Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar

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Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar

Name: Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar
Brand: Yamaha

Yamaha · CGS102A

Price: 139 EUR – 382 EUR

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A half-size classical guitar built specifically for young students: a narrower body and short 21-inch scale for small hands, with a laminate spruce top over meranti back and sides.

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About the Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar

The CGS102A is built at genuine half scale rather than as a shrunk-down adult instrument, with a narrower body width designed around comfortable handling for young children rather than adult ergonomics adapted downward. The top is laminate spruce with a gloss finish, paired with meranti back and sides and a nato neck - laminate rather than solid-wood construction throughout, appropriate for an instrument built primarily for durability and affordability during a student's early learning years.

The fingerboard and bridge are rosewood, with a 48mm nut width scaled proportionally to the smaller body and hands it's designed for. At a total length of under 34 inches, it is meaningfully more compact than a full-size classical guitar's roughly 39-inch length.

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Sound character of the Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar

The laminate spruce top and meranti back/sides don't resonate as freely or produce as much overtone complexity as solid tonewoods, giving a simpler, more closed tone that's appropriate for a half-size instrument built for small hands and beginner technique rather than concert projection.

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Technical data for the Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar

Top	Laminate spruce
Back/Sides	Meranti
Neck	Nato
Fretboard	Rosewood
Scale length	21" (half size)
Nut width	48mm

Price history for the Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar

Cheapest seen: 139 EUR · Most expensive seen: 382 EUR

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The history of the Yamaha CGS102A Student 1/2 Size Classical Guitar

Yamaha's CGS series was developed specifically to give young beginning guitarists a genuinely proportioned instrument rather than an adult classical guitar that's simply too large to play comfortably, addressing a common barrier to early guitar education.