Yamaha AEX 1500 (Martin Taylor)

This Yamaha archtop is the probably the finest archtop guitar they have ever made. It is aslo probably one of the the first hybrid electronic pickup set ups. It has an under saddle pick up as well as the floating pick up fitted to the neck. Both of the pickups can be blended together. I met Martin Taylor not long after he had received the first one from Yamaha and he seemed very excited to tell me about the undersaddle pick up which Yamaha had fitted especially for him. He said It enabled him to produce a more acoustic sound.