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Old 10-13-2019, 01:25 PM
SpruceTop SpruceTop is offline
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Originally Posted by Gitaman View Post
Sprucetop, do you think, over time, all that extra vibration would make the guitar sound better ultimately and get there quicker as well? If they could make a smaller exciter for 3/4 or 1/2 size classical, I would jump on it in a heartbeat. Btw, how long does the battery last? Thank you for the input! Hope I can convince my wife to check out some digital pianos at the GC.
As you know, per your OP title, Yamaha has a TransAcoustic Classical model. Learn more about it here: https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musi...l#product-tabs

Yamaha also has a steel-string parlor model that you can learn more about here: https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musi...l#product-tabs

Would the TransAcoustic Exciter help a guitar sound better and quicker, too, i.e., open up quicker? Maybe, but my feeling is it doesn't matter if the guitar sounds good to begin with.

The battery life per Yamaha is 10 hours of continuous usage. I don't doubt this as I've changed my batteries from the Chinese original ones to DuraCells only once after maybe about that amount of usage time. My advice is if you're playing out is to always carry spare batteries with you and it takes only a minute or less to change them to fresh ones.

Hope the above helps.

Regards,

SpruceTop (Ken)
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