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Yamaha NTX1

Name: Yamaha NTX1
Brand: Yamaha

Yamaha · NTX1

Price: 315 EUR – 589 EUR

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A thinline crossover nylon-string built on Yamaha's APX guitar shape: slim nato body with a solid Sitka spruce top, a flatter fingerboard radius than traditional classical guitars, and an onboard preamp with tuner.

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About the Yamaha NTX1

The NTX1 applies Yamaha's slim, cutaway APX steel-string body shape to a nylon-string instrument, aimed at players transitioning from electric or steel-string guitars who find traditional classical guitar proportions and technique unfamiliar. The body is slim nato with a solid Sitka spruce top, considerably thinner than a traditional classical guitar's body depth. The nato neck carries a walnut fingerboard at a comparatively flat 600mm (23.6-inch) radius and 48mm nut - narrower and flatter than the traditional 52mm/flat-fretboard classical spec, closer to a modern steel-string's feel.

Electronics are an under-saddle pickup through Yamaha's own preamp with onboard 3-band EQ and a built-in tuner, letting the guitar go straight into a PA or amp without additional gear. The bridge combines ebony and walnut, with urea nut and saddle rather than bone.

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Sound character of the Yamaha NTX1

The slim nato body behaves tonally similar to mahogany - warm, midrange-focused, with less bass resonance than a full-depth classical - while the solid Sitka spruce top keeps the attack defined; the flatter fingerboard radius and built-in preamp with 3-band EQ point this squarely at amplified crossover playing rather than unplugged acoustic projection.

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Technical data for the Yamaha NTX1

Body	Nato, slim, solid Sitka spruce top
Neck	Nato
Fretboard	Walnut, 600mm radius
Scale length	650mm
Nut width	48mm
Pickup	Under-saddle, Yamaha preamp, 3-band EQ, tuner

Price history for the Yamaha NTX1

Cheapest seen: 315 EUR · Most expensive seen: 589 EUR

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The history of the Yamaha NTX1

Yamaha's NX/NTX series was developed to bring nylon-string tone to players and settings where a traditional classical guitar's body size and neck width would be unfamiliar or impractical, extending the company's APX steel-string design philosophy to nylon strings.