Yamaha FG-830
The Yamaha FG-830 is a current-production dreadnought from the post-2016 era, with a solid spruce top, rosewood back and sides, and a nato neck. The solid spruce top delivers strong attack and well-defined sound, with rich volume on strumming and clear, articulate tones on fingerpicking. The rosewood back and sides extend the response across the full frequency range with deeper, more balanced character than the mahogany-back FG-820 directly below it in the line. User accounts suggest the guitar serves well across multiple years of regular play and adapts to fingerstyle approaches including travis picking, country, and blues. No label era details are currently documented for this model, and no specific players have been formally associated with it.
- Years produced
- 2016–2017
- Body type
- 6 String Jumbo
- Top
- Spruce, Solid
- Back & sides
- Rosewood
- Neck
- Nato
- Fingerboard
- Rosewood
- Original MSRP
- $495
- Current market
- $345–$498.32 (3 listings)