“And they would play cheaper guitars, because that’s what they could afford. “Rory loved collecting blues memorabilia – vinyl, posters, photographs – and he was fascinated by what the old blues guys would play,” Daniel explains. So much of Rory’s collection is taken up with these unusual guitars that weren’t exactly trendy at the time, and a lot of it comes back to his deep love of blues and blues history. “He’d be looking at the Nationals, the Teiscos, the Silvertones, asking ‘What’s that? What does it sound like? Can I break the tremolo arm off it?’” “If he was here now, he’d be ignoring all that,” he continues, gesturing to the wall of old Gibsons and Fenders in New King’s Road Vintage Guitar Emporium. He wouldn’t be interested in buying that year’s new Strat or whatever.
“When he was on the road, especially in America, he would just go into pawn shops and buy loads of Kays, Harmonys, Tokais and Teiscos. “I feel like this is another one of those guitars where he saw it and thought, ‘That’s mad, nobody else is playing one, I’ll take it!’ And it probably only cost him a couple of hundred dollars, if that! “This is such a mad thing! It’s so cool – it’s got a handle, nobody needs a handle!” Daniel Gallagher – Rory’s nephew – laughs. 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. Image of Spectrum 5 guitar courtesy of David Feb 2008.Our final leftfield electric comes from Teisco. 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. 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. 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. 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. In 1956 the name was changed to ‘Nippon Ompa Kogyo Co’. The company was originally called ‘Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo’ (roughly: Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories). Teisco was founded in 1946 by guitarist Atswo Kaneko, and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda.
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