsive character, all adding up to a seriously versatile Grand Auditorium that’s equally at home dishing out singer/songwriter accompaniment, simple strumming, or complex and melodic fingerstyle.





Soft “V” to “C” neck profile





While most modern manufacturers have switched over to skinny “C”-shaped necks over the years, the substantial heft of a classic “V” profile is a perennial favorite of Sweetwater’s strummers! To merge the best of both old and new, Alvarez designed the compound soft “V” to “C” neck profile that starts off chunky but thins out as you slide up the neck. For guitarists who cover a wide variety of sonic styles, this shape delivers incredible flexibility, allowing for both slick upper-register bends and licks, while still comfortably filling out your grip at the base of the guitar’s neck.





LR Baggs’ HiFi amplification





The LR Baggs HiFi system is everything players want in an acoustic-electric pickup: balanced sound, non-invasive design, and an impressive resistance to feedback. The system is beyond reliable and offers 700 hours of use on just a single 9V battery. Consisting of a HiFi preamp, two bridge plate sensors, a discrete endpin jack, and volume and tone controls, the HiFi’s magic lies in how the system preserves acoustic integrity. Just look at the bridge plate sensors, which use materials and placement that listen to acoustic movement and tonewoods without dampening natural resonance. These sensors are guests of the sound chamber, not intruders, and what you hear is your guitar’s inherent sound and nothing more.





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Alvarez-Yairi represents the driving force of Alvarez culture: obsessive attention to detail and traditional quality. The result is guitars that nourish creativity for a lifetime. However, these guitars aren’t just instruments, they’re souvenirs of music history and the emotions that shape it. Yairi's formidable team of 24 luthiers still builds instruments the traditional way ? sculpting guitars humbly by hand using only the finest materials with a nearly 60-year reputation of building players exceptional instruments at a fair price.





Alvarez Yairi GYM80ce Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Handcrafted by the Alvarez-Yairi team’s finest luthiers in Japan


Versatile Grand Auditorium body shape is equally fit for fingerstyle and strumming duties


AAA Sitka spruce top delivers excellent projection and a remarkable dynamic range


Flamed maple back and sides produce a clear, crisp, and balanced tone across the entire fingerboard, with a slightly boosted midrange character


FST6 forward-shifted spruce bracing maximizes every bit of resonance and response from the top


Soft “V” to “C” mahogany neck topped with a 15.75-inch-radius ebony fingerboard


Direct coupled ebony bridge enhances sustain and all but eliminates common problems such as bridge lifting


LR Baggs HiFi electronics system delivers an authentic plugged-in re-creation of your acoustic tone


Rock-solid Gotoh 510 tuners