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Yamaha LS56 Custom ARE Concert - Natural

6-string Acoustic Guitar with Solid Spruce Top, Solid Rosewood Body, 5-ply Mahogany/Rosewood Neck, and Ebony Fingerboard - Natural
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Beautifully Designed Concert Acoustic from Yamaha

With the LS56 Custom ARE Concert from Yamaha, you get incredible design, feel, and tone in an acoustic hand-built by expert luthiers dedicated to meticulous craftsmanship. The LS56 features a solid rosewood body with a solid Engelmann spruce top for absolutely stunning tone that blends high, mid, and low tones and is full, balanced, and up front — ideal for a variety of styles. A 5-ply mahogany/rosewood neck with ebony fingerboard offers stellar playability and response. The LS56 has also been treated with Yamaha’s patented Acoustic Resonance Enhancement (ARE) technology that gives this stellar instrument an aged tone normally found in much older acoustics.

Stellar tonewood pairing

The tonewood combination of rosewood and spruce has won over countless players who have fallen in love with the incredible blending of the rich low end from rosewood and the high and midrange clarity of spruce. The resulting tone is truly something that has to be experienced, and the LS56 lets you do just that. Wide-open strums, picking, and fingerstyle approaches on this concert-style acoustic all translate beautifully through the tonewood pairing of the LS56. And the 5-ply mahogany/rosewood neck and ebony fingerboard offer the kind of feel and response that make hours of playing and exploring seem effortless.

Innovative construction to build a better guitar

The great tone and smooth playability of the LS56 ARE are due to Yamaha’s never-ending search for perfection. The recently developed ARE process gives your guitar a broken-in and aged tone. By controlling the atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity, the molecular properties of the wood are manipulated to mirror those of a guitar that has been played for years. Each L Series guitar also sports modified non-scalloped bracing that enhances the guitar’s low end. And the 5-ply mahogany/rosewood neck, after re-evaluation of string height and spacing, has a new design for improved playability. The Yamaha LS56 utilizes newly developed advances in guitar construction to bring you an amazingly playable and great-sounding instrument.

Yamaha LS56 ARE Concert Acoustic Guitar Features:

  • Concert acoustic with a solid rosewood body and solid Engelmann spruce top
  • ARE (Acoustic Resonance Enhancement) process gives the LS56 an aged, vintage tone
  • 5-ply mahogany/rosewood neck with ebony fingerboard provides great playability and response
  • Maple/abalone binding and ebony bridge enhance the rich tone of this stellar acoustic
  • Yamaha die-cast gold tuners look classic and offer rock-solid tuning

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Tech Specs

  • String Type: Steel
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: Concert
  • Back & Sides Wood: Solid Rosewood
  • Top Wood: Solid Engelman Spruce with ARE
  • Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
  • Color: Natural
  • Binding: Abalone/Maple
  • Neck Wood: 5-ply Mahogany/Rosewood
  • Neck Shape: Volute
  • Radius: 15.75"
  • Fingerboard Material: Ebony
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Abalone Snowflakes
  • Number of Frets: 20
  • Scale Length: 25.5"
  • Nut Width: 1.732"
  • Nut/Saddle Material: Bone/Bone
  • Bridge Material: Ebony
  • Tuning Machines: Yamaha Gold Die-cast
  • Strings: Yamaha, .012-.052
  • Case Included: Hardshell Case
  • Manufacturer Part Number: LS56R

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