Takamine New Yorker GY51 Electro Brown Sunburst

Essential Information About the Takamine New Yorker GY51 Guitar

• New Yorker Format: immediate comfort, easy handling, and excellent balance when playing seated.


• Solid Spruce Top: precise attack, beautiful dynamics, and good sound opening over time.


• Walnut Back and Sides: clear grain, lively response, and pleasant definition on chords.


• Takamine TP-4TD Electronics: designed to transition effortlessly from home to stage.

A Takamine from the G Series: The Home Spirit Within Reach

Resulting from decades of artist feedback and recognized expertise, Takamine offers with the G series an accessible approach without sacrificing elegance or musicality. The GY51 fits this philosophy: a guitar with a refined look, a well-defined character, and designed to cover a wide playing range, from pure acoustic to amplified.

For Which Guitarist and Styles?

The Takamine GY51 targets both the demanding beginner and the intermediate guitarist seeking a compact, comfortable, and reliable folk guitar. Its New Yorker format is ideal for fingerstyle, pop, light blues, vocal accompaniment, and moderate volume sessions, while remaining responsive enough for strumming when played more aggressively.

Sound Characteristics

The solid spruce top provides clarity, projection, and precision in attack, with dynamics that finely follow right-hand nuances. The walnut back and sides promote a quick and clear response, with well-present mids and defined highs, which particularly benefit arpeggios and open chords. The more compact New Yorker format emphasizes focus and responsiveness rather than a large bass mass: a balanced, present sound that is easy to "cut through" in a mix. Finally, the Takamine TP-4TD preamp maintains this character in amplified situations for rehearsing, recording, or performing on stage.

Recommended Compatible Accessories

To stay true to the original feel and spirit, prioritize a set of steel strings 12-53 (same gauge as factory-installed strings). A capo for folk guitar (steel strings) is also suitable for quick transposition, as well as picks of various thicknesses to explore the dynamics of the New Yorker format.

Technical specifications

Category	Steel String Shaped Body Electric-Acoustic	Marker	Point
Format	New Yorker	Nbrs of frets	20
Left handed	No	Scale (mm)	630 mm
Cutaway	No	Electronics	Pré-ampli Takamine TP-4TD
Strings	Steel	Original Strings	12/53
Nbr of strings	6	Neck Type	Glued
Top	Solid Spruce	Electroacoustic	Yes
Back&Sides	Walnut	Color	Sunburst
Neck	Mahogany	Colours	Brown Sunburst
Nut Width	42.5 mm	Finishing	Glossy
Fingerboard	Laurel	Hardware	Wood

Back and sides	walnut	Width at nut	42.50 mm / 1.67"
Finish	glossy varnish	Bridge nut	compensated synthetic bone in 2 parts
Inlays	dot	Number of strings	6
Scale length	24.8" / 630 mm