The Japanese logo changed to a sans-serif tye in an italicised 'T' shape. Another new headstock style was introduced - this time the classic (and my favourite) Teisco four-and-two headstock (three-and-one on basses). Get a snark tuner for 15 bucks that clips onto your headstock, or some other cheap simple tuner that you can plug your guitar into and it will be super. Occasionally, Kawai has periodically produced reissues of the. Kawai continued to produce Teiscobranded guitars, amps, and even synthesizers in dwindling numbers up through the midвЂ70s. The company shortens its name to 'Teisco Co. Kawai used this feature on a majority of its solid bodies, while original Teisco guitars never used string bars and instead favoured pitched headstocks. Two grand, but that's in mint condition with original case and paperwork. The groundbreaking and unique amp-in-a-guitar TRG-1 is introduced. Strum & Drum was the company that wound up with National Guitar trademark after they went of business in the early 1960s. Scroll to the bottom of the page for a surprising coda to the Strum & Drum story. For even more stories about great guitars, please subscribe to The Fretboard Journal. I have sold a couple of rare ones at auction in the USA for over UPDATE: This guitar sold for 240 on March 27, 2014. That brings the value of the set neck version up through the roof here. The Authorities got smart to that in The USA though and confiscated both the Ibanez and Mann versions but the Mann versions were rare in the US to begin with. By 66, the headstock of most Teisco basses (solidbody and thinline) had been given a three-plus-one tuner configuration, while most electric guitars in the. These include Teisco (duh), Silvertone, Dan Electro, and a few other names. Enter Mann, they were the simple answer to get these guitars into Canada and It's definitely of the Teisco family from the headstock design. With brass fret markers etc.Д®ven to this day, try getting an Ibanez case or guitar into Canada for example. Importantly, both guitars retain their Audition screwed-on names on the headstock. The only things thatвЂ™s missing from the acoustic is the bottom strap button. Versions Are very rare and hard to come by, Especially a set neck and a solid neck that's one piece, (not a laminated fretboard). The acoustic has a few more scratches to the back than the front but it plays well and has the original tuners.

When they lost the lawsuit Mann was forced to shut down and the inventory was confiscated and destroyed. Ibanez did this to protect themselves from the lawsuit and preserve the Seizing the Japanese shipments and sawing the headstocks off of guitars by the boat load. Mann was the name that Ibanez started building under when they were being sued by gibson and fender for making replica's of the top guitars, The authorities were

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