The Guitar Gallery Forums - The Guitar Legacy of Matsumoku

I just got her recently and she has a little damage, but that's alright with me. Personally, I love its shape, and its easy play-ability. A very comfortable instrument in my opinion, and I wouldn't change it because of that.





Instead of posting my excessive amount of images here, I uploaded them to this photobucket album instead. - Click here to see the album.

I do have to say, I've done my research on her quite a bit to no avail. I was told it was made between '65 and '67, also that it was wholesaled out of Chicago. Some people have said it was a Uncle Matt, others said Shiro Arai Co. (which's what I was thinking with the research that I've done myself), and I even had a couple people claim it was made by Kasuga. Anyone here have any information about it?

Nice one.

It may be hard to pin the actual maker down. Matsumoku and Kasuga were actual makers. Aria was a designer and distributor that farmed production out to makers, primarily Matsumoku during Matt's years of production. Kasuga was a quality company too.

Thank you for clearing that up for me, RSB. I love vintage japanese guitars to death but I'm still learning about them, and it's specific pieces of information like this that I desire to know.

We are all still learning about them.