• Reviews around action (4.26 of 5)

    Yamaha CG172SF Nylon String Flamenco Guitar

    • Right out of the box the action was perfect and the tone has a clarity that no other Flamenco I played for under $7,000 had
    • He told me that proper flamenco guitar action is about 2mm (2mm is roughly 1/16") at about from the top of 12th fret to bottom of 6th string.
    • And the string tension on the classicals is harder and the action higher so doing all my rasgueados (or 'rasgueos' in Andalusian), my pulgars and picados is much harder than it needs to be when not playing on a true Flamenco guitar.
    • The action is good but could be a bit lower - this is easily fixable
    • Action the way flamenco guitars coming out of Spain these days are like according to a respected flamenco luthiers in Chicagoland
    • Action very good out of the box - I haven't measured but it is definitely flamenco and lower than my other classical guitars
    • it has a lower action so you're not breaking your fingertips
    • Just lower the action on the C5 and forget about it being a cedar top