GL-1 Guitalele
The Yamaha GL-1 is a guitalele, also known as a 1/4 size guitar or guitar-ukulele hybrid, combining the size of an ukulele with the wider fretboard and six single nylon strings of a classical guitar.
The guitalele combines the portability of a ukulele, due to its small size, with greater chord possibilities from six strings. In January 1997, Yamaha Corporation came out with its version, the GL-1 Guitalele.
Its dimensions are: scale length 432 mm ; nut width 47.6 mm ; body length 698 mm ; body width 229 mm ; body depth 71.4 mm.
The GL-1 guitalele has an unadorned laminated spruce top, laminated meranti back and sides, nato neck and rosewood fretboard. It comes tuned ADGCEA, and is played like a guitar pitched up to “A”.
