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Long termers

You can’t help thinking that guitar design is going backwards. It seems that if an instrument isn’t chasing a tone and style from yesteryear, a classic artist or a classic recording, well, don’t bother. Yamaha can certainly be accused of jumping on that bandwagon. Its huge-selling Pacifica guitars, for example, are far from original: that was the idea for their creation in the first place. But Revstar was always about being a little different – the design and, to a different? And then something changed.

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