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WONDERFUL R.MATSUOKA MH100 HAUSER STYLE CLASSICAL GUITAR IN NEAR MINT CONDITION
Estimated price for orientation: 1 200 $
Category: Classical Guitars
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Description Brand: R.Matsuoka Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan MPN: 209003 UPC: Does not apply
At first glance it gives an impression of being a brand new instrument. At very close inspection (while flipping guitar towards the light) one may see few microscopic marks on its top, couple on its back and few along its edges. When I say "microscopic" I mean it. Regarding the sound this guitar is very competitive to much more expensive instruments, made by much more famous guitar makers. The guitar has very unique & sweet sound, with clear trebles and deep basses, with great sustain and decent volume. It is definitely comparable with many guitar models available on US market in price range $2500 - $3000.All Ryoji Matsuoka models, including lower numbers, are high quality guitars with very good volume and very clean and balanced notes. The fact that the lower models have laminated back & sides is truly of very minor importance. These laminates are made the way that is very hard to distinguish them from solid plates by naked eye and they do exactly the same job. The most important part of Matsuoka guitars is his original bracing of the soundboard which greatly enhances the volume and the sound quality.Antonio Torres, The Father of Modern Era Classical Guitar, has made a great sounding guitar with cardboard back and sides just to prove their relative irrelevance as the factor influencing overall sound quality of the guitar. Description* Ryoji Matsuoka MH100* Herman Houser style body and headstock* High Grade Solid Spruce Top with original Matsuoka bracing (bracing on this guitar resembles a lattice bracing)* “Wonder Rose” Indian Rosewood Doubleplate for back and sidesCalling this construction "laminates" would actually be very incorrect and quite misleading. This genuine Japanese invention has really nothing in common with modern era cheap particle-board laminates. This construction is nothing but 2 solid wood plates glued together, hence in fact nothing but reinforced solid woods. Such plates perform no different from solid woods, while don't crack as easily, are much easier to work with, and allow for much lower prices of these instruments. Such guitars have always been and still are a true blessing for all guitar enthusiasts with limited funds.This laminated “Wonder Rose” rosewood has undergone a special chemical treatment leading to much stronger bonds between wood cells and as the result it has the same properties as solid rosewood AA grade. At the same time this laminated rosewood is more resistant to cracking, less expensive an easier to work with. The same guitar with solid rosewood AA grade would cost at least twice that much, but sounding exactly the same. Ryoji Matsuoka’s business philosophy has always been to make high grade guitars that could be sold at moderate prices. For that Ryoji has always been highly respected among not only Japanese guitar students. Solid Rosewood grade AA is hard to find and used by guitar makers to build their most expensive "top of the line" models. * Mahogany neck* Ebonized Indian Rosewood for Fretboard* Bone nut and saddles* Nut width: 52mm* Scale: 650 mm* Gold hardwareIts action has been adjusted to 3.5mm under E6 and 3.0 mm under E1. Guitar is equipped with new thick padded semi-hard case.Message to Australian buyers !!!!!In order to ship a package with guitar to Australia at affordable rate +/- $100 (USPS International Priority Mail), height of such package can’t exceed 42” and its girth+ length can’t exceed 97”. Therefore I will pack the guitar into a case that is short enough to meet this requirement. Ryoji Matsuoka was well known Japanese guitar maker who has been producing guitars in Nagoya, Japan since the 1960s. Nagoya is Japan’s 4th largest city and a major industrial port city located on the main island of Honshu in Aichi prefecture. The Nagoya/Aichi/Kani area (Kani is the prefecture next to Aichee) is one of Japan’s major musical instrument making centers. The city and the outlying areas have a long classical guitar making history with many small shops producing guitars. Major guitar and violin makers include Matsumoku Industrial, Suzuki, Takaharu, Sada Yairi, Kazuo Yairi (Kani), Daion, Yamaki, Ibanez/Hoshino, and Ryoji Matsuoka. Additionally, there are numerous small guitar shops and factories that contract to larger firms, such as Yamaha in Hamamatsu.
The Ryoji Matsuoka guitar works was a small scale guitar manufacturer with less than 15 employees. For a few years during the 1960s and early 1970s, Matsuoka produced the higher end Aria guitar models for Shiro Arai, founder of Aria . These Aria models either have Ryoji Matsuoka's name on the label or are ma
Description
| Brand: | R.Matsuoka | Country/Region of Manufacture: | Japan |
| MPN: | 209003 | UPC: | Does not apply |
At first glance it gives an impression of being a brand new instrument. At very close inspection (while flipping guitar towards the light) one may see few microscopic marks on its top, couple on its back and few along its edges. When I say "microscopic" I mean it.
Regarding the sound this guitar is very competitive to much more expensive instruments, made by much more famous guitar makers. The guitar has very unique & sweet sound, with clear trebles and deep basses, with great sustain and decent volume. It is definitely comparable with many guitar models available on US market in price range $2500 - $3000.All Ryoji Matsuoka models, including lower numbers, are high quality guitars with very good volume and very clean and balanced notes. The fact that the lower models have laminated back & sides is truly of very minor importance. These laminates are made the way that is very hard to distinguish them from solid plates by naked eye and they do exactly the same job. The most important part of Matsuoka guitars is his original bracing of the soundboard which greatly enhances the volume and the sound quality.Antonio Torres, The Father of Modern Era Classical Guitar, has made a great sounding guitar with cardboard back and sides just to prove their relative irrelevance as the factor influencing overall sound quality of the guitar. Description* Ryoji Matsuoka MH100* Herman Houser style body and headstock* High Grade Solid Spruce Top with original Matsuoka bracing (bracing on this guitar resembles a lattice bracing)* “Wonder Rose” Indian Rosewood Doubleplate for back and sidesCalling this construction "laminates" would actually be very incorrect and quite misleading. This genuine Japanese invention has really nothing in common with modern era cheap particle-board laminates. This construction is nothing but 2 solid wood plates glued together, hence in fact nothing but reinforced solid woods. Such plates perform no different from solid woods, while don't crack as easily, are much easier to work with, and allow for much lower prices of these instruments. Such guitars have always been and still are a true blessing for all guitar enthusiasts with limited funds.This laminated “Wonder Rose” rosewood has undergone a special chemical treatment leading to much stronger bonds between wood cells and as the result it has the same properties as solid rosewood AA grade. At the same time this laminated rosewood is more resistant to cracking, less expensive an easier to work with. The same guitar with solid rosewood AA grade would cost at least twice that much, but sounding exactly the same. Ryoji Matsuoka’s business philosophy has always been to make high grade guitars that could be sold at moderate prices. For that Ryoji has always been highly respected among not only Japanese guitar students. Solid Rosewood grade AA is hard to find and used by guitar makers to build their most expensive "top of the line" models. * Mahogany neck* Ebonized Indian Rosewood for Fretboard* Bone nut and saddles* Nut width: 52mm* Scale: 650 mm* Gold hardwareIts action has been adjusted to 3.5mm under E6 and 3.0 mm under E1. Guitar is equipped with new thick padded semi-hard case.Message to Australian buyers !!!!!In order to ship a package with guitar to Australia at affordable rate +/- $100 (USPS International Priority Mail), height of such package can’t exceed 42” and its girth+ length can’t exceed 97”. Therefore I will pack the guitar into a case that is short enough to meet this requirement. Ryoji Matsuoka was well known Japanese guitar maker who has been producing guitars in Nagoya, Japan since the 1960s. Nagoya is Japan’s 4th largest city and a major industrial port city located on the main island of Honshu in Aichi prefecture. The Nagoya/Aichi/Kani area (Kani is the prefecture next to Aichee) is one of Japan’s major musical instrument making centers. The city and the outlying areas have a long classical guitar making history with many small shops producing guitars. Major guitar and violin makers include Matsumoku Industrial, Suzuki, Takaharu, Sada Yairi, Kazuo Yairi (Kani), Daion, Yamaki, Ibanez/Hoshino, and Ryoji Matsuoka. Additionally, there are numerous small guitar shops and factories that contract to larger firms, such as Yamaha in Hamamatsu.
The Ryoji Matsuoka guitar works was a small scale guitar manufacturer with less than 15 employees. For a few years during the 1960s and early 1970s, Matsuoka produced the higher end Aria guitar models for Shiro Arai, founder of Aria . These Aria models either have Ryoji Matsuoka's name on the label or are ma
The Ryoji Matsuoka guitar works was a small scale guitar manufacturer with less than 15 employees. For a few years during the 1960s and early 1970s, Matsuoka produced the higher end Aria guitar models for Shiro Arai, founder of Aria . These Aria models either have Ryoji Matsuoka's name on the label or are ma