![]() ![]() You know what?.I think I've already wasted way too much of everybody's time on this. ![]() Going off the Emperor's birthday it would be the 21st of April 1945. G=Grand Concert shape for classicals some 'G' acoustics however had a Gallagher type headstock W, C, S, VS, D, G, A, T, R, O, J.may follow other common meanings. I have never seen a definite 1950's guitar yet, mainly because I don't know enough about them yet.The other prefixes/suffixes. Re: the serial number: on many of the models the first one or two numbers in the serial number stands for the year in which it was manufactured from the 60’s to the 80’s. ![]() Tod Gilding wrote:You Might Find Something interesting here In that, 'and' in the simple fact that many of Japan's 'modern' skilled workforce were killed in the war to leave much of the R&D in the hands of older men, many of whom may never have even heard of intonation, i reckon it's reasonable to believe that they may have overlooked that detail. I would not be surprised with that because at the time i imagine the focus for a company trying to build an export market against still strong prejudice of WW2 and the language barrier would have been on looks, price and robust reliability to try and over come the "Jap Crap" reputation that had resulted from Japan's export of sub-standard products throughout the 50's. A guess may suggest that model 09 would slot in somewhere in between the mid 60's to 70's and I say this because my own old hack has a 'W' prefix and i seem to recall that the rest of it's serial # indicates it was made in 81.Īs for strings? The saddle is not compensated but apparently sales literature from that time recommends steel strings for the 09 model. Later models adopted an alpha prefix e.g 'W' indicated a western style or dreadnought guitar. The Nagoya Co's first model guitars had a simple two digit sequence starting from "01" and then on to 02, 03 etc. One of these companies became the Suzuki Nagoya violin co and adopted the circular 'triple S' logo and these are well regarded for there build quality.even the laminated top models. Had a quick look around and apparently the yanks split the Suzuki Violin Co in two at the end of WW2. ![]()
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