Well the L15-A arrived today.
It's great, but the action was a little high.
It's got a big saddle, so I took it to my guitar tech
for a little shave. He always wants to do a little
fret leveling on old guitars, and this time I'm letting him.
So in a week I'll have it back with nice low action
and no buzzing.

Welcome to the forum! :)

Don't think I've ever seen an L15A. Do post pics, when you get it back.
Cheers:)

Cool! Do post pix! Well? Does it say Taiwan? :)

Yup, it does say "Made in Taiwan".
What little I played when I opened it,
even with only 5 ancient strings,
sounded great. Hopefully it will be the
flagship of my guitar collection, surpassing
my 1991 (Bozeman) Gibson J-45 which has
2 significant finish cracks in the top.
Besides that, all it has to beat is my
Yammy LLX6, which will be tough to beat.

Pix coming in about a week.
I'm pretty sure I will love the L15A but I did
spend too much to buy it, and now a little more
for the fret leveling. For what it's worth, I've bought
3 instruments on Ebay and none of them were great deals.
The only good deals I've ever gotten on guitars has been
from ... guitar shops!

Nice. My first was a new FG180 in 1969 and I love the things.

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Yamaha LL26
Yamaha LL6
Martin 000-15S

Right on Yamaha people!

My first guitar is my Yamaha FG-730S that I bought in January, 2007. It is currently tuned to DADGAD and gets played everyday.

My Yamaha CG-171SF is a beautiful sounding nylon stinged classical/flamenco guitar. I play it everyday too, and it really is starting to sound mellower.

I have to go ... Yamaha is calling ....

Enjoy :-)

The FG180 is one of the best. I call it a D18 eater

I have just come to this group myself but I can still welcome you.

I have always liked the older (Gakki) Yamahas. You can see the trouble I had with one starting with image #055 at -- http://tinyurl.com/32xsdu. I must admit, I should have replaced the frets on mine. I will this winter.

They were, and still are a good deal for the money.

Ken C.

So far I've shied away from Nippon Gakkis
because so many of them need neck resets,
which cost a fortune. I can only imagine how many
people get excited reading about them and win one
on Ebay only to find it needs a 350 dollar repair
before it can be reasonably played. I know there are
many fine ones out there, but I haven't wanted to
take a chance (yet).

Hey - now when i google "yamaha L15-A" this thread
is about the 7th entry. We're famous, guys! haha

Yammieplaya,

My only acoustic guitar at the moment is a Yamaha L-25A that I bought used in about 1984/5.

It sounds great and has always had an incredibly low action. Sometimes I'd like something with a smaller body but, given how long I've owned it (and how many dings I've put in it!), I couldn't get rid of my L-25A.

It was made in Taiwan and as with your L-15A, there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of information out there about them. I'm not sure what the differences are between the models but here are a few photos of mine:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/...2e6f8cdb9b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2081/...346a35293b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2207/...11956791c2.jpg

Basher - I think the main difference is that
the L-25A has solid jacaranda back and sides.
In other words, you've got a Brazilian Rosewood
guitar.

Believe it or not I have owned quite a few Yamaha's in my past and they worked well for me. I never did keep one for long because I would buy one, play it a while, take it on a missions trip to South America and leave it with the missionaries to play in their churches. They arent all that expensive, but for the money they are hard to beat. There are Yamaha's all over South America because of my donations to missions.

Hope yours serves you well!

http://www.vistaserv.net/ragamuffin_meet.htm

There is a link to the Yamaha acoustic web page from this AGF meeting flyer. Harrys Guitar Shop in Raleigh, NC is moving--or has moved, actually--into Yamaha in a big way. Watch, the thread here in the AGF for some upcomg news about Yamaha's sponsorship presence at the event. It is shaping uo to be.....considerable.