This guitar was made in Japan by by the Kiso Suzuki Violin Company company. It is a copy of a guitar by the USA guitar makers Martin & Co.
In the 1970's several Japanese instrument makers decided to capitalise in the popularity of the guitar and began to copy American guitars and then export them back to the US and Europe.
Eventually the American guitar manufacturers threatened to take legal action, accusing those companies of stealing their designs, and the Japanese manufacturers made small changes to their designs to avoid infringing any copyrights. The guitars made during that period are now know as 'lawsuit' copies and have started to become collectors items in their own right, particularly in the face of the high prices being paid for classic American guitars of the era.
This guitar is an object that tells us how craftsmen and manufacturers change their product to follow cultural trends. In the case of the Suzuki company, first from traditional Japanese instruments to the western violin and then, as popular taste changed from classical music to rock and country, from the violin to the guitar. Master boot record ps2.
In the 1970's several Japanese instrument makers decided to capitalise in the popularity of the guitar and began to copy American guitars and then export them back to the US and Europe.
Eventually the American guitar manufacturers threatened to take legal action, accusing those companies of stealing their designs, and the Japanese manufacturers made small changes to their designs to avoid infringing any copyrights. The guitars made during that period are now know as 'lawsuit' copies and have started to become collectors items in their own right, particularly in the face of the high prices being paid for classic American guitars of the era.
This guitar is an object that tells us how craftsmen and manufacturers change their product to follow cultural trends. In the case of the Suzuki company, first from traditional Japanese instruments to the western violin and then, as popular taste changed from classical music to rock and country, from the violin to the guitar. Master boot record ps2.
Anonymous Jarrod said. Hi tomas and all,in my years of trying to date Suzuki guitars the only sense I can make of it all is for kiso Suzuki's ( inc. Takeharu, Halifax, bluebell, tomson etc ) the first number of the serial number is the last year of the build year ie. 11023 would be either, 1971(apparent on takeharu's which have the model number build year and serial number which the. Kiso Suzuki guitars have very comfortable necks – and that makes them very playable. Sometimes you'll find 'zero' frets installed -intonation was a problem with. Nagoya Suzuki used 2 systems of serial numbers, the most common is the. Stunning Maple KISO SUZUKI HW-250P Acoustic Guitar.
Suzuki Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers List
- Sigma-Martin USA guitars built in 1981 and 1982 only, had specifically assigned serial numbers ranging from 900,001 to 902,908 (2,908 in total.) These serial numbers are documented by C.F. And to this day remain the only Sigma related serial numbers that are publicly available.
- Unknown #2: If you can date yours to about 1970 I'd love to know the serial number. I rescued mine from doom at an op shop where it was looking very bedraggled, with a crack starting at the base of the neck at the heel and four rotten old strings that widened the crack on tensioning.