Louis Music Company in the early 1970s, but Kazuo ended up getting an exclusive contract with St. Both Sadao and Kazuo made guitars for Alvarez/St. Yairi Guitars in Kani, which is about 30 minutes from Nagoya. Yairi guitars in Nagoya and Kazuo Yairi starting up K. In the late 1960s Sada and Kazuo went their own way and began making guitars under their own label, with Sada establishing S. Nagoya is the major industrial port city in Aichee prefecture and one of Japan's long established guitar making centers. The older Sadao, had worked as a guitar and violin maker at the Suzuki, Takehuru factory in Nagoya and then later opened his own business, Yairi & Son, which operated until about 1970-71. The consensus is that Sadao and Kazuo Yairi are cousins who learned guitar making from Kazuo Yairi‘s dad, also named Sadao Yairi. Information on Sadao Yairi is scant and a number of Japanese Sadao Yairi collectors confirm that Sadao Yairi’s guitar making history is shrouded in mystery especially after a 1990s statement by Kazuo Yairi, of Alvarez Yairi fame, that Kazuo and Sadao have no working relationship. During the early 1990s, he had a line of handmade guitars sold by Samick in S. He also manufactured guitars for B&M (distributed in the UK) Lowden, Sherry-Brener and a few guitars for Alvarez of St. He sold guitars under a number of labels including Sadao Yairi, Yairi Gakki, S. Sadao or Sada Yairi was a guitar maker and guitar manufacturer from Nagoya, Japan who was active from the 1960s to the 1990s. While off looking for information on the Shinko Guitar Company I ran across this blurb on S. I am very impressed with both of them and would appreciate any info you can share re history and value and rating. I had never heard of S Yairi until a few weeks ago when I bought the classical guitar. I own several guitars including a Martin D18. This came with a taay but solid guitar case. It now looks pretty good and plays beautifully with an amazing tone.
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I have refinished the back of the guitar and replaced the machineheads.
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It had been on display in a Carribean Club in Liverpool and had been maltreated as someone had glued foam rubber to its back which ruined the finish. Guitar 2 is an S Yairi B & M Virtuoso classical guitar.
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It has been fully restored by a luthier and plays beautifully. The table was "bellying" at the bridge, it needed new machineheads, a nut, new bridge and saddle and fret dressing. I bought it off Ebay and it was in a state.
K YAIRI GUITARS EBAY SERIAL NUMBER
Model number reads 710 and serial number is 594. It looks like a Martin D18 only it has a truss rod cover on the headstock which a D18 doesn't have. Guitar 1 is an S Yairi acoustic hand made instrument.