Yamaha 310

I bought this guitar to take with me on trips, it came with some nice accessoires: a strap, extra strings (yamaha folk strings), a blue plastic capo that doesn't really work, a gigbag that fell apart after a year, a stringwinder, a pitchflute and some nice picks. They are nice extras but nothing more than that. The guitar is a 20-fret natural dreadnought and looks like a standard guitar with no extra stuff. It's functional and well made.

I play mostly Neil Young songs and this guitar does a good job with that. The sound is nice and gentle, but I can't call it "rich". Of course a real rich sound can't be expected from such a cheap guitar.

For an example of what this guitar sounds like you can listen to this home recording: http://www.hayovanreek.nl/files/music/interstate.mp3

The setup was good when I bought this guitar. It had a little bit of buzzing going on the frets at first but that went away when the strings got a little older. It actually plays a bit lighter than my martin d28.

I've had this guitar since april 2004 and took it with me on many trips and it has seen many campfires and roads. Tho it made the sound a bit thinner than it used to be the guitar still sounds great (also keeping in mind I never changed strings) and the intonation is still good. I personally would not use this guitar for gigging, but that's not what I bought it for.

I never had any problems with this guitar.

For this price this is probably one of the best guitars you can get. It sounds and plays good and it's pretty durable too. I originally bought it just as a travelguitar, but it soon replaced my other guitar untill I got a martin. Since then it has served as a guitar for lower tunings.

i bought this guitar for my 15th birthday and i learned guitar with it and it was a godsend for me befor i moved on to the electrics especially the very rare yamaha sf1000. nice colour of body and its 1 guitar that can take a beating.

when you tune this guitar you wont need to tune it again for a very long time. it is better played with plectrum as the sound is better.although the strap pegs are somewhat to be desired.

i purchased this guitar tuned and no flaws but the outer body is a bit weak but can certainly take a bruising.

i still have and play this guitar to this day and im sure co-owners will agree it is a more enjoyable relaxed playng guitar.

the company were not bad.

i also own a very rare electric yamaha sf 1000 which is the forgotten guitar of the yamaha company.Most guitarist will agree that you get pretty attached to your first guitar so im sure i will have the 310 for years to come .

Very basic low end, laminated acoustic guitar. It's got a soundhole, strings and frets. That's really all you need to make music.

For the price of this guitar, you would be hard pressed to find better volume and tone.

The playability of this guitar is as good as any guitar at 3 or 4x's the price

My 12 yr old nephew has taken 3 years of lessons on this guitar. I don't think there is one piece of furniture he hasn't whacked the guitar off of. The guitar looks like it has been in a war and yet in 10 years it has never needed and professional work.
Again, for the price, I don't think you'll find anything out there that would put up with the abuse that this guitar has.

I have been playing guitar for about 20yrs. I have a Gibson J-100 Super Jumbo an American Strat and a variety of lesser known acoustic and Electric guitars. If I was starting all over again and had to buy my first guitar on a limited amount of money, I would buy a Yamaha 310 in a heartbeat.

Sometime 2000 - 2002. Made in Indonesia. 20 Frets. To say it is a laminated guitar would be a compliment. Lets call it stiff cardboard glued together to give it wood like qualities. The neck is decent, so is the fretboard. It is a full, standard size guitar. It has a standard pin type mahogony bridge with plastic saddle and a plasitc nut. The tuners are standard grover-clones.

Django Reinhart, Lightining Hopkins, or Eric Clapton could make this guitar sing, otherwise I don't think it was actually designed to be played. It was designed to be purchased by someone's parent -- and given as a christmas present -- to live its life in a closet. It sounds exactly perfect for that.

It has poor quality materials, a poorly cut nut, a plastic saddle with a visible seam, and obviously completely glued using epoxy (therefore absolutely no chance of ever repairing it if it fails.) A cheap guitar using the cheapest materials available.

But it does have a truss rod. And it does not actually cause physical pain to play it -- which is not true of all guitars.

This would be an excellent guitar to smash on stage. You would not have to worry about splinters.

It probably will never fall apart -- although you may wish it would.

The most egredious flaw is that this guitar carries the Yamaha name. Shame on you Yamaha -- you used to be a great company.

I have been playing for close to thirty years, and see it as my mission to steer people away from drek like this. Buy a good used guitar instead. Don't buy this guitar new. Don't buy it for your kid new. Only buy it if you can't afford anything else -- or if you want to part it out (what I am going to do with it.) Tuners: $20. Tuner Bushings: $7. Frets: $5 Bridge: $10. Bridge Pins and end pin: $3.50 = $45

Made in Indonesia, great starter guitar. Good sound and tone, especially for a guitar of its price range. Includes tuner, extra strings, picks, polish, polishing cloth, starp, softshell case. Nice finish, 20 frets, standard size dreadnaught.

Very good sound, althought the strings that come with the guitar were far too thin for me, gave it a lighter and airyier sound. A new set of strings helped the sound out greatly

Only problem is that the bridge is quite high, had to be filed down by about 1/8 inch

Dependable, very good finish, will last many years

I've been playing about 2 years, compared to other cheaper acoustics this guitar is a best buy. Great starter giutar