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Soaring prices for vintage domestic electric guitars, doubling the listing price

Updated: Aug 29, 2022



Domestically produced electric guitars manufactured decades ago are gaining popularity. It is said that copy models of long-established American manufacturers are called "Japan vintage" and enthusiasts are competing to buy them. Why are old domestic electrics selling well now? We visited Ochanomizu, the town of musical instruments.

"I'm surprised by the popularity of Japanese vintage items. I think prices will still go up" as enthusiasts compete to buy because these guitars approaching the original product created by the "Japanese craftsman spirit". A 41-year-old male salesclerk at the used guitar specialty store Shimokura Second Hands (Chiyoda Ward) in Ochanomizu, Tokyo, says so excitedly.

Products that are gaining popularity in the 1970s and 1980s are products that Japanese companies copied guitars from long-established American guitar makers Fender and Gibson.

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Original News Source: (c) The Yomiuri Shimbun Online #akonikk

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