#TEISCO GUITAR COMPANY PLUS#

Check my about me page for the ebay listing. One of my blog readers sent me these two pictures of what we believe to be the rare Splender model (Thanks James!) One other company, Firstman (unrelated to Kawai), produced a model similar to the Concert called the Liverpool. For Teisco, 1968 was the year that gave us the famous artist-palette-shaped May Queen, wildly flared, asymmetrical Fire Bird, and long-horn Phantom.

#TEISCO GUITAR COMPANY PLUS#

Kawai produced models such as the axe-shaped Concert, plus a variety of unusual VS violin-bodied guitars (including one with 16 strings and its own pickup mounted parallel to the strings, whether sympathetic or strummed, who knows?), the Splender, shaped like a banjo, and another model shaped like a sitar. In 1968 both Kawai and Teisco freaked out. Teisco continued the vector of evolution it had taken, ending up with the Spectrums and finally the mini-Strats, before become the Kay brand in the U.S. Both lines featured exclusive designs and different pickups. In January of 1967 Kawai purchased the Teisco guitar company, but they appear to have operated the two companies pretty much separately. Kawai also built guitars for Saint Lous music in the 1960's and 1970's under their brand name Apollo. manufactured by Kawai were TeleStar, whose sparkle models have a small but devoted following, Kimberly, and Domino. Probably the most prominent brand names in the U.S. Often accused of supplying more flash than substance, there are Kawai guitars that are of high quality, playability and design. Like many Japanese electric guitars, most early Kawai guitars were slightly frumpy, although the impression is that their electronics were a little better than most. Kawai's vision was to create top-quality pianos, a quest in which he certainly succeeded! Kawai added guitars to its line around 1954 and eventually became a player in the 1960s Guitar Boom. Kawai was founded in 1927 by Koichi Kawai in Hamamatsu, Japan.

It's most likely that this guitar was built by Kawai seeing as how the quality appears to be higher than that seen in a typical Teisco.

Many of the ones I've seen have the goldfoil pickups just like this one has. Audition guitars were distributed in the US and UK by the Woolworth chain.

The prize on this guitar is the goldfoil pickups and I've already used them for another project. It is a unknown Audition model 2 pickup Electric Guitar from the 1960's with 2 goldfoil pickups.