Alvarez Yairi GYM70CESHB Masterworks Grand Auditorium Cutaway Shadowburst

DESCRIPTION

From Alvarez: 

Grand Auditoriums like the GYM70CESHB are perfect all-round instruments, adept at both strumming and fingerpicking and ideal for a guitarist needing a guitar that can do it all. The GYM70CESHB has been carefully designed to take advantage of the Grand Auditorium’s best properties and is fitted with the LR Baggs VTC system with Element pick up and soundhole console.

Further innovation comes with the Direct Coupled Bridge. This system displays the craftsmanship with which these guitars are made. The DC Bridge means the pins actually go into the top of the guitar, taking the vibration to the heart of the soundboard and simultaneously increasing the break angle from the saddle to the top. This increased down pressure raises string tension, giving the guitar a very responsive feel and adding quality to its volume and sustain. Other presentments include hand cut and assembled pearl and abalone inlays, ivoroid binding, ebony fingerboard, ebony bridge and ebony bridge pins.

Like all Yairi Masterworks, this guitar is made from premium tonewood that has been seasoned naturally for 5 to 15 years in the perfect climate of Kani.

Kani is in the prefecture of Gifu in the hills north of Nagoya. This wood preparation and environment for building guitars is very important to the structural integrity of the instrument and helps to ensure decades of stability and performance from your Yairi.

Experiencing an Alvarez-Yairi is to experience the very passion that drives us. These are truly marquis instruments and represent what’s at the heart of the Alvarez culture: Continual improvement and attention to detail that will give our players a lifetime of musical fulfillment.

SETUP & INSPECTED BY OUR TECH TEAM

All of our guitars come with a FREE professional setup tailored to your individual tuning and string gauge preferences, if available. Our setups always include action, intonation, trem angle, and truss rod adjustments.  If needed, we smooth out fret edges, address any nut or bridge shim issues, polish the frets, and condition the fingerboard.  All work is completed by our experienced tech team who understand what today's players want from their instruments. If not otherwise requested our techs will setup each instrument to a comfortable medium/low action with minimal truss rod relief dependent on the instrument style. Please reach out after purchase if you have any specific requests about your setup.

INDIVIDUALLY PHOTOGRAPHED

Our photos are professionally lit and edited to accurately represent the instrument's true colors. We never embellish, oversaturate or misrepresent our images. We understand that purchasing a guitar online can be difficult. That is why, unless otherwise noted, Ish Guitars always individually photographs and lists each instrument with painstaking precision so that you can be confident in your purchase.

SPECS 

Cosmetic condition: B-stock condition due to a few very small dings on the top. 10% price reduction.

• Top Wood: Solid AAA Sitka Spruce
• Body Finish: Shadowburst/Gloss
• Back and Sides Wood: Solid East Indian Rosewood
• Shape: Grand Auditorium
• Neck: One piece mahogany, 50/50 Semi gloss finish, Extended neck joint
• Bridge: Ebony Direct Coupled
• Inlays: Abalone & Mother of Pearl
• Fingerboard: Ebony with 12th AA Fret Inlay
• Headstock Plate: Rosewood
• Nut and Saddle: Real Bone / Tusq™
• Tuner: Gotoh 510's Gold with Ebony Buttons
• Binding: Ivoroid
• Bridge Pins: Ebony
• Strings: D'Addario EXP16
• Accessories: Deluxe Wood Case / US Only
• Bracing Systems: Handcarved FST2 - Forward Shifted, Asymmetric Tone Bars
• Neck Joint: Dovetail, Extended Neck Joint
• Neck Meets Body: 14th Fret
• Number of Frets: 20
• Pickup / EQ: LR Baggs VTC Element System

DIMENSIONS

• Overall Length (mm): 1028
• Body Width (mm): 402
• Body Depth at Heel (mm): 97
• Body Depth at Base (mm): 118
• Scale (mm): 648
• Scale (inches): 25 1/2
• Number of Frets: 20
• Nut Width (mm): 44
• Depth: 1st Fret 0.82" / 10th Fret 0.98"
• Nut Width (inches): 1 23/32