Indeed, through their mid-’60s connection with the Sears and Roebuck company, many a modern guitar player learned his or her first chops on a Silvertone made in Japan by the Teisco company. 62331 Gardiner Houlgate Guitar Catalogue. Ovation Parts Catalog For Acoustic & Electric/Acoustic Cliquez sur une image. For stereo output – bass through one channel, treble through the other – two jacks were used. Few non-American guitar brands have meant so much to so many American guitar buffs as Teisco guitars. 70s Ovation MAGNUM IIIUSA999: 1960s TEISCO Beatle BassJapan650: Created. The name of this guitar derived from the switches’ ability to produce five tonal colors – a “spectrum of sound” – which could be used alone or in any combination. 1953: The EP-6 is intruduced, a Spanish archtop with possibly a single neck pickup. Vintage Teisco Style Gold Foil Guitar Pickup / Alnico 5. Vintage Teisco Style Gold Foil Guitar Pickup / Alnico 5 P90 Dog Ear Staple Pickups / Alnico 5. All guitars at this point had a Gibson three-and-three headstock style. About Us Contact Form Builders COMMUNITY Search. 1952: The first standard guitar, the EO-180, is a Spanish acoustic guitar fitted with a mic pickup. The vibrato had an integral bridge that moved with the assembly to eliminate friction and wear on the strings. The first products to carry the Teisco name were mics, amps and a lap steel guitar. Catalog SKU number of the notation is 476008. Some Spectrums had natural-faced headstocks, others had matching colors. Guitar Tabs Universe I love the way they hips now when its stuck in the farm. The four-and-two tuner arrangement on the headstock was used on other Teiscos, but the plastic faceplate adds a tasteful touch. Catalogs Rare Japanese guitar catalogs & documents (in Japanese) (catalog archive). It's in the mail, should have it early next week.Īs the ’66 Teisco Del Rey catalog boasts, the Spectrum 5 “has unique features which no other guitar in the world can match.” While the mahogany body with Mosrite-inspired German-carve edge, the seven layer, hand-rubbed lacquer finish, and Kay-influenced fretboard inlays were standard for the Spectrum series, the staggered pickups with stereo/mono output and a five-ply ebony neck were unique to the 5. genealogy of Firstman & Mosrite: Kawai Gakki, Teisco, Firstman, Honey, Mosrite, etc. You so rarely see these, I figured this was a good time as ever to snap it up.
I have a soft (or hard, I guess ) spot for vintage blue guitars, and once I saw this was up for sale, I had to make it mine.