Listed at $65.oo new at the time and featured the exclusive Yamaha dynamic bracing system.theres that word dynamic again.I have read the Dynamic guitar bracing system was patented by Mr. There s a pic of an FG-75 taken from an English catalog in one of my books, they say it has a maple body and spruce top, nato neck with rosewood f/board, and rosewood bridge. Like I said once they perfected the laminating process, tons of models came out over the years. With the Dynamics the labels went through many changes and finding a ballpark year depends on the label. My books have a very good list of years when certain models were introduced but they don`t mention when they ended. Every Yamaha acoustic I have says where it was made on the label.can`t say they all do `cause I haven`t seen em all yet.they don`t all say the country but if it says Hamamatsu I know it`s in s usually not difficult finding out where they were made unless the label is missing. They did not shift all manufacturing to Taiwan and they still make acoustics in Japan today. There was more than likely some overlap of label colors, as for serials my oldest Dynamic has a 4 digit number. Best we can do is exchange the data we have from our guitars and try to build some kind of base from there. I have some older MIJ electrics too and record keeping does not seem to have been a priority even in the 80s. I have a couple of books with extensive articles on Yamaha and even the Japanese authors have difficulty getting data or finding people who are still around that were involved with those 50s and 60s models. Don`t let the 5 digit serial fool you, by the 70s Yamaha had been building acoustics for a couple of decades.maybe more nobody really knows for sure. It`s not easy getting precise dates for early Yamahas, and my earliest Dynamic goes back to the mid 50s from what I`ve been told on line here, we may have to be satisfied with ballpark dates for em and once the laminate floodgates were opened, there were so many models that it`s hard to keep track of all of them. I have an early 70s FG-175 thats pretty nice. as well as lebels that were tan.but there were only two FG models at first.
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Yamaha had a whole bunch of labels, the very first laminates to follow the S series Dynamics had light green labels, which may appear to be tan these days. Anyhow, I really do love this little guitar, and am curious to find out more about it.
The guitar itself sounds great, just like in the reviews. I cleaned it up, and amazingly it looks like it has hardly ever been played, darn near perfect shape, action is low, even the pickguard looks nearly new. The guitar looks like all the other FG 75's i've seen (online photos), and when I got it it was covered in a layer of dust. Also, as far as the serial number inside the sound hole, the number is only 5 digits. My guitar has a tan label, and it says "Nippon Gakki", and it also says "made in Japan". Okay, here is something I haven't been able to find info about. I've also read where some red labels weren't made in Japan, but in Taiwan. I've read about red labels, tan labels, and how production was shifted to Taiwan in 1972 and red labels were changed to tan. I've read where they were manufactured from 1968 thru 1974.
I just picked up a vintage FG 75, and i am having a tough time figuring out when it was made.
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