Friday, January 28, 2011

Teisco - Retro Space Guitars

It seems that since 1940's, people are already looking other ways to shape the guitar. If you don't do your homework, you might thought that electric guitars all looks like Les Pauls and Stratocasters and Telecasters. Wrong!!! You see lots of LP and Starts because they got very famous and common. The weird looking guitars all didn't make it, just like "why" Testament didn't make it to the Big 4 (Metallica/Megadeth/Anhtrax/Slayer..\m/).
SO here you go, TEISCO - Tokyo Electric Instrument & Sound Company . A widely exported brand to the USA as an affordable range of instruments(guitars/bass/keyboards/amps/drums) to the USA during  the 40's to the 60's.



They were known for the unique bodies and weird shapes. To me they look very awesome, later bought over by Kawai during 1968 if i'm not mistaken. In USA they were called Teisco Del Ray, now very rare and people are looking for it over the net. I think they are new reissues.Damn expensive. If you google Teisco's image sure alot photos show up.
The primitive bridge that cannot do intonation and the bigsby all looked awesome.
Looked abit like ultraman or maskman, you know those japanese drama for kids.




The niceeee thing about this babies are, the logo on the headstock. They are real metal logos, not waterslide stickers like guitars nowadays.So this badges not easy to imitate. Too good to be true. All these retro looking guitars sometimes got 4 pickups or 5 and got on off clickers for each, LOL. Seems like the Eastwood Guitars that Jack White uses.

Anyway, if you guys ever got a chance on these you might find the build and design are all very alien. Don't hassle to try these, sure very historical.


3 comments:

  1. Hi there Music star academy.
    It results that i have the guitar shown in this post, the last picture of a guitar. I know is a Teisco guitar model, but i need to know the exact model, the year, and if you can, its value.
    Thank you, and i'll be grateful if you might help me.

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  2. I have one like the last pic too. Mine is in best conditions than the pictured there but, doesn`t have the Teisco logo. Did you know where i can get one? Thanks.

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  3. Me pasa lo mismo tengo el mismo modelo de la,foto

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