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Of course Japanese guitar builders really hit their stride in the 1980s... Here's a Morris Global Sound guitar being offered for sale for €400 on a French website. It features the faux thru-neck body finish popular on Japanese guitars of this era, plus the usual DiMarzio humbuckers and hardware. Morris guitars have been built in Nagano, Japan, since 1967. The company was named after the nickname for company founder Mr Toshio Moridaira, and today concentrate on producing fine acoustic guitars for fingerstyle players.
Thanks to Hervé for bringing this guitar to my attention.
G L Wilson
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- 1980s-era Arbor Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: The Arbor brandname is one which I am familiar with, but I know virtually nothing about them. This Arbor bass currently listed on eBay looks to be a solid enough well-built instrument and looking at it I'd guess it was 1980s...
- 1970s D'agostino Through-neck Japanese-made Electric Guitar
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- H.s. Anderson Houston
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- Left-handed Rickenbacker 340 Rose Morris Model Complete With F-hole
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- Westone Spectrum Mx From 1985 In Red Cellophane Finish
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Guitar
1980s Morris Global Sound solidbody electric guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com:
Of course Japanese guitar builders really hit their stride in the 1980s... Here's a Morris Global Sound guitar being offered for sale for €400 on a French website. It features the faux thru-neck body finish popular on Japanese guitars of this era, plus the usual DiMarzio humbuckers and hardware. Morris guitars have been built in Nagano, Japan, since 1967. The company was named after the nickname for company founder Mr Toshio Moridaira, and today concentrate on producing fine acoustic guitars for fingerstyle players. Thanks to Hervé for bringing this guitar to my attention.
G L Wilson
© 2014, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - the blog that goes all the way to 11!
Please read our photo and content policy.
- 1980s-era Arbor Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com: The Arbor brandname is one which I am familiar with, but I know virtually nothing about them. This Arbor bass currently listed on eBay looks to be a solid enough well-built instrument and looking at it I'd guess it was 1980s...
- 1970s D'agostino Through-neck Japanese-made Electric Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another Japanese-made guitar, this time from the 1970s and it's of genuine through-neck construction rather than being a "faux though neck" like the Morris guitar we looked at earlier this week. It's a D'Agostino,...
- H.s. Anderson Houston
guitarz.blogspot.com H.S. Anderson is a sub-brand of Morris Guitars that is itself a sub-brand of Moridaira Guitars, Morris being Mori anglicised - we're talking 1960s Japanese guitars there, and H.S. stands for Shiino Hidesato, a Moridaira employee...
- Left-handed Rickenbacker 340 Rose Morris Model Complete With F-hole
guitarz.blogspot.com: Ever vigilant on the lookout for interesting guitars for our left-handed friends, I spied this left-handed 1998 Rickenbacker 340 Rose Morris model in Fireglo finish on eBay. Alas, it does have a rather hefty Buy It Now price tag...
- Westone Spectrum Mx From 1985 In Red Cellophane Finish
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another "Spectrum"-named guitar from Japan, this one bringing proof that Haryama weren't the only Japanese guitar makers in the 1980s producing cellophane finishes. This Westone Spectrum MX is a Matsumoku-made guitar...