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Feature-packed Alvarez-Yairi Masterworks guitars represent a balance of workhorse performance and crafted aesthetics from a veteran team of master luthiers working in Kani, Japan. A flagship of the Yairi line, the DYM74 dreadnought sets the standard for all Masterworks instruments with solid aged East Indian rosewood, vintage redwood, and mahogany tonewoods. These choice wood selections work in harmony with custom bracing, bold hardware, and a unique bridge, for crisp frequency balance that ensures this guitar can roar just as easily as it can whisper. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or an intermediate player checking Sweetwater for your first premium instrument, the DYM74’s handbuilt features are ready to amplify your creativity onstage or off.





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Seasoned tonewoods carved by hand





Each tonewood aboard the DYM74 is a Yairi selection that complements the dreadnought shape. Rosewood back and sides give balanced midrange with focused low end and smooth highs, while a premium AAA vintage redwood top ensures hearty, clear articulation whether you're picking mellow melodies or strumming fiercely. A lost artifact of North America's timber heyday, vintage redwood lets guitarists own a rare piece of history, as these trees are no longer harvested for ecological reasons. An advanced “soft-V” to “C” profile keeps chording and picking smooth up and down the neck. The neck and every other wood component on the DYM74 is made from only the best of the best curated selections, aged and seasoned from five to 15 years to ensure a lightweight instrument that looks and sounds divine.





Direct Coupled bridges enhance projection and heighten dynamic sensitivity


Asymmetric bracing and a Direct Coupled bridge





Yairi-Alvarez blends advanced engineering with traditional luthier skills, and as such, some of the DYM74 exciting features are invisible to the naked eye. Inside, the DYM74's custom asymmetric bracing helps tease even levels and balanced tone across lows, mids, and highs for the range and versatility dreadnought players crave. A proprietary Direct Coupled bridge puts your strings in pure communication with the spruce top, representing a huge leap from bridges past. Direct Coupling gives more contact between strings and your guitar top; this not only boosts everything from volume to sustain and response, but it also reduces long-term wear and tear on the bridge for a more durable instrument.





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Alvarez-Yairi represents the driving force of Alvarez culture: obsessive attention to detail and traditional quality. The result is guitars that nourish creativity for a lifetime. However, these guitars aren’t just instruments, they’re souvenirs of music history and the emotions that shape it. Yairi's formidable team of 24 luthiers still builds instruments the traditional way ? sculpting guitars humbly by hand using only the finest materials with a nearly 60-year reputation of building players exceptional instruments at a fair price.





Alvarez Yairi DYM74 Acoustic Guitar Features:


Powerful dreadnought acoustic guitar


Handmade in Japan by expert Yairi luthiers


Resonant AAA vintage redwood top lets you own a piece of West Coast history


East Indian rosewood back and sides


Comfortable mahogany neck with a semi-gloss finish and a unique "soft V" to "C" profile


Ebony fingerboard with 20 frets


Direct Coupled bridge allows more contact between strings and wood for pure tone and long sustain


Extended dovetail neck joint enhances energy transfer from neck to body and yields wider truss rod adjustment range


Gotoh 510 tuners for exceptional tuning stability


Bone hardware and ebony bridge pins enhance vibrational transfer from string to top


Forward Shifted spruce bracing fuels even response across highs, mids, and lows