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Nagoya Suzuki Guitar Serial Numbers



This is a blog dedicated to older Suzuki Guitars. Suzuki Guitars have been around since the early 1900's and have attracted a growing interest by players and collectors alike. Many guitar players own more than one guitar, yet a common story it seems is that the Suzuki guitar is the one played most often, or that stays with them when all others are sold. The company may be known by the generic label 'Suzuki', but there are actually three different Japanese companies that have manufactured guitars under the name of Suzuki during the 50's to the present time - but all having a common ancestry.
Kiso-Suzuki was one company to manufacture guitars in the region of Kiso-prefecture. A company was started in Nagoya too - Suzuki Violin Company, Nagoya manufacturing about the same number of models as Kiso, but with different numbers. Suzuki

Nagoya Suzuki Guitar Serial Numbers For Sale

Today, there is a company called 'Suzuki Musical Instrument CO.' and it has no relation to the other Suzuki companies, but was started by Manji Suzuki, whose guitars used to be labelled with the 'M Suzuki' label. Good guitars it seems.

Suzuki Guitars forum. A forum for Suzuki guitar owners to chat, ask questions, and talk about their Kiso Suzuki, Nagoya Suzuki, and M Suzuki guitars. Open to acoustic and classical. Vintage numbers from 1932 to 1970 are supported. Serial numbers from 70' and 80's era Epiphone guitars made in Japan are not supported. If you own a Nagoya Suzuki guitar- congratulations on what. Sage converter 1.7 mac download. Digital diary. Iit Mathematics By Ml Khanna Pdf here. On many of the models the first one or two numbers in the serial number stands for the year in.


Suzuki in Nagoya, Japan does not manufacture guitars any more,
All Suzuki's have had a fairly good-to-excellent reputation and some models are very collectable; one reason is the quality of wood and workmanship; there is also a history of copying from the venerable Martin company, (some story is getting passed around that the copies resulted in a lawsuit by Martin in the 1970's, but apparently is not true according to allexperts.com writer bilrux@aol.com.)
Also, I had a tour of the Martin factory a few years ago and asked the president, Chris Martin, who gave us the tour (super nice guy)about the lawsuit, and he said 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery', or words to that effect.

Suzuki Nagoya Violin

I've attempted to create some kind of order out of the chaos that exists regarding Suzuki model numbers and dates of manufacture, but the following list is only incomplete. I'm looking for any information re: the models of guitars that were manufactured by this company and the materials used.'

Nagoya Suzuki Guitar Serial Numbers Dating

When this goal has been reached, it will be a wonderful day for all of those guitar players around the world who own a Suzuki guitar and have said to themselves, 'I REALLY like this guitar..what is the story behind it?' If you have any information to add to the Suzuki story unfolding here, please submit pictures and/or stories thru the relevant links at the top of the page. If you have any pictures of construction, repair, or modifications, e-mail the pics to me at suzukiguitars@gmail.com and I'll publish them. Just identify the model and describe the pic. Thanks!



Nagoya Suzuki Guitar Serial Numbers
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