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TAD39
PostPosted: Sun 27 Apr 2014 05:42 PM 
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Integra wrote:
Greetings from Kawagoe, Japan, TAD39!

Beautiful photos of your AP2s in their hometown! It's also very interesting to see such an early Aria Pro II guitar with a slightly different logo. Great stuff!


Good morning.
Thank you!
Are you a Japanese?
I am surprised at a note from Japan.
Ha, ha.
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Ups... spelling mistake, I wanted to say I visited Matsumoto. Actually the factory tour at Fujigen was organised by my wife (as a birthday present for me).
Anyway, Matsumoto is not so far from Yokohama... but somehow I don't visit the Matsumoto area very often. Next time I definitely have to visit the memorial stone.
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Aaah Nice photographs Tad!
Springtime in Nagano.
Matsumoku memorial stone...
:split:
Cherry blossom Sakura.
Check out Eric Johnson's 'Koto' technique... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3DFF2MbgQ8

An inspiring time to take pictures outside.
Welcome back!

Not Aria but still a Matsumoku product.
Taken years ago. My Westone Prestige.
Image

Delicate pink leaves falling down,
covering the ground.
It is like poetry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnYmQXOLF4


Cheers, Jim

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If the admins permit it....

Hiromu Handa is a mystery to me. To me he is/was the greatest Koto player in my humble opinion.
I really wish the music from this LP was available on CD! (High quality)
My friend from Sweden also has it and blogged about it :
http://bolingo69.blogspot.nl/2010/11/le-koto-de-hiromu-handa-vol1-p1977.html

Most impressive Koto player!
Is he famous in Japan TAD?
Records get worn... :( Such a pity.

Not my favourite track, 'Sakura-Kaété-Godan' would have been more appropriate but I found this track on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XrCsq3KzA

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Wutz wrote:
Ups... spelling mistake, I wanted to say I visited Matsumoto. Actually the factory tour at Fujigen was organised by my wife (as a birthday present for me).
Anyway, Matsumoto is not so far from Yokohama... but somehow I don't visit the Matsumoto area very often. Next time I definitely have to visit the memorial stone.


Good morning.
Your wife is splendid.
My parents' house is near the monument.
The place is the neighbor of Minami-Matsumoto Station.

My friend does it in my off-line meeting every year from Yokohama.
I visited an American and many guitar makers and people last year.
Guitar developer first in MATSUMOKU, HARAYAMA.
http://www.geocities.jp/guitarofworld/H ... uitar.html

The second developer HAYASHI. (H.Noble)
And I met person in charge FURUYA of the painting.
The American traveler's diary is this.
https://www.facebook.com/DrowningInGuit ... gInGuitars
http://guitartravelsinjapan.wordpress.com/

The photograph is FUJIGEN head office and NAMBU park and ATLANCIA.


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PostPosted: Mon 28 Apr 2014 07:19 PM 
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jim sneglov wrote:
Aaah Nice photographs Tad!
Springtime in Nagano.
Matsumoku memorial stone...
:split:
Cherry blossom Sakura.
Check out Eric Johnson's 'Koto' technique... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3DFF2MbgQ8

An inspiring time to take pictures outside.
Welcome back!

Not Aria but still a Matsumoku product.
Taken years ago. My Westone Prestige.
Image

Delicate pink leaves falling down,
covering the ground.
It is like poetry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnYmQXOLF4


Cheers, Jim


It's been a long time!
It is a wonderful photograph.
Beautiful.
I like Eric Johnson.
He is a technician.
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Wutz wrote:
Ups... spelling mistake, I wanted to say I visited Matsumoto. Actually the factory tour at Fujigen was organised by my wife (as a birthday present for me).
Anyway, Matsumoto is not so far from Yokohama... but somehow I don't visit the Matsumoto area very often. Next time I definitely have to visit the memorial stone.


Good morning.
Your wife is splendid.
My parents' house is near the monument.
The place is the neighbor of Minami-Matsumoto Station.

My friend does it in my off-line meeting every year from Yokohama.
I visited an American and many guitar makers and people last year.
Guitar developer first in MATSUMOKU, HARAYAMA.
http://www.geocities.jp/guitarofworld/H ... uitar.html

The second developer HAYASHI. (H.Noble)
And I met person in charge FURUYA of the painting.
The American traveler's diary is this.
https://www.facebook.com/DrowningInGuit ... gInGuitars
http://guitartravelsinjapan.wordpress.com/

The photograph is FUJIGEN head office and NAMBU park and ATLANCIA.


The photograph is FUJIGEN Omachi-factory and ATLANCIA.
It is the PE that H.Noble owns.


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If the admins permit it....

Hiromu Handa is a mystery to me. To me he is/was the greatest Koto player in my humble opinion.
I really wish the music from this LP was available on CD! (High quality)
My friend from Sweden also has it and blogged about it :
http://bolingo69.blogspot.nl/2010/11/le-koto-de-hiromu-handa-vol1-p1977.html

Most impressive Koto player!
Is he famous in Japan TAD?
Records get worn... :( Such a pity.

Not my favourite track, 'Sakura-Kaété-Godan' would have been more appropriate but I found this track on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XrCsq3KzA


I do not know him.
I'm sorry.
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This guitar is made in MATSUMOKU, too.
Probably it is a guitar of about 1972.


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TAD39 wrote:
Good morning.
Your wife is splendid.
My parents' house is near the monument.
The place is the neighbor of Minami-Matsumoto Station.

My friend does it in my off-line meeting every year from Yokohama.
I visited an American and many guitar makers and people last year.
Guitar developer first in MATSUMOKU, HARAYAMA.
http://www.geocities.jp/guitarofworld/H ... uitar.html

The second developer HAYASHI. (H.Noble)
And I met person in charge FURUYA of the painting.
The American traveler's diary is this.
https://www.facebook.com/DrowningInGuit ... gInGuitars
http://guitartravelsinjapan.wordpress.com/

The photograph is FUJIGEN head office and NAMBU park and ATLANCIA.


I have only been at the smaller Fujigen factory, where they make the guitars (except for the finish). The person showing us around in the factory mentioned that the main factory does mainly car parts (like wooden dashboards etc.). I have a similar picture from the Atlansia entrance (unfortunately they were closed on that day).

Actually my first electric guitar was made by Fujigen... I would have loved an PE-R80 back then, but it was too expensive... so I settled for a Strat copy.

You are visiting Yokohama once per year? Let me know when you will be in Yokohama next time and let's meet.

... and yes, I know that my wife is splendid... and she even does not get mad at my obsession with guitars.
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