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I'm going to be lazy and lift the details about this Kawai guitar straight from the seller's description on eBay. When it's already been said so well, why re-write it?
Thanks to Jaimie Muehlhausen for bringing this one to my attention.
G L Wilson
© 2011, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
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Guitar
1968 Kawai roundback acoustic - Japanese Ovation Glen Campbell copy
guitarz.blogspot.com:
The downright weirdness of this guitar may be lost on most of you, but for those collectors of 1960s Japanese vintage, bizarre and lawsuit guitars, this thing is so bad it's good. What we have is a 1968 Kawai knockoff prototype of what was at the time one of the strangest and most novel pieces of guitar technology out there: the Ovation smooth-bowl Glen Campbell model. You gotta give it to the Japanese, they didn't waste anytime. But not only did they copy what is now perhaps the rarest and most sought after Ovation, they one-upped them as well in the strangeness category. First off, the smooth FRP resin bowl is LIME GREEN! On top of that, the neck is triple-bound, the headstock is pointy and devilish and capped with three-ply laminate and an awesome Kawai emblem, and the fingerboard is inlayed with upside down Teisco Spectrum 5 inlays (makes perfect sense as the Kawai factory was turning out those Teiscos at the time). And if that isn't cool enough, the tuning keys have CLEAR enclosures. Talk about space age tech.Currently listed on eBay with a $400 starting price and a Buy It Now of $600.
Thanks to Jaimie Muehlhausen for bringing this one to my attention.
G L Wilson
© 2011, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- R.l. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On The Line (1978)
guitarz.blogspot.com: Grégory asks: What guitar is that? Looks like a Teisco or Kawai from the late 60s early 70s... The video is from 1978. What's that piece of metal doing on the top of the fretboard? That's not just a fret zero... Any...
- 1960s Kawai Solidbody Electric In Daphne Blue
guitarz.blogspot.com: Whilst on the whole I am a fan of Japanese guitars, that is not to say that everything with strings produced in Japan was of high quality. Some of the more budget instruments from the 1960s and 1970s were quite shocking. I fear that...
- Sekova Hollowbody Electric: Another 1960s Japanese-made Oddity
guitarz.blogspot.com: These days I find myself increasingly drawn towards thinline hollowbody or semi-hollowbody guitars than I do to solidbodies. I think it's something about the resonance that the guitar gives when you play it; it feels somehow...
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I just started a side blog about the Kawai Aquarius - that is not only my first guitar but a very honorable and underrated one, about which it is quite difficult to find any information since Kawai stopped guitar production in the late 80s. I managed...
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My very first electric guitar, bought in 1982 (a gift from my dear mother, may she be blessed, she didn't know), at the time when Japanese guitars were so despised that the seller told me that it was "a mistake for the japs to have made such a good...