Yamaha SLG100N Silent Nylon String Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Natural

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Product Features

• Practice with headphones, yet enjoy the realistic sounds of an acoustic instrument
• Lightweight composite body
• Mahogany neck
• Rosewood fingerboard
• Breaks down quickly for easy transport

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002GZXZE
• Item model number: SLG100N
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,034 in Musical Instruments (See Bestsellers in Musical Instruments)

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Product Description

Product Description

The Silent Guitar lets you practice with headphones, yet enjoy the realistic sounds of an acoustic instrument. The nylon-stringed SLGS100N features a lightweight composite body, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard, and breaks down quickly to fit into included gig bag for easy transport. Electronics include piezo in-bridge pickups and an internal DSP which reproduces the natural-sounding reverb of a user-selected acoustic space. Has mini-stereo inputs for plugging in a CD player for play-along. Interfaces with the AG Stomp.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yamaha SLG Guitar, July 9, 2008

By	Stanley K. Tanaka (california) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love my SLG100N Yamaha Silent Guitar!, February 28, 2009

By	Eric Whitney (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!