
Also, of played a K-2L, which can seen in the music video for as well as the inside of the CD jewel case. Famously used a variety of these Kawai-era Teiscos, which he bought at his local department store.
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The vast amount of controls typically an individual switch for each pickup, plus a tone or phase-cancellation switch, along with as many as five tone and volume knobs gave a wide variety of sounds yet were easily switched while playing.Īfter bought Teisco in 1967, they started to produce all the Teisco guitars, as well as their own brand, Apollo. Teisco guitars became notable for unusual body shapes, such as the May Queen design resembling an artist's palette, or other unusual features such as having four (most guitars have two or three). Original designs (1960s) Teisco MJ-2L (1963/1965) Teisco K4L (1966) Teisco Spectrum 2 (S/N 374919) Teisco Spectrum 2 (ca.1969) However, in the early 1960s Teisco products became increasingly unique. Similar designs (early 1960s) (ca.ġ960) (1960-1962) Teisco SS-4L (1962) (1960s) From 1948 to the early 1960s Teisco products often, like many Japanese products of the period, shared several designs with American and Western European products of the time including and. These brands were typically sold in large department stores, including, (US), and (UK). Likewise, they were imported in the U.K under such labels as Arbiter, Sonatone, Audition, and Top Twenty. Under several brand names including, Kent, Beltone, Duke, Encore, Heit Deluxe, Hy Lo, Jedson, Kimberly, Kingston, Lyle, Norma, Tulio and World Teisco. Teisco guitars were also imported in the U.S.


Products Guitars Teisco guitars were imported to the United States since 1959 or early 1960, and then re-badged as 'Teisco Del Rey' after 1964. In 1967, the company was acquired by (河合楽器製作所 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho), who discontinued the Teisco brand name for guitars in 1969 (1977 in Japan), but continued to use it for electronic keyboards until the 1980s. In 1956, the company name was changed to Nippon Onpa Kogyo Co., and changed to Teisco Co. The company was originally called Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo (roughly: Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories).

The company was founded in 1946 by renowned Hawaiian and Spanish guitarist Atsuwo Kaneko and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. However, the exact name of company establishing and producing the Teisco brand was not that name, and rather, they had frequently renamed their company.
