Customer Reviews

Yamaha SLG100N Silent Nylon Acoustic Electric Classical Guitar

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I live in an apartment building and have had difficulty finding practice space. The Yamaha SLG guitar runs on a nine volt transitor radio battery and allows me to practice with headphones without bothering my neighbors. (Note: This guitar is not 100% silent, however it is much, much quieter than a standard guitar and as such is not likely to bother your neighbors "as much", if at all.) The unplugged sound is about as loud as picking an unplugged Fender Strat.

I would buy this guitar again for the silent feature. Although this guitar will fold up for easy carry-on, I don't think that the guitar will fit in an airplane overhead compartment due to its length.

The neck is SLICK, man. I just love the action on this guitar, and I love its size and its tone through headphones or through an amp. I bought it with low expectations, but immediately began to appreciate its many virtues.
I made a couple small changes: I put in a battery disconnect switch. I painted all the raised lettering at the various controls with white paint to make the lettering easily legible, and I padded the upper bout. None of these changes is a big deal or really affects in any way the quality (which is truly five star) of the guitar. Just cosmetics, really, although I think Yamaha should incorporate these ideas in a future version of the guitar. They should also build in an electronic tuner, since there's plenty of room to do so. (I use a Korg Chromatic Tuner CA-30 on my Silent Guitar, mounted with small succion cups and jacked in to the guitar jack.)
All in all this is just a fabulous instrument. It's perfect if you live in a house where other people are bothered by your guitar habit, because a few feet away another person won't even hear it, while you are personally enjoying big fat gorgeous tone at adequate volume. What can I say? It's my favorite guitar out of the half dozen I own.
Oh, yeah--I didn't mention the tuning machines! They are REALLY good ones! Much better than the standard tuning machines one usually finds on mass-produced guitars. There's no visible brand name on the tuners, so I suppose they are made Yamaha itself. Very good tuners!

the only downside to this guitar is it lacks treble.
but all other aspect of this guitar is so awesome!!

Do yourself a favor and get a Korg clamp on tuner if you don't have one. This is assuming your like me and need a tuner to tune anything. It makes a world of difference I was trying a tuner which is held against the sound top and it was not working. The Korg tuner is about 35 bucks and makes this an awe-sum guitar if i could just figure out where to hang it when it's not in the case ( :) ).