GrahamB wrote:
Thank you Wutz.
I am wondering if I could make a jump to thinking the Rose Morris guitars are the same as the 70s range of Aria guitars and rebadged? if so which would be the best comparison guitar?
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Some people say that the Rose Morris classicals are made in the Matsumoku factory; there is someone selling a Rose Morris 1674 aria guitar specifically saying it was made in the Matsumoku factory, how can they know?
I would not make the jump to think that everything Rose Morris sold with their own brand was an Aria rebadged... they might have done that, but there were quite a number of choice OEM manufacturers in Japan and elsewhere that could have been subcontracted.
For the classical guitar it will be even more difficult to figure out the factory (compared to an electrical guitar). All OEMs copied the same models, construction and hardware. There is simply no standout feature for most of the line-ups.