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Takamine GY93E New Yorker Parlor Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Natural

Acoustic-electric Guitar with Spruce Top, 3-pc Black Walnut/Maple Back, Mahogany Neck, and Laurel Fingerboard - Natural
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A Parlor-sized Acoustic with Electronics

The Takamine GY93E New Yorker acoustic-electric guitar may be small, but it rewards you with its great sound, understated good looks, and smooth playability. Grab the fast mahogany neck, strum a few chords, and revel in the clear, full-bodied richness resonating from the diminutive parlor-style body and scalloped X-braced solid spruce top. Plug this little 6-string gem in, and experience pure amplified acoustic tone, the way it was meant to be heard. The Takamine GY93E New Yorker is a compact guitar with big attitude.

Great sound is in the details

The Takamine GY93E New Yorker acoustic-electric guitar benefits from quality tonewoods and Takamine's painstaking attention to detail. With its scalloped X-braced solid spruce top, black walnut sides, and 3-piece black walnut/maple back, the GY93E looks great and is tonally versatile enough to handle whatever playing style your musical mood dictates. And if you're playing out, the Takamine GY93E New Yorker's stage-friendly gloss finish will certainly command your audience's attention.

Takamine's TK-40D preamp system

The GY93E New Yorker sports Takamine's TK-40D preamp, giving you rich, clear-sounding amplified output — instantly. The TK-40D features a gain knob; a tuner; an active shelving EQ with bass, middle, and treble sliders; and a low battery indicator. The preamp is switched on by plugging a standard instrument cable into the endpin/strap-pin jack. Unplugging the cable turns the preamp off. The TK-40D is powered by a single 9-volt battery.

Takamine: a legacy of amazing quality, sound, and playability

The Takamine GY93E New Yorker acoustic-electric guitar benefits from a half-century of Takamine guitar-crafting knowhow. Launched in 1962 at the foot of Japan's Takamine mountains, Takamine has been designing and building acoustic guitars that are seen in the hands of some of music's biggest stars. With quality and value as guiding principles, Takamine's instruments employ the finest tonewoods and construction techniques — something you'll discover for yourself as soon as you pick up your GY93E New Yorker for the first time.

Takamine GY93E New Yorker Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

  • Parlor-style guitar with a distinctive voice
  • Highly resonant solid spruce top with scalloped X-bracing provides incredible volume and projection
  • 3-piece black walnut back with maple center produces a rich, wide-ranging sound with great definition
  • Mahogany neck with laurel fingerboard, 20 nickel-silver frets, dot inlays
  • Electronics: under-saddle pickup, TK-40D preamp with 3-band EQ and built-in tuner
  • Gold machine heads

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: New Yorker
  • Body Style: No Cutaway
  • Back & Sides Wood: Black Walnut/Quilted Maple
  • Top Wood: Solid Spruce
  • Finish: Gloss
  • Color: Natural
  • Body Bracing: Quartersawn X-bracing
  • Neck Wood: Mahogany
  • Radius: 12"
  • Fingerboard Material: Laurel
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Abalone Dots
  • Number of Frets: 20
  • Scale Length: 25.354"
  • Nut Width: 1.6875"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Synthetic Bone
  • Bridge Material: Rosewood
  • Tuning Machines: Gold die-cast with black buttons
  • Electronics: Takamine TK-40D Preamp with Built-In Tuner
  • Strings: D'Addario, .012-.053
  • Case Included: Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: TAKGY93ENAT

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Rated 5/5

I LOVE THIS GUITAR !

I have worked hard, been lucky and have been blessed to be able to own tons of guitars (well over a hundred through the years). I've played professionally since I was 14 years old - I'm 65 now. Not bragging - just laying the groundwork that I know a good guitar when I play one. This guitar has a wonderful sound to it. Not as boomy and low-end as most of my other acoustics - which I really like ! It plays like butter. Fit and finish are of a standard more akin to a much higher priced instrument. Sounds great unplugged and plugged in. It is a beautiful guitar - pictures don't do it justice. Tuners are great - although, I gave it a quick tune when it arrived and I haven't touched them since (and that includes some mild note-stretching lead work). Hats off to whoever did the setup on this at Sweetwater (I always add the setup when I order a new guitar using my favorite strings). He/She tweaked it to my specs perfectly. Thanks, as always, to my rep Charlie Davis. Always a good experience. Everyone has their own idea of what "their" guitar is - but, I would be very surprised if you ordered one of these and didn't love it.
Music background: 50 year - Lifelong Pro Player (65 years old now)
Rated 5/5

I especially like this guitar

It plays great and sounds super when plugged in. Greg Baum was amazing to work with.
Music background: Solo Acoustic Artist
Rated 5/5

Amazing guitar at amazing price point.

I looked at different parlor guitars for weeks and finally chose this one. I am so happy I did. I have yet to use the electronics but the quality of this guitar build is phenomenal, the tonewoods look amazing and the real maple binding and 3pc back make this look like a much higher end guitar. As does the split saddle. The sound unplugged is much better than I was expecting. I had read reviews where action came high and fret ends were sharp and poking over the fretboard. Not the case with this one. Out of the box action was perfect and fret ends were smooth. I'm still going to take it to get a professional set up but I'm thinking it's not gunna need much. Maybe a slight shaving of the saddle to lower action just a hair more (I love extremely low action, for most people it was perfect right out the box). I've ordered from Sweetwater maybe a hundred times and this is the first review I've left. Only thing that NEEDS to be done imo, is to condition the fretboard and bridge, they look awfully dry. Otherwise, this guitar is incredible right out of the box. Jeff Weinstein is an incredible sales rep and I really lucked out getting him as my rep. Guitar quality and customer service both 5 stars.
Music background: Played guitar off and on my entire life, started getting serious into daily playing again about 2 years ago.
Rated 5/5

We have a winner

If you like acoustics and were raised in the US, you`re probably familiar with the heavy weights out there, Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Guild but for years I had a tendency to look down on Takemine,thinking they were sub par. Well obviously my opinion was born out of ignorance so until you get your hands on one of these you dont realize Takemine makes giant killers. When you see artists like Springsteen and any number of hotshot country stars on stage playing Taks you tend to think, what am I missing here? This thing is a gem, with a bright, crisp punchy well balanced tone and beautiful action and the pictures dont lie, this guitar is drop dead gorgeous. Sure I would like to see an Ebony bridge and fretboard and maybe some better geared tuners but what you get here for your money is stunning. Initially I thought, oh no it`s made in China but Takemine must supervise production pretty well cause this thing is flawless, between that and Sweetwaters 55 point inspection, how could you possibly go wrong?
Rated 5/5

Great Guitar

This thing plays great and has an awesome tone. Very comfortable too. Customer service absolutely 5 stars. Thank you Sweetwater and thanks to Nick Grawcock.
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