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Originally Posted by TiffanyGuitar
I went ahead and bought it. I will post when it arrives. Based on seller's description, it sounds like it has spent most of its life in its case and very lightly played.
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How is your new CY118? I remember playing a few back in the mid-1990s and liked them a lot! I was leaning towards buying one when I found a new, beautiful CY140 that sounded punchy, loud, tight, and responsive. (I really liked the Ramirez headstock too, since that was as close to owning a 1A as I was going to get in those days!) So I traded in my beloved Takamine TC132SC for the CY140 and lived, breathed, and slept that guitar until an ulnar nerve issue forced me to give up my 4-6 hour daily classical practice, and gigging an hour or two's worth of standard repetiore here and there. So I traded the CY140 off on a matching black pair of Fender strat/tele and went back to standing and playing in rock and country bands, because standing and playing electrics with a relaxed, "hanging" right arm was not part of my entire right arm going numb issue. Years later I found out that a crushed C6 neck disc was tge real cause of my issue. Wish I'd have known that back then! Would probably still be gigging classical repetoire.
Anyways... until years later when I got back into nylon strings and bought a $4K Breedlove Masterclass... the CY140 was by far the nicest classical that I've ever had. It was good enough to play churches and recital or wedding halls without amplifivation. And even today... many nice nylon strung guitars later... I still think about tracking down another CY140, a CY118, and a CY127 for a sweet little Yairi collection. Those were the three guitars that I drooled over every day in a Yairri sales brochure (which I still have today in worn-out, aged condition). Would buy or trade happily into another Yairi classical if I stumbled on another one. I rank the CY series right there with any other well-made, mass-produced instrument.