The Teisco brand lasted until 1967 when the company and assets were purchased by the Kawai Musical Instrument Company. Teisco is the name that gave the company it’s recognition. There was another company called Tokyo Sound Co Ltd, that built Guyatone guitars. However, according to the company founder, Mr.
The original name of the company was Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo, which can be loosely translated to Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories.īy 1956 the name was changed to Nippon Onpa Kogyo Company, then in 1964 it was changed to Teisco, which most sources explain is an acronym for Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company.
Kaneko teamed up with electrical engineer, Doryu Matsuda. He also played the “Spanish” style guitar. Teisco, was a Japanese Company that was founded in 1946 by a Hawaiian guitarist named Atsuwo Kaneko. It was a fad, but many companies saw it as a bull guitar market and rushed in to make money. I cannot describe the incredible demand for guitars and basses after the British Invasion.
These guitars were normally sold by brokers, who usually re-branded them or had them rebadged them prior to shipment, then sold them to music stores, department stores, and even pawn shops. Although there was no metal name plate on the headstock, by it’s pedigree, I can tell it was made by Teisco at a time when the United States and the United Kingdom were being flooded with cheap electric guitars made in Japan. He owned a grocery store, and took it in as pawn from a customer that could not pay their bill. It appears that it was likely purchased along with a vintage Checkmate amplifier, as there was a manual for that amp with all the other stuff.I have an old guitar that my Dad gave me back in 1965. The Teisco is in a pretty amazing condition overall for a 50-55 year old guitar of this type. Signed, but unfortunately not dated, original warranty card, and a bunch of old guitar lesson booklets. It's beat to hell, but it's almost certainly been with this guitar since day one, and was also stuffed with some interesting things from WAAAY back, including it's three page one-fold, 8 1/2 x 11 'owner's manual'. It cost me too much, of course, but that seldom stopped me before, so here it is.Īs I was buying it, one of the store guys said that it also had a 'cardboard case', and went somewhere in back to retrieve it. It is a mid-late 1960's Teisco Del Rey model ET-312 Deluxe triple-pickup solidbody. Well, to make a short story even shorter, I bought it.
I waltzed into our local music store late this morning to see if I could find a soundhole pickup for that goofy little black cowboy guitar of mine, when I spotted this old thing on their wall.
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