Yamaha NTX1 NT Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Nylon-String Classical Guitar, Natural

Fantastic guitar! After locally purchasing two different Cordobas and having to return them I decided to give this one a try. Great quality, great sound and resonance, great action out of the box and quick shipping!

I had been singing and playing guitar my whole life, it is my favorite pastime. I was a songwriter some decades ago; since then, my guitar skills became somewhat stagnant, and I decided to come back to the hobby, leaning new styles and do some recording. I mostly play arpeggio/fingerstyle.On a whim, I bought Yamaha NTX1 when it went on sale here. I liked the guitar, looks nice, plays easy, the tone is balanced, I can use it for recording provided the mic is added because the installed pickup is basic piezo. The only thing I do not like is how low it is as an acoustic. I am not a guitar guru, I have only 2 guitars to compare to -- both nylon -- the venerable classic Resonata (made in DDR in the 70s, all layered wood but still sounds ok), and also classic all solid wood one made by Sergio Zepeda from early 00s in Nicaragua. This one is nice instrument. Both are way better acoustically compared to the NCX, especially the Zepeda's. I compared the guitars, and it looks like the top wood of Yamaha is way too thick (3.5mm vs 2mm for the others). It is instantly noticeable when one taps under the bridge: NCX1 sound is lower/dull, other two are the same and way higher/crispier tone. So, I am pondering sending it back and buying a different crossover. NCX5 may be, or another brand altogether. Not this time Yamaha!

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I usually don't write reviews but I'm not at all happy with Yamaha. I bought this guitar for a discount presented "As New." It looked new out of the box, had the original tag on it, and at first I was delighted. A classical guitar with cutaway, built in tuner, piezo pickup. I was all in. Just what I wanted.When I went to tune it, I soon discovered that it was totally missing the G string tuning peg and that the B string peg was very bent. Try playing anything when you can't tune one string! (I tried it out by tuning the other strings to the G string - a short -term solution, but I got to know that I like the guitar and wanted it fixed.)I called Yamaha support Saturday - they said that I had to call the Yamaha guitar support. I had to wait until Monday to call. When I called them, they told me that they wouldn't repair it (even though the Yamaha store sold it to me) and my only recourse was to return it to Amazon. A new one was around $150 more.I was ticked off. This guitar was just what I wanted at the price I wanted. It was supposed to be "AS NEW" except it wasn't. They wouldn't stand behind their own product. They misrepresented this guitar and I've had to spend hours on the phone, going through the return process with Amazon, packaging it, driving an hour to the UPS drop off site, and waiting on line. My time for THEIR lie.Their lack of integrity in fixing what they'd f'd up resulting in me having to take way too much of my time to fix it is seriously aggravating. They misrepresented their item and I spent hours trying to get what I wanted. I am not a happy customer!Beware buying from the Amazon Yamaha store. No integrity.

First, I bought this guitar through Amazon but arrived damaged so I returned it but I bought another one at at local retailer which I had now for over a year. I play both acoustic steel string and classical guitar and this is a great combination. It has good sound on it's own but spectacular when amplified. For the price you will not be disappointed.

Yamaha is generally known for making quality guitars, many of them at very reasonable price points, and this is certainly one of them. Workmanship is very clean, excellent fretwork. Quality hardware. The guitar plays well, intonates well, and amplifies well.The unplugged sound is not bad, certainly less volume than a full bodied classical guitar, but more than enough for unamplified practice. Plugged in, the pickup system is not "quacky," the guitar is quite feedback resistant, and the tone can be adjusted enough to work in a variety of situations. A very good value in a nylon "crossover" style guitar.

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I have been playing guitar for 45 years. In that time, I have played a number of classical "crossover" nylon-string guitars. I was hoping that this would be on a par with the Ovation Country Artist I had in the '70s, but it's not. The acoustic sound is both very low (much quieter than the Yamaha C40 I also own) and surprisingly muddy. I attribute some of this to the basic thin-body design (I'm now on the hunt for a full-classical body with a narrow 14-fret neck), but I don't know if that's the only thing that matters. As an electric, it's pretty nice, but since most of my playing is acoustic, it has to go back.