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A lot of charm. I love the look of the little body with its vintage toner and nice bindings. The low trade in from GC makes it worth keeping.
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Went back to Lights
But still, harder, and just did not feel right for the guitar. So after a few days, I went back to Lights.
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Wise choice. If not, you risk damaging the bridge in the long run....
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Although Yamaha did not say that, just knowing those strings were on there kept bothering me.
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Thanks. Noted.
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For its price, the CSF3M is actually a great guitar. I intend to have fewer guitars so maybe I was trying to find a reason why I should sell it. LOL. I agree that it is a great travel guitar with a gig bag that is probably better than the GS Mini’s gig bag.
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But play it back to back against my higher end guitars and it does not have the quality sound. And play it "out" hard, like in my bluegrass ensemble class, and it sounds ridiculous. But that's an unfair venue for it. It's a nice parlor guitar, especially for the money, but I am curious what a high end parlor would be like. The Taylor beige bag is kind of shapeless and ugly compared to the black Yamaha bag.
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I just bought the Eastman E1OOSS-Ltd. The Eastman is a little bigger and a few inches longer, but it sounds like a full size guitar. The Yamaha is beautiful for soft playing or for blues where distortion might be an advantage.
I had a lot of great times with the Yamaha, but the Eastman blows it away.
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My CSF3M is very pretty, quite a show piece with its vintage-toned top and fancy abalone rosette and wood binding. It is easy to hold and play, and I can feel it vibrating in my arms. It is trying its best, but the bass sound is not alive and ringing like my old Martin D and new Eastman OM.
I wonder if anyone can build that secret into a little parlor.
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The CSF3M is sounding better. Maybe this is because after 6 months of playing, and spending the summer out on a stand, it is finally opening up. It's OK if I don't play it back to back with the big guitars.
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I held on to a CSF3M for about a year. While it does outperform expectations on tone and volume for its size, I just couldn't deal with the ultra-short scale length. Since I play a number of songs with a capo on the 7th fret, I realized I simply need the scale length of at least 24.5 inches.
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The CSF3M is much smaller in length and body and weight, and narrower in neck, than a 12-fret Eastman E20-P parlor that I just bought. Although the CSF3M has 14 frets, the 12-fret Eastman parlor cannot fit into the CSF3M gig bag. The CSF3M is actually smaller than a parlor, and is called a "compact folk guitar". Very compact. The CSF3M has such a narrow and compressed neck that it is hard to play in rotation with guitars that have full size fret boards, like my Martin D-35 dread, Eastman E20-OM orchestra, and Eastman E20-P parlor. The CSF3M plays nicely, and sounds sweet, but not like a full size guitar, especially when played hard. I like it, but its days are numbered.
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I've just been giving my new Yamaha CSF3M TBS a good workout. I found it very playable right out of the box. Although I did find the G tuner to be significantly stiff to turn, compared to the others. So I may get back to them about that.
The guitar sounds great, plays great, and is very comfortably sized. About halfway between a dreadnaught and a parlor I'd say. And it looks great! This guitar to my eyes is put together big time. And the wood binding is beautiful. The rosette with one black line inlay, and an abalone inlay, is very simple, yet elegant and tasteful. The headstock's typically Yamaha plain, and the guitars finish is as good as it gets. A genuine bone nut and saddle would have been nice, instead of the plastic. If production costs are a factor, isn't there a bottomless pit of bone out there. Maybe I'm wrong. I like the very short scale. I've got fairly big hands, but I find the guitar's neck to be very comfortable and smooth. And, I found the intonation to be dead-on. Gotta love it! I don't see anyone getting a much better new guitar than this for the money. There, that's all I've got.............Dave
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I was going to get a GS Mini someday, but decided on a CSF3M instead. It shows up tomorrow...
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