Custom Quality from Alvarez Yairi Masterworks
Alvarez-Yairi guitars represent a long and fruitful partnership with the Kani, Japan-based Yairi team of master luthiers. The Yairi Masterworks GYM70ce acoustic-electric guitar is a flawless creation with optimized features that boost presence and voice to luxurious heights. Aged tonewoods like East Indian rosewood, Sitka spruce, and ebony combine with premium FTS6 forward-shifted bracing, advanced hardware, and a unique bridge. This marriage of components equates to a guitar that’s as reliable as it is beautiful. The GYM70ce sounds great unplugged, but a contoured grand auditorium body and premium LR Baggs HiFi electronics make it a force to be reckoned with onstage. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or an intermediate player shopping for your first premium instrument, the GYM70ce’s handbuilt features are ready to amplify your creativity onstage or off.
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Seasoned tonewoods carved by hand
Each tonewood aboard the GYM70ce is a Yairi selection that complements the dreadnought shape. Rosewood back and sides give balanced midrange with focused low end and smooth highs, while a deluxe AAA Sitka spruce top ensures clear articulation and response whether you're picking mellow melodies or strumming fiercely. A smooth mahogany neck and an ebony fingerboard keep your hands at ease, even during long sessions, and there's a smooth body cutaway for enhanced access to the upper frets. Plus, the woods that go into each Alvarez-Yairi guitar are the best of the best. These curated selections are aged and seasoned from five to 15 years to ensure a lightweight instrument that looks and sounds divine.
Outstanding grand auditorium performance
Performers love the Alvarez GYM70ce’s grand auditorium body shape for three reasons! First, the GYM70ce fits like a glove, especially onstage, where a thin waist and modern weight distribution let the player’s body and hands relax. Secondly, the grand auditorium’s size and shape make for a more versatile sound. You can leap from big, bold, and powerful strums like you’d expect from a dreadnought to intricate fingerpicking that rings with the clarity of a smaller folk-style guitar. This brings us to our third perk: articulation. A tapered waist, one of the grand auditorium body style’s defining traits, reigns in booming bass and gives the GYM70ce more treble and midrange clarity along with a more focused sound — all tremendous assets onstage or in the studio for any singer/songwriter, backing band, or all-purpose player.
Forward-shifted bracing and a Direct Coupled bridge
Yairi-Alvarez blends advanced engineering with traditional luthier skills, and as such, some of the GYM70ce’s exciting features are invisible to the naked eye. Inside, the GYM70ce’s custom asymmetrical FTS6 forward-shifted bracing helps tease even levels and balanced tone across lows, mids, and highs, thus yielding a versatile sound that’s easy to control. A proprietary Direct Coupled ebony bridge puts your strings in pure communication with the spruce top, representing a huge leap from bridges past. Direct Coupling gives more contact between strings and your guitar top; this not only boosts everything from volume to sustain and response, but it also reduces long-term wear and tear on the bridge for a more durable instrument.
From Yairi with love
Alvarez-Yairi represents the driving force of Alvarez culture: obsessive attention to detail and traditional quality. The result is guitars that nourish creativity for a lifetime. However, these guitars aren’t just instruments, they’re souvenirs of music history and the emotions that shape it. Yairi's formidable team of 24 luthiers still builds instruments the traditional way — sculpting guitars humbly by hand using only the finest materials with a nearly 60-year reputation of building players exceptional instruments at a fair price.
HiFi system bridge plate sensors.LR Baggs’ HiFi amplification
The LR Baggs HiFi system is everything players want in an acoustic-electric pickup: balanced sound, non-invasive design, and an impressive resistance to feedback. The system is beyond reliable and offers 700+ hours of use on just a single 9V battery. Consisting of a HiFi preamp, two bridge plate sensors, a discrete endpin jack, and volume and tone controls, the HiFi’s magic lies in how the system preserves acoustic integrity. Just look at the bridge plate sensors, which use materials and placement that listen to acoustic movement and tonewoods without dampening natural resonance. These sensors are guests of the sound chamber, not intruders, and what you hear is your guitar’s inherent sound and nothing more.
Alvarez Yairi Masterworks GYM70ce Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:
- An elevated grand auditorium acoustic-electric guitar built from seasoned woods aged naturally for 5–15 years
- Handmade in Japan by expert Yairi luthiers
- Resonant AAA Sitka spruce top delivers peak performance and a luxury look
- Solid East Indian rosewood back and sides fuel clear, cool tone and distinct note separation
- Comfortable 1-piece mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard with 20 frets
- Smooth cutaway for easy access to upper frets
- Direct Coupled bridge allows more contact between strings and wood for pure tone and long sustain
- Gotoh tuners for exceptional tuning stability
- Premium bone nut and saddle enhance vibrational transfer from string to top
- Custom FTS6 forward-shifted bracing fuels even response across highs, mids, and lows
- LR Baggs HiFi electronics for rich amplified sound and exacting tonal control
