The white labels can be found as Nippon Gakki:Īlso somewhere around 1972 while starting making guitars in Taiwan the red label lost the Nippon Gakki:Īfter that the black label was introduced. I’m not sure about the exact year but around 1971 – 1972 (Yamaha mentiones 1972 as the start of “overseas” production) Yamaha changed to a white label for the Japanese market and kept the red label for the export markets. These green labels can be found on some 19 FG’s.ĭespite the green labels the Nippon Gakki red label is considered as the start of the FG series. Yamaha mentiones november 1966 as the starting point of the FG series. These green labels can be found on the very early FG’s. Until now I’ve only seen such a green label on some FG150’s, FG300’s and some FG180’s. But as far as we’re talking Yamaha vintage FG’s there is a lot of information just by looking at the label (the following contains some pics from internet).īefore the most famous red label Nippon Gakki label was introduced Yamaha used for a very short period a “green” label. I once heard a very wise man say: “Talking about labels sounds like a Johnnie Walker ad”.
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