:please buy an original piece of artwork based on the Suzuki legacy.:). In any case, as Tetsu said."Have a nice life with Suzuki guitar."Īlso, if you would like to contribute to the establishment of a knowledgebase about Suzuki Guitars: Please: Maybe you'll hang on to it and see that there is something special about many of their instruments. One that is still undervalued in the opinion of many players (in other words - a good buy). If you own a Nagoya Suzuki guitar- congratulations on what you probably already know - that you own a well-crafted and good sounding instrument. Good wood, or good laminate, and good craftsmen, make a good guitar. Probably the skill acquired from violin-making and the other instruments played a large role in the good craftsmanship, according to one web source cited previously. It's a common story that when someone has G.A.S (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome) and needs to let a guitar or two go, the Suzuki is the one that stays behind and can't be replaced. There are thousands of players worldwide who would like to know more about their Suzuki guitar.
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They also produced an Insignia series of guitars in the 80's that had solid woods used in the manufacture and had more of an electric guitar-type of neck - thinner than a typical acoustic guitar. Nagoya Suzuki had a ' Three S' brand of guitar that seems to be consistently very highly valued by everyone that owns one.
Nagoya Suzuki made violins and mandolins, and is still in business making violins, but no guitars. To some players, the neck shape of their guitars is one reason they seem so playable. Both Suzukis used a very high grade of laminate and the construction usually shows a high degree of craftmanship. The two companies were headed by sons of Masakichi Suzuki.īoth companies made guitars that commonly have a laminated back or sides, many times the top also is laminated, but the sound, playability, and volume are what makes them so popular. But after the war they were split up into the Suzuki Violin Company (now Kiso Suzuki Violin Company) and Suzuki Violin Manufacturing Company (now Nagoya Suzuki Violin Company). They were one company before the 2nd World War. Masakichi's original company was eventually split into two: Kiso Suzuki and Nagoya Suzuki. Nagoya became the manufacturing center of string musical instruments. By 1910, his factory was producing 65,800 violins per year. He founded the Suzuki Violin Factory in 1900.
In the 1880s, he started to manually produce and sell violins. In the push for westernization in Meiji, he naturally became interested in shamisen's western counterpart: the violin. Masakichi succeeded his father's craft business that soon failed. His father was a samurai moonlighter and made shamisens in Nagoya. "Masakichi Suzuki was Japan's first violin producer. The production of guitars by the original SuzukI factory seems to have started,in the early 1900's. 1887' but that date has to do with the the original Masakichi-led company and it's production of violins.
These days, the factory now makes a rather good Japanese beer.Their guitars have printed on the label 'est. Idol and Honey were shuttered within a few years, but all three brands featured similar construction and interesting designs, and left us with some rather crazy guitars from the time period. The old Teisco factory was left dormant for a short time, but production soon started again in earnest in the late '60s. When Teisco was bought by Kawai in 1967, they shifted their guitar manufacturing to Hamamatsu. Idol was one of three Japanese companies-along with Firstman and Honey-to sprout from the Teisco Gen Gakki factory outside of Matsumoto. They're rare, but totally fun to track down. for a short time, so you can actually find them in the states, but it is akin to finding Teisco Spectrum 5s or Guyatone Telstars. An unknown importer did bring these guitars to the U.S. The PA-25 was probably the most extreme 6-string offering in the catalog, but sales were limited to the Japanese market. The Marlin PA-25 was designed by the short-lived Idol Company in Japan and featured in the same lineup as the PB-26 bass I wrote about in April 2020. Even the horns are slightly asymmetrical and just scream Pac-Man at first glance.
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