Yamaha Fs9 R

Yamaha FS9 R Adirondack Spruce All-Solid Acoustic Guitar

The Yamaha FS9 R offers powerful projection, clear highs, and exceptional detail, making it especially well suited for vocal accompaniment. Its refined balance of strength and sensitivity gives players both expressive nuance and impressive presence.

Built with a solid Adirondack spruce top and specially tapered body edges, the FS9 R combines structural strength with enhanced resonance, allowing the body to vibrate more efficiently. This results in strong volume, quick response, and excellent tonal clarity.

Its newly designed neck joint combines bolt-on and glued construction to improve body resonance while also enhancing serviceability. The neck-to-body connection is finished with great precision for both performance and stability.

The design also reflects understated Japanese aesthetics, with fingerboard inlays inspired by traditional Kumiki woodworking, along with rope-pattern detailing on the soundhole inlay and body purfling.

In developing the FG/FS9 series, Yamaha combined advanced acoustics research and 3D structural measurement technology with the craftsmanship of skilled luthiers in its custom shop, creating an instrument that blends science and traditional guitar making.

General Specifications

Color: Natural
Body Shape: FS Concert Style
Scale Length: 634 mm (25")
Body Length: 497 mm (19 9/16")
Total Length: 1022 mm (40 1/4")
Body Width: 380 mm (14 15/16")
Body Depth: 90–115 mm (3 9/16" – 4 1/2")
Nut Width: 44 mm (1 3/4")
String Spacing: 11.0 mm

Top Material: Solid Adirondack Spruce
Back Material: Solid Indian Rosewood
Side Material: Solid Indian Rosewood
Neck Material: Mahogany
Fingerboard Material: Ebony
Fingerboard Radius: R400 mm (15 3/4")
Bridge Material: Ebony
Nut Material: Bone
Saddle Material: Bone
Bridge Pins: Ebony

Tuners: Gotoh SXN510 Cosmo Black
Body Binding: Ebony with Wooden Rope-Pattern Purfling
Soundhole Inlay: Wooden Rope Pattern
Pickguard: Tortoise Pattern

Body Finish: Gloss (Nitrocellulose Lacquer)
Neck Finish: Semi-Gloss (Polyurethane)

Electronics: None
Controls: None
Connections: None

Strings: Elixir NANOWEB 80/20 Bronze Light
Accessories: Hex Wrench / Certification Paper
Case: Hardshell Case