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Yamaha FS800 Concert Acoustic Guitar - Natural

6-string Acoustic Guitar with Spruce Top, Laminate Back and Sides, Nato Neck, and Walnut Fingerboard - Natural
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Wonderful Concert Acoustic from Yamaha

Get incredible tone and playability at an amazing price point with the Yamaha FS800 concert acoustic guitar. Featuring a solid spruce top with nato/okoume back and sides, this stellar instrument puts out incredible tone and impressive projection. The smaller concert size of the FS800 is ideal for beginning and emerging players but is also a popular choice for fingerpicking and recording. Its nato neck is capped with walnut and is incredibly comfortable and playable — great for chording and lead playing. In addition, scalloped X-bracing provides further support and tonal enhancement — a feature we at Sweetwater really appreciate.

Great feel and tone

The FS800 concert body shape is not only smaller than a traditional dreadnought but also thinner, making it ideal for young players. The crisp high end makes this stellar acoustic ideal for bluegrass, folk, country, or virtually any other style you want to explore. Over the years, fingerpickers have gravitated to the easy-on-the-fingers neck of the FS800. Recording artists also appreciate how well this acoustic translates through the mic with great midrange and high-end tone without the boomy lows that often lead to distortion.

Player Port app: the complete beginner's tool kit

With its wallet-friendly price point and extensive feature set, the FS800 is already a fantastic instrument for beginners or anyone else looking to add a top-notch acoustic to their arsenal. Yamaha is here to sweeten the pot even more, courtesy of their highly versatile Player Port app. Available for both iOS and Android devices, Player Port is a fantastic all-in-one resource for newcomers. Just download the app, register your Yamaha instrument, and gain access to tips, tricks, articles, videos, an FAQ section, and more tools catered especially to the fledgling player. Player Port even comes stock with a free built-in tuner that doesn't require an instrument registration to use, making this incredible app all the more impressive.

Yamaha FS800 Concert Acoustic Guitar Features:

  • Wonderful concert acoustic with solid spruce top for superb high and midrange tone
  • Nato neck with walnut fingerboard is instantly comfortable and playable
  • Scalloped X-bracing provides further support and tonal enhancement
  • Eye-catching cream binding and classic tortoiseshell pickguard
  • Player Port app provides users with tips, tricks, videos, and a built-in instrument tuner

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: Concert
  • Back & Sides Wood: Nato/Okoume
  • Top Wood: Solid Spruce
  • Finish: Gloss
  • Color: Natural
  • Body Bracing: X-bracing
  • Binding: Cream
  • Neck Wood: Nato
  • Neck Shape: Standard
  • Radius: 15.75"
  • Fingerboard Material: Walnut
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Dots
  • Number of Frets: 20
  • Scale Length: 25"
  • Nut Width: 1.6875"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Urea/Urea
  • Bridge Material: Rosewood or Walnut
  • Tuning Machines: Chrome Die-cast
  • Strings: D'Addario, .012-.053
  • Case Included: Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: FS800

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Rated 5/5

Yamaha FS800 is a winner!

I have only had my FS800 for a few weeks, and I'm a total novice player. I'm starting late-just turned 65. The Yamaha is a terrific, well made starter guitar. It feels solidly made and I find it very easy to tune and STAYS in tune. I did change the original strings to the Silk and Steel strings. I find them easier to fret notes and hurt my fingers less (as a total beginner). I found changing the strings very easy to do.

For the price, you just can't go wrong. Sweetwater has always been great with fair pricing, fast shipping and secure packing.
Music background: Total beginner
Rated 5/5

Very pleased

Great looks, feel, and sound. I recommend for anyone who wants to play.
Rated 5/5

Yamaha = Quality

I did a lot of research and considered almost everything before buying this guitar. So I thought I would share my findings, and maybe it will make your buying decision easier.

The first thing I considered was concert size vs. dreadnought. Although I'm a 6'4" male I still like that the concert has a smaller more comfortable body. I think the concert is a better "everyday guitar", and it's more balanced from low to high notes for fingerstyle. The dreadnought is useful if you really need extra volume for your chords, and boomier bass notes.

I briefly considered the cutaway acoustic electric models, but decided against them for a few reasons. People online said that the cutaway makes the tone more "nasal" like and less full. I could also hear the difference. Plus I noticed on the Yamaha cutaway models you are really only getting better access to 3 more frets (15 to 17) while frets 18 to 20 are still blocked by the body. I also realized that I could always add a soundhole pickup later to go electric such as the Seymour Duncan Woody HC.

Now for the big question, is there a sound difference between the 800 (this guitar) versus the 820 (mahogany) and 830 (rosewood). I watched a video on YouTube where the guy speaks Chinese, but then plays every Yamaha model 800 to 850 for both concert and dreadnoughts. I did not hear any significant difference between the spruce top 800 to 830 models. The 850 mahogany models sounded a little muffled in comparison though.

I personally really like the look of the 800, with its black binding it looks like a Martin standard series (the 18 and 21 models I think) you know, the less ornate ones. But if you prefer the looks of the 820 or 830, there's no reason not to get one. Tone wise there isn't much difference, which I think is good news for the base model 800.

I was wondering before I bought it how the walnut fretboard would be. I honestly wouldn't know it's not rosewood, the looks and feel are so similar. It's also not a cheap wood as I noticed there is a Gibson Hummingbird acoustic with walnut fretboard and walnut back and sides.

The neck is great and I love the matte finish so it's not so sticky as with a gloss finish. I also previously purchased a PRS SE Standard 24 in transparent blue from Sweetwater which has exactly the same 25 inch scale lenth, and 1.6875" nut. I wouldn't mind if the Yamaha had say a 1.75" nut for fingerstyle, but the neck is great and it was setup well.

Before this guitar I had a cheap acoustic sitting around that I wasn't really playing. It was a Rogue RD80 from a different music retailer. I went to tune it and it broke the high E string. Then I ordered a set of strings, got them all on and was fine tuning the strings when the G string broke. I figured that guitar wasn't even worth trying to fix, so I needed a guitar that wouldn't break the bank. The Yamaha FS800 was a great choice.

It seems with Yamaha you get tons of value and quality instruments at every price point. Other companies seem to charge about double to get similar quality. If in the future you (or I) want to spend a little more, Yamaha makes some all solid wood acoustics, as well as the really cool Transacoustic guitars which feature chorus and reverb effects without the need for an amplifier.

I hope my review helps you choose a guitar. Happy picking! :)
Music background: 25+ years guitarist
Rated 5/5

Sweet little guitar

I bought this guitar strictly for open 'D' tuning. I knew it was a smaller guitar than my Taylor. This guitar is a 7/8 size guitar. The Taylor scale is 25 1/2" and this guitar is 25". Also the body, across the lower bout is a full inch smaller than the Taylor and is also thinner front to back. If you're a smaller person this is a guitar that might be perfect for you. Also, because of the smaller size it doesn't have as big of sound as full size guitars. That said it has a sweet sound and, because of the shorter scale, it plays nice. Yamaha is known for quality instruments and, for the money, this is a good guitar.
Rated 5/5

Fantastic quality and playability

I recommended this model to a student to get as their first acoustic before we started lessons. When I got to try it out I was truly impressed with it right out of the box. Was very happy to report to the student that they didn't need to do any additional setup to make it great. Already was. I often play much more expensive Taylors/Martins, etc, but playability and sound on this FS800 is lacking nothing in my honest opinion. It just sounds and plays great and the concert style body is super comfortable. Now I want one for myself! Worth nothing the family was also very happy dealing with Sweetwater as well, so thank you SW!
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