Yamaha AEX-1500 Archtop hollowbody Jazz guitar “Martin Taylor” model

Yamaha AEX-1500 Jazz guitar with hard case made in Japan.

A little toning on the gold hardware but in excellent condition.

Origianl knobs replaced with what I think are cleaner style black knobs - original knobs are included.

Luthier set up with "hybrid" jazz strings - not flatwound not roundwound - inbetween

Built in Japan from 1994 to 1999, the Yamaha AEX1500 is a single-cutaway archtop electric guitar originally designed by Yamaha and British jazz guitarist Martin Taylor. Taylor used these guitars as his touring instruments. While these models were sold in North America as the AEX1500, in Europe and the UK they were called the “Martin Taylor” model.

The Yamaha AEX1500 is built, like many other professional grade archtop electrics, with Laminated Maple for the top, back and sides. The use of laminates improves both physical stability and feedback rejection at stage volumes. The neck is Maple, with Ebony for the fingerboard and bridge and Indian Rosewood for the head plate. For hardware, the AEX1500 sports a Yamaha ‘Johnny Smith’ style humbucker plus a Yamaha piezo pickup set in the Ebony bridge. A preamp is mounted on the upper bass side with the 9v battery box near the strap pin, and the top carries a 3-way toggle switch and master Volume and Tone controls. The Yamaha tuners and trapeze tailpiece are gold-finished.

This hollowbody with a hybrid pickup array has an arched sycamore top with maple back and sides, and set-in maple neck with 20-fret ebony fingerboard. Electronics include one floating mini humbucker, one bridge piezo system with 3-band EQ, a 3-position pickup selector, master volume and master tone controls. Floating ebony and bone bridge and gold hardware complete the package.

It features a nut width of 1.73", a 25.25" scale length, and it weighs about 6.25 pounds

Features:
Archtop hollowbody
Sycamore top with maple back and sides
Set-in maple neck with 20-fret ebony fingerboard
Floating mini humbucker
Bridge piezo system with 3-band EQ
3-position pickup selector
Master volume and master tone controls
Floating ebony and bone bridge
Gold hardware

The AEX1500 allows the player to explore new expressions in a jazz-orientated repertoire. On the one hand, its neck-mounted mini-humbucker reproduces those warm and mellow traditional archtop tones; on the other, the instrument carries a bridge-loaded piezo system for reproducing realistic amplified acoustic sounds. These two signal sources can be mixed together, offering an extensive palette of voicings and providing extensive tonal tailoring courtesy of the piezo's three-band EQ and adjustable (400Hz-2kHz) midrange.