MADE IN 1972 FANTASTIC SHINANO GS300 CLASSICAL CONCERT GUITAR IN MINT CONDITION

MADE IN 1972 FANTASTIC SHINANO GS300 CLASSICAL CONCERT GUITAR IN MINT CONDITION

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MADE IN 1972 FANTASTIC SHINANO GS300 CLASSICAL CONCERT GUITAR IN MINT CONDITION

Brand: SEIZO SHINANO
;Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan

MADE IN 1972 FANTASTIC SHINANO GS300 CLASSICAL CONCERT GUITAR IN MINT CONDITION

Please read my 7 days return policy at the bottom of the page.

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Shinano model GS300

This guitar was made in 1972 under supervision of Master Luthier Seizo Shinano. 

If you watch my postings you should have noticed that I always have a few Shinano guitars for sale. The reason is very simple: THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIC GUITARS for the money you can own them.

Mr.Seizo Shinano was a very skilled and highly regarded Master Luthier who founded Shinano Muisical Inst. Mfg. Co. LTD in mid1960s. In the past he has earned my deepest respect for his guitars made in late 1960s/ early 1970s. Since my first encounter with my first Shinano (SC30) guitar I am constantly on the hunt for these guitars. To be precise for (GS) Grand Shinano and SC series, beyond any doubt very high grade guitars. Models made by this factory in mid 1960s were from introductory (models 13 to 43) through intermediate (53 to 63) and high end (73 through 93). Models Shinano 73 (all solid woods Spruce top Indian Rosewood b/s), Shinano 83 (solid Spruce top, solid Brazilian R. Back, laminated BR sides) and Shinano 93 (all solid woods with Spruce/BR) are greatly respected by Japanese players and considered as concert guitars.

By early 1970s the labelling system of Shinano guitars changed to SC (Shinano Concert) and GS models. 

This guitar, that you are looking at is yet another example of superb musical instrument made by Shinano Co. 

In 1972 a yearly salary of Japanese college graduate was 59 300 yen. This guitar was priced 30 000 yen. 

This Shinano GS300 is absolutely high grade full size classical guitar, producing well balanced sweet and clean high notes with resonating basses, at very impressive volume, all well balanced and with fantastic sustain. Calling it a Concert guiatr is not a mistake at all. This guitar can easily beat any brand new $5000 guitar available on US market.

This guitar remains in perfect working and practically mint cosmetic condition. It doesn't have any visible cosmetic flaws on its surfaces although definitely it has been played in the past. 

Specifications:

Top: Solid Spruce/very thin layer of lacquer

Back and sides:  Solid Rosewood/very thin layer of lacquer

Neck: Mahogany with Rosewood Insert

Fingerboard: Ebony or very well ebonized Rosewood

Scale: 650 mm

Nut width: 50 mm

The action is set to 3.50 mm under E6 and 3.00 mm under E1mm, with plenty of extra room on the saddle.

This guitar will be shipped in used hard case in still very good condition, however of minimal value. You don’t pay for the case. You only pay for the guitar. Please consider this case as a free bonus and don’t expect too much. I will not accept any complaints regarding the condition of the case.   

 

Some info about Shinano guitars:

http://bluebookofguitarvalues.com

Instruments previously produced in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s.
Shinano was a trademark and possibly the name of a luthier who built classical guitars in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. It is reported that Shinano guitars were distributed by Daion, but it is unknown if Shinano guitars were distributed in the U.S. by Daion's distributor MCI, Inc. in Waco, TX. Shinano guitars appear to built of mid- to high quality, but it is unknown if they were factory or hand-built. Any further information on Shinano can be submitted directly to Blue Book Publications.

http://www.acousticguitarforum.com

The complex story of Yamaki guitars is entwined with the histories of a number of other Japanese companies. In the late 1940s, brothers Yasuyuki and Kazuyuki Teradaira started working for Tatsuno Mokko, an instrument-building firm that later split into two different companies, one of which was called Hayashi Gakki. In 1954 Hayashi Gakki was bought out by Zenon, a large music distributor. In 1962 Yasuyuki left Zenon to start an instrument distributor he called Daion, which means “big sound” in Japanese. In 1967 Kazuyuki left Zenon to produce classical guitars under the name Yamaki, an auspicious Japanese word meaning “happy trees on the mountain.” By the early 1970s, Kazuyuki expanded the Yamaki line to include a large number of steel-string guitars, many of which were based on C.F. Martin and Co.’s designs and were distributed exclusively through Daion. Along with Yamaki guitars, Daion sold instruments from Shinano, Mitsura Tamura, Chaki, and Hamox, some of which were built by Yamaki at various times, and Harptone guitars, which they imported from the US. 

Sometime in the late 1960s, Daion began exporting Yamaki guitars to America, where they were well received. By the early 1980s, however, Daion felt that the Yamaki Martin-style guitars were getting lost among similar instruments from other Japanese builders like Takamine, Yasuma, and C.F. Mountain, so they redesigned the entire acoustic line and started building acoustic-electrics and solid-body electrics as well as oddities like double-neck acoustics. They dropped the Yamaki name and rebranded their instruments as Daion guitars. Daion began an extensive advertising campaign to introduce the new line around 1982, but this was a time when musicians were more interested in the new MIDI-equipped synthesizers than in guitars. In 1984 Daion stopped importing guitars to America and soon went out of business. Yamaki, on the other hand, survived the downturn of the 1980s and now makes parts for other Japanese guitar companies. 

Real Value of Japanese Vintage Guitars

The key to understand value of vintage Japanese guitars is to acknowledge galloping devaluation of Japanese yen in 1960s & 1970s. This devaluation was somewhat slower in 1980s. The best measure of this devaluation is Starting Yearly Salary of Japanese College Graduate (SYSJCG).

SYSJCG in in 1965 was 19 600 yen, in 1969 – 34 600 yen, in 1970 39 200 yen, in 1972 – 62 300 yen, in 1975 79 200 yen, in 1977 121 200 yen and in 1980 - 163 000 yen.

During 1960s and most of 1970s model numbers of Japanese guitars were strictly interconnected with their prices in Japanese yen. In late 1970s and during following decades model numbers were no longer strictly associated with their prices. Many Japanese guitar makers introduced model names instead of model numbers. Others were still using model numbers with addition of letter abbreviations or other symbols.  

The best and only logical approach while evaluating real value (real grade) of vintage Japanese guitar is to compare its price in Japanese yen with SYSJCG during the year guitar was made.

Any guitar priced 100 000 in 1970 (labelled usually as No10) would be priced 200 000 yen in 1975 (relabeled to No20 or 2000), 300 000 yen in 1977 (labelled as No3, No30 or 3000). Starting in 1977 Masaru Kohno introduced his model No50 priced at 500 000 (skipping theoretical model 40). Soon other famous Japanese luthiers did the same. By 1983 Kohno started using model names instead numbers and was raising their prices as he was pleased. Naturally soon other Master luthiers did the same.

Knowing all of that, you can bet on that Masaru Kohno No50 made in 1982 is practically the same quality as Kohno No15 made in 1972, or Kohno no20 made in 1975 or Kohno No30 made in 1977. I know it for a fact.

The lowest grade models currently made by Matsuoka workshop are M75 and MH75. They are commonly considered as “beginner guitars”. Matsuoka model M30 made in 1973 is simply far, far better instrument. It is naturally better than model M50 made in 1977, model 80 made in 1982 or model M100 made in 1990. At present, the highest grade Matsuoka models are M300 and MH300. They absolutely stand no chance in competition with model M150 made in 1975… or model M200 made in 1977.

It is very important to mention that if modern era luthiers are using 40 years old woods to make a classical guitar, its price is at least $8000.

Returns

If you are not happy with your purchase you may return the guitar for a refund of a purchase price of a guitar.  The cost of shipping both ways will not be refunded.

All you need to do is to:

1.    Notify me within 5 days after delivery   

2.    Pack guitar the same way I do it, using the same box and materials

3.    Ship it back to me within next 2 days

 

Another words I expect this “trail” period to occur within +/- 7 days. Naturally guitar has to be returned in the same condition as I ship it to you. This is simply honest offer for honest buyers. My goal is to make your purchase as risk free as possible. I know very well that spending $1000 of hard earned money is not emotionally easy undertaking for majority of guitar lovers. I am sure that reading my feedback can ease a bit your “purchase anxiety” but it still will be there no matter how hard I try.

Victor                                                              

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