Listen To The NEW Yamaha FG9! NAMM2023 

Thanks John, Jake Eddy, Jordan Tice, Jeremy and the rest of your team. Always appreciate John’s infectious laughter and the guitar reviews that let the guitars do the more of the talking.

The Acoustic Shoppe has hands-down done the BEST coverage of NAMM on RU-vid this year. Wonderful work and many thanks for your efforts and for surmounting the challenging LIVE coverage!

Highly interesting and entertaining, I am a fan of the older L Series, mine is from 1993!

Yamaha are definitely going about this the right way! Getting involved with the flatpicking community to bring their guitars into the bluegrass field

I have a FG 800 fantastic guitar 🎸

Big Yamaha fan here. I have a FS5X red label which led me to an LS36, which is a hand-crafted guitar. Both are wonderful, and the LS36 is really incredible!

I'm thrilled that Yamaha is going to offer some premium handbuilt bluegrass models! I have their LL56, and have long-wished that they would create a premium mahogany dread. Until now, their best such line was the red label dreads, but while I do love them, they're not up to the level of the handmade LL's. I have an FGX3 that I chose over an FG5 based purely on sound after trialing both for a month. I felt like the FGX3 was shockingly great for the price point, whereas I was disappointed that the FG5 wasn't better to my ears. I was also disappointed that the FG5 was 'as good as it gets' along the vein of Yamaha's mahogany b&s dreads. I'm hopeful that that this new FG9 will be equivalent to the LL56 in terms of the quality of sound, playability, materials, and aesthetics. If so, I've got 2 new mahogany b&s guitars at the top of my wishlist for 2023: the Touchstone Country Boy and the FG9. Btw, Eastman makes a spectacular Adirondack/mahogany guitar with their E10D (and E10D-tc) for about 1/3 the price of the FG9. It will be interesting to see if the FG9 sounds better than the Eastman counterparts.

My first guitar was a FG180 Red Label, wishing I still had it.

Wow amazing 🤯🤤 beautiful and what a sound 🤯 that's crazy wow

That was an awesome jam

Nice fret markers. Thanks John and all

As long as yamaha's usual quality control !?!?! , I'm sold !!!!!!

I just bought a Yamaha red label FS5. I love the feel and sound of it.

I have a yamaha LL16D & Eastman E-10SS. I think both guitars are some of the best guitars on the market for the price!

49er I HAVE A FG5 LOVE IT

The big man has got it goin on!

41st subscriber LIKE; 252nd desktop TAS fan-view. My first 'good guitar' was an FG-140. It's cool they've got endorsers of the caliber of a J.P. Cormier, just to name one.

Yamaha acoustic guitars rock, and there drums rule!

Looks like Namm has turned into Yamm!

They do bring a force to recon with compared to other high end builders. Sounds like it’s fair to say almost no one will be able to buy one. 150 units in a year means good luck finding one. It really helps that you each play well. Pretty hot chops there boys!

Who was that brass group playing in the beginning of your video? I heard tubas! I play on Yamaha tubas! Love it!

Wish I was able to come to your shop. If I win the lottery ? Watch out fella's you will be my first stop over

Andy Winston is a walking encyclopedia of all things Yamaha.

Have set in a week long guitar class with jordan .

The Yamaha site shows these equipped with light gauge Elixir 80/20 strings...Is that what was on these guitars that Jake and Jordan was playing?

Big Yamaha fan! Have an FG180 (1969) FG5, FS3, and a 1983 DY73 Yairi, Japanese guitars are legendary take one over Martin taylor or Gibson any day and the price can’t be beat! May be grabbing an FG9 if I can find one.

I own an FG5...great guitar! But...$4k? Come on...

Huge Fan of Yamaha, I would almost Dare another company to compete with em ! A 335 was my first guitar in about 1977. It's been in the Pouring Rain , Picking on stage , It's been left out in the sun too long ,, and it never moved or warped ! I have my Father -in-laws Original Red Label FG- 60 , I think ! and plays great ! Love em Love em !

As good as it gets in the bracket of the best in my opinion. Just wow !!!

I didn't hear a mention of the FS version. Is it only FG or is there a smaller body build?

The original intention of the FG line was to make decent quality guitars at an affordable price. I had one of the first ones to hit the UK, a red label FG140. How much are these again?

Somewhat surprised they didn’t offer them with A.R.E.

Wow! I have an LL16D and an LL16/12 and an FG820 and one of these in mahogany would be the icing on that cake! Bank account says otherwise, but boy Id love one. Even if my playing doesnt justify any of them! 😊

Is this for blues guitars?

an FG830 and LL6M ARE among other guitars. That being said, there is something about a Yamaha acoustic guitar.

will the FG9 have a pickup ?

I can't imagine paying $4000 for a Yamaha acoustic with a bolt on neck.

didn't yamaha buy Cordoba/Guild?

I swear if I hear one more “uhm”

played the FG9 at NAMM...both models.. didnt like them as much as my LL36 ARE

I’d rather buy an HD28 and $600 worth of strings for that money.

Yeah those horns 😂. Yikes.

You play a Yamaha and then you know why.

Audio wasn't very good

This video is a disaster in soooo many ways. It's like hearing bagpipes in a school gymnasium-just raw noise.

I think that's 150,000 not 150