Bamboo as a tonewood :)

Originally Posted by gmm55

It's hard to understand why a company that is supposed to know how to make guitars would use bamboo for the top as well. One trusts that prototypes were made, and surely those tonal problems just described manifested in them as well.

I don't think that Yamaha would fairly represent how well bamboo might perform as a tonewood.

I don't know anything about the price or background of this guitar build, but I can only imagine they thought the more bamboo they showed, the more "collector item" it would seem, resulting (in their minds) in sales regardless of the tonal qualities.

Agreed that it would have been interesting to hear one with a different top, but then again, the top is really the only thing you see when the guitar is hangin on the wall.

[gmm55]

Very good points.

[Chalz]

Originally Posted by skyver

So do you you feel you were bamboozled?

For this, I award you 1 Internet.

[tayguitars]

lol i wasnt expect so many replies for this..but i do wonder...how would it have sounded with a different top

[1OUfan]

Bamboo is a grass and not a tree wood.
Bob

[Kitchen Guitars]

Originally Posted by skyver

So do you you feel you were bamboozled?

Bamboozled by love....FZ

[Kitchen Guitars]

Originally Posted by gmm55

It's hard to understand why a company that is supposed to know how to make guitars would use bamboo for the top as well. One trusts that prototypes were made, and surely those tonal problems just described manifested in them as well.

I don't think that Yamaha would fairly represent how well bamboo might perform as a tonewood.

Its almost all in the bracing.

[Neal]

Some makers have used it to apparent good effect in 'ukulele. I have not played one yet though.

It is sustainable.