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• K Yairi Acoustic Guitar

Yairi is the surname name of three Japanese luthiers associated with quality handmade acoustic guitars. In the 1960s and 1980s, Sadao Yairi made guitars under the S. His son Hiroshi Yairi made acoustic guitars under Sadao's supervision (usually signed and/or stamped as by S. Sadao was uncle of Kazuo Yairi who built guitars mostly under his own brand, K. The guitar's top is solid Cedar, with Rosewood back, sides and bridge. The neck is Mahogany, with a beautiful Ebony fretboard. The guitar dates from 1999 (serial number 54878), and comes in a very high quality (and expensive) English-made Hiscox Lite Flight case.

• The guitar keeping very nice condition. Its All hand made in Yairi Factory in Gifu Japan. The quality is top of Japan made guitars. Yairi guitar chose the really good quality Body/Wood The sounds is really nice! Serial Number is 16344 Made In Japan) The manufacturing year is 1977. The manufacturing and wood is very nice. Of course.Sound is great!
• FWIW: I have the same guitar, and it is around the same vintage as yours, with a 4 digit serial number and the headstock truss-rod adjustment. As you can see from the response from SLM, the headstock truss-rod adjustment was on the earliest Alvarez guitars. I have another Alvarez from 1981-2, that adjusts in the sound-hole.

Yairi and early Alvarez Yairi models used the Emperor dating code.these are the numbers stamped on the heelblock of the guitar. Tamarin starinnij gobelen noti dlya fortepiano english. There are a few exceptions, especially after 1999, when they started to change how they date them. I am trying to learn about the specs of the various Alvarez Yairi Guitar Models of the 1970s and 1980s. There seems to be quite a few Model numbers in the Alvarez Yairi lines.

I came across a K. Yairi on CL locally and Im not sure if the person realizes what they have. Its a 19xx model, 6 string, steel, spruce/mahogany (I think) but so far I have no pics so thats all I know. Do any of you guys that own Yairis have a 90's model or know where I could link up to a catalog of those model years? There is not a huge amount of info on K.

Yairi that i have been able to find, other than a lot of speculation over the genealogy of K. Yairi but not much else. I emailed Alvarez US and Mr. Kruszka said id need the heelblock or model number, not the serial number.

Ill update this as I know more from the owner, but for xxx.xx,[Thanks, Mods-I haven't been here for awhile and forgot about the price rule] for a purportedly 8.5 out of 10 Yairi, am I possibly doing will? Original case and everything comes with it, and its signed K.yairi inside.

Yairi YD302 Profile: 1976 S. Yairi YD302 Make: S. Yairi Year: 1976 Model: YD302 Serial Number: 6101.1 Made in Japan Type: 6-string acoustic guitar (steel string) Body type: dreadnought • Solid spruce top • Mahogany neck • Rosewood side and back • Ebony fretboard • Scale: 645mm • Nut width: 45mm S. Yairi, unsolved mystery Among guitar enthusiasts in Japan and around the world, S.

Yairi is known as one of the best guitars built back in the 70's. Yairi ceased to exist in the 80's. A similar brand name, K. Yairi, still exists, but the company claims that there is no relation to S. Raspberry pi mpeg2 license generator.

Asus dual wan load balance problems. Unfortunately in recent years, a new company with the same brand name began selling guitars made in China and by contractors in Japan, creating confusion among new buyers. The truth about S. Yairi is not well known. What happened to the master luthier, Sadao Yairi (a.k.a. Why does Kazuo Yairi (K. Yairi, Alvarez-Yairi) remain silent about the history and his relation to his uncle, Sadao? What is the secret behind the lifetime-guaranteed neck?

Only in the past several years some clues have been put together by enthusiasts. Still, there are more questions than answers. My guitar, YD302, is the low-end model of S. Yairi, built in 1976.

We may not know much about the guitar maker, but if you listen, the guitar itself tells us a story, something wonderful about the people who built it. Just hold it, play, and you'll know why some of us think that S. Yairi may be the best guitars ever built. Brother Yuichi This S. Yairi is the first guitar I owned. Before this, I was playing my brother's left-handed electric guitar. In order to play right-handed, I peeled off and flip the nut and reverse the strings.

When my brother plays it, I put it back to its left-handed mode. I repeated this operation for a few years until my brother's great patience finally ran out.

One day, Yuichi asked me if I wanted a guitar of my own. I said yes, but I got no money to buy one. I was in Middle School back then. A little over a year passed and he asked me again if I wanted a guitar of my own.

I said yes again but I still got no money. I was in High School and had part-time job as a burger flipper, but all my money went to buy gears for my Kendo training (Japanese martial arts). I actually wanted to quit the Kendo team to play in a rock band with my friends, but my master coach didn't allow me to do that.

Anyways, my brother smiled and slowly pulled out a stack of money from his pocket. He was holding 60,000 yen. It was back in the mid 70s; that money would be $1,000 or more today. He said, 'you can buy a guitar with this money if you like, but I don't want you to buy a cheap crap.

You must find a good guitar. You go find it and tell me.

If I approve your choice, I'll give you this money.' It turned out that he'd been saving the money from the moment he asked me the question a year before. He was still in college back then, and I recall he had a part-time job at a noodle shop, not really a well-paying job. It took him a year to save that much money. I went out to a couple of guitar shops in Tokyo, did a lot of research, and came up with S. Yairi as my final choice.

My decision was fairly easy, even though there were so many choices from guitar makers like Yamaha and Takamine. Yairi, even the low-end model, sounded much better than any guitars I played, including high-end models from competing brands. My brother approved my choice, and the S. Yairi YD302 became the guitar of my own. A year later, I ran away from home. My only possession was this guitar and a school bag.

K. Yairi

The most beautiful Martin D-45 copies in the world, a 1976 K. Yairi YW-1000

Alvarez Yairi Guitar Models Of The 1970s And 1980s Questions ..

I’m extremely happy with the two Morris I have and think that Terada is one of the better acoustic guitar builders in Japan. Having said that, I think everyone that is in to Japanese acoustics dream of owning a K. Yairi, at least I do. Unfortunately they are a bit too expensive for me, I’m sure they are worth it but you can get an old Martin, Gibson or Guild for that money. One thing that I really like with Yairi is that they use the year of the Emperor of Japan to determine the production year of their instruments, how awesome is that. See the list below.

Good materials are hard to find so it’s better to make guitars through limited production by hand instead of mass production. Trees are very important “precious” things so we should make good use of them. Guitars made with “heart” are the best use of trees. Kazuo Yairi

When was my Yairi made?
By reading the number stamped on the heel block of your Yairi, you can tell in which year it was made. The first two numbers correspond to the year of the Emperor of Japan at that time, see chart below. The second two numbers refer to the month of production. Taken from The Fellowship of Acoustics

Trying To Date My Alvarez (now With Guitar Pics) The Gear Page

A.D. Emperor Year
1970 Shōwa 45
1971 46
1972 47
1973 48
1974 49
1975 50
1976 51
1977 52
1978 53
1979 54
1980 55
1981 56
1982 57
1983 58
1984 59
1985 60
1986 61
1987 62
1988 63
1989 Heisei 1
1990 2
1991 3
1992 4
1993 5
1994 6
1995 7
1996 8
1997 9
1998 10
1999 11
2000 12
End of Emperor Date Code
2001 01
2002 02
2003 03
2004 04
etc.

K Yairi Acoustic Guitar

Emperor Shōwa and future Emperor Heisei on 10 April 1959