An Excellent Starter Guitar
There’s already enough to love about the Yamaha FG series. Based on the popular FG800, the FG800J offers a brand-new folk body shape and a lovely solid spruce top, yielding a more balanced and lively sonic palette that’s perfect for live and recording applications. Its back and sides are made from laminated nato and mahogany, imbuing the FG800J with a warm, full-bodied tone and striking good looks. Meanwhile, the satin-finished nato neck gives it comfortable playability. Whether for learning your first chord shapes, strumming some tunes, or a trusty couch companion, the FG800J is the ideal tool for beginners.
An FG800 with a bite
The entry-level Yamaha FG800 rocked the guitar-building world with its craftsmanship and smart use of tonewoods. The FG800J takes this design further, with a comfortable tapered neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Acoustic players have been fans of the Yamaha FG series for years, and for the price, consider it one of the better values on the market.
Solid spruce top and folk body style
An all-new folk body shape makes the FG800J even more balanced on top of its warm mahogany palette. This gives the solid spruce top — a feature normally reserved for professional instruments — a softer foundation and expressive dynamic range for punchy chords, sweet-sounding leads, and lively riffing.
Yamaha FG: the best-selling acoustic guitar series in the world
It’s not hard to see why Yamaha’s FG series is a world best seller: the comfortable bodies, professional-grade tonewoods, and fast-playing necks make these acoustics great first instruments for beginners, and solid seconds for seasoned players who need an extra acoustic for the stage or to play around the house.