Thin Air

I've been making music for a long time. And my early memories of music come from home, when I was three or four, sitting by my older sister when she was performing Beethoven's sad "Sonata No 8. Patética", and feeling the vibrations of the black vertical piano, the smell of the wood, a Yamaha. And would it be a coincidence of life or a mathematical fact of the Universe but my favorite bass is my black Yamaha RBX260 that I just equipped with DiMarzio's Model P. I've seen Yamaha pianos played in very fancy places and Yamaha guitars in places not as civilized. Yamaha's instruments are hard-working horses and yet deliver delicate sounds and aural textures. From a flute to a drum set. I really dig Yamaha's stuff.

Yamaha just developed a new technology, named Alternative Internal Resonance (A.I.R.). Classically it has been thought that a solid body guitar will sound better if the body wood is hard and heavy, and this is where the AIR alternative comes in. The AIR technology uses a lightweight wood core literally sandwiched between a harder, heavier wood on both the front and back of the guitar's body. Special sound tubes pass through the body so that string vibrations normally resonating only the guitar's top are transmitted through the entire body (like the sound post of a violin). Therefore, the entire body structure vibrates and the tone is shaped by the hard top and back. AIR construction creates a full, powerful, and resonant tone with distinctive presence and body that are truly unique. It's like having a hollow body guitar filled with very very dense fluid. C'mon, simple, basic physics, why did not anybody think of this before?

This guitar comes with two special humbuckers, and get a load of this, it doesn't have tone controls; you only control your sound by selecting the blend of the pickups, done with a special knob of graphic color selection (like a color light), not a common switch. Pure minimalism and elegance. It also comes with a special bridge and hardware. Very futuristic lined accents and headstock, like watching a 60's movies with people colonizing the moon in the 80's. You may buy this white beauty for no more than 500usd. So beautiful, so gorgeous. Breathtaking. A cool breeze. I'm droping saliva uncontrollably from the mouth (a.k.a. drooling).