Recently read Sadao went bankrupt and left Japan to save face, first to Korea then China.can`t confirm that but it may be why Kazuo doesn`t speak of his relative.at least we`re sure they were related.somehow. 2.it`s in Japanese and I haven`t asked my wife to translate all of it so maybe the answers are in there but I gotta think, if they were, some one would have written about it on line already so my guess is.he hasn`t spilled the beans yet. What I`ve read is this.and I can`t say it`s 100% certain.the original Sadao left the Suzuki violin company in Fukushima prefecture in 1935 to start off on his own and went to Nagoya, he taught both Kazuo and Sadao guitar building, Kazuos says in the book he went to America to study luthery from `61 to `65.I`ve read Kazuo and Sadao were brothers and/or cousins, even read one was the uncle to the other, nobody seems to know for sure.except Kazuo and it`s a story he isn`t keen on, theres an extended interview with him in the Japan Vintage series of books on acoustics, vol. Yairi eh.a topic that even Japanese authors who write books on MIJ acoustics can`t seem to solve though lots has been written about them, evidently Kazuo isn`t talkin` and I`ve read Sadao has passed so. I wonder where they got the idea from? Even if I’m being slightly facetious, a wooden pickguard is a beautiful, classy touch that we’ve come to expect from a Yairi build.S. Both guitars also feature a bone nut and saddle, Gotoh tuners, mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, and a rosewood bridge.Īnd what’s that? Is that a wood pickguard!? Yep, they even have ovangkol pickguards! You may know that Taylor started using rosewood pickguards in 2014. The satin finish lets the solid woods breathe and creates a nice looking “pore” on the ovangkol. They featured nicely tinted solid Sitka spruce tops, and solid ovangkol back and sides. What we have here is a one-two punch of beautiful ovankgol wood guitars! The LOK7OVA has “mini dreadnought” dimensions, and the YWK7OVA is a full size dreadnought. But really, its a wonder why because they are very special guitars! A Google search was almost entirely fruitless, but we did discover that these were foreign market exclusives (sold in 2011), never sold in the US, and not sold in large quantities anywhere. Most were your basic widely available models, and when I say basic, I mean that the new Yairi acoustics are some of the best you can buy for the money, with a very rich history to back them up!īut we also stumbled across 2 that were sent to us with some strange model numbers. Recently we’ve been lucky to get our hands on some top shelf Alvarez Yairi acoustic guitar samples.

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