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The Yamaha GL-1 is a
guitalele A guitalele (sometimes spelled guitarlele or guilele), also called a ukitar, or kīkū,guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
or guitar-
ukulele The ukulele ( ; from haw, ukulele , approximately ), also called Uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. The tone and volume of the instrumen ...
hybrid, combining the size of an ukulele with the wider fretboard and six single nylon strings of a
classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...
. The guitalele combines the portability of an ukulele, due to its small size, with greater chord possibilities from six strings. In January 1997,
Yamaha Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate with a very wide range of products and services. It is one of the constituents of Nikkei 225 and is the world's largest musical instrument manufacturing company. The former motorcycle div ...
came out with its version, the GL-1 Guitalele. Nikkei Weekly (December 22, 1997) ''Small guitar can be amplified.'' Section: New products, science & Technology. Page 10. Its dimensions are: scale length (nut to saddle) 432 mm (17"); nut width 47.6 mm (1"); body length 698 mm (27"); body width 229 mm (9"); body depth 71.4 mm (2"). The GL-1 guitalele has an unadorned laminated spruce top (with no rosette), laminated meranti back and sides, nato neck and rosewood fretboard. It comes tuned ADGCEA, and is played like a guitar pitched up to “A” (like a guitar with a capo on the fifth fret).


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