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Images acoustic (circa 1961) courtesy of Leanne, 2008: which is a global musical instrument maker. From this, we will handle the processing of metal parts of “KAWAI” brand electronic instruments in general.
#Teisco del rey electric guitar series#
Established at the capital of 2 million yen to manufacture metallic parts of the electric guitar brand “TEISCO” which was the central presence among them.ġ967 (S 42) Januar – Due to the decline of the electric boom, TEISCO will be a series of Kawara Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. The best resource is TeiscoTwangers the original link may come back some time įebruary 1965 (S40) – The unprecedented electric guitar boom occurred in the early 1960 ‘s. Teisco was a Japanese company that built guitars from 1948 to 1969, and Teisco is an acronym for Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company. UK – Arbiter, Audition, Kay and Top TwentyĪfter Kawai bought Teisco in 1967, they started to produce all the Teisco guitars, as well as their own brand, Apollo. Today we are looking at a little bit of Japanese guitar history: a Teisco Del Rey E-110 6-string electric guitar that I picked up at the Rose Bowl Flea Market last month.
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USA – Kent, Kingston, Kimberly, Tulio, Heit Deluxe and WorldTeisco. Guitars sold in the United States were badged “Teisco Del Rey” from 1964. The company was acquired by Kawai in 1967, with the Teisco brand name for guitars ending in 1969. Dan was perhaps the first to celebrate guitars whose names didn’t begin with M, G, or F. His was the first, and sometimes the only, story I’d read for a long time. In 1956 the name was changed to ‘Nippon Ompa Kogyo Co’. If you’re old enough and like whacky guitars, like me, you probably remember the great Guitar Player Off the Wall columns by Teisco Del Rey, the nom de plume of journalist Dan Forte. The company was originally called ‘Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo’ (roughly: Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories). The Japanese budget brand might have been recently reborn as a maker of oddball effects, but during the mid 1960s, it was bringing its eccentric design approach to guitars such as this offset.
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Our final leftfield electric comes from Teisco. Teisco was founded in 1946 by guitarist Atswo Kaneko, and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. Rare Guitars: Rory Gallagher’s 1965 Teisco Del Rey.