Description
1980 Alvarez Yairi DY-45. In very good – excellent condition.. No cracks or repairs. Comes with hardshell case. Amazing full sounding instrument.
The DY-45 features a solid spruce top and mahogany back, sides and neck in a beautiful dark satin antique/tobacco finish. There is full tortoise binding on both top and back, a multi-stripe inlay rosette, a black teardrop pickguard, and a rosewood bridge with the original black abalone-dot pins. It’s a 14/20-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, 25.5” scale, headstock inlay set off by the inlaid pearl Yairi logo and features Alvarez-Yairi chrome enclosed tuners.
When Kazuo Yairi began designing and hand-crafting these guitars in the 1960’s, he was deliberately competing with Martin, Gibson and Guild for the higher end guitar market in the U.S. This DY-45 model is an example of the quality and sound which he was able to produce using the highest quality materials, the best Japanese craftsmen, and his own modifications of the best American designs. Today, the prices of the Alvarez-Yairi acoustic guitars continue to increase in value and are prized for their build quality.
