• Any information about the Kiso Suzuki HILLBILLY, HW-250 R, serial number 70912? There is a guy selling it on the internet for 400€. I would like to know the real value.
• This guitar was made in Japan by by the Kiso Suzuki Violin Company company. It is a copy of a guitar by the USA guitar makers Martin & Co. In the 1970's several Japanese instrument makers decided.
• This has the Martin Lawsuit version logo, and Serial number is 01026! This has the Martin Lawsuit version logo, and Serial number is 01026! Details about Early Beautiful Kiso Suzuki Model F 100 Acoustic Guitar, s# 1026 Martin Lawsuit. Early Beautiful Kiso Suzuki Model F 100 Acoustic Guitar, s# 1026 Martin Lawsuit.
• I am reducing my private collection of Vintage. Lawsuit and Modern Guitars. My lovely Kiso Suzuki F10 Acoustic Folk Guitar.Made in Japan between1968 and 1970 and is in beautiful condition for a 45 year old Guitar. Fabulous tone and sustain. Recent Professional set up and currently fitted with a new set of D'Addario 12-53 Gauge Phosphor Bronze.

Kiso Suzuki Guitar Serial Numbers Prior To 1977

This guitar was made in Japan by by the Kiso Suzuki Violin Company company. It is a copy of a guitar by the USA guitar makers Martin & Co.
In the 1970's several Japanese instrument makers decided to capitalise in the popularity of the guitar and began to copy American guitars and then export them back to the US and Europe.
Eventually the American guitar manufacturers threatened to take legal action, accusing those companies of stealing their designs, and the Japanese manufacturers made small changes to their designs to avoid infringing any copyrights. The guitars made during that period are now know as 'lawsuit' copies and have started to become collectors items in their own right, particularly in the face of the high prices being paid for classic American guitars of the era.
This guitar is an object that tells us how craftsmen and manufacturers change their product to follow cultural trends. In the case of the Suzuki company, first from traditional Japanese instruments to the western violin and then, as popular taste changed from classical music to rock and country, from the violin to the guitar.

Kiso Suzuki Classical Guitar

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