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RemiP le 12 Déc 2017, 13:07
K.Yairi était le nom d'un luthier dont la production ultérieure (et industrielle !) est davantage connue sous les noms Alvarez et Alvarez-Yairi. J'ai trouvé ça sur un blog de "yairi-geek" américain :
The K. Yairi Y series (including Y80) were the precursors to the Alvarez Yairi CY classical models.
The “Y series” classical guitar line was sold from the late 1960s to 1974. Actually two different guitar lines were sold as Y series guitars:
o “Round Black Label” – late 1960s to early 1970s
o ” Rectangular Tan Label” – 1971 to 1974.
If your particular guitar has the early “Round Black Label” means that it was made prior to 1972. The numbers stamped on the heelblock show it to be a 1974, so it should have the tan label. These guitars do NOT use the serial numbers for dating purposes.
BTW, the Round Yairi label is a take off of a round Ramirez Estudio Guitar Label. Yairi also used the Ramirez 1A rosette on many of his
guitars including the CY130, CY135, YC150, YC100, Y150, and Y100.
“Black Label” Y series guitars are different from the “Beige Label” Y Series. While the “Beige Label” guitars are similar in construction to current YC / CY classicals introduced in 1975, the “Black Label” classical guitars are distant cousins of the current YC/CY line and represent Kazuo Yairi’s early efforts in classical guitar making.
The “Black Label” guitars have Brazilian rosewood fingerboards instead of ebony, more spruce tops, bigger necks, longer scales, cedar
lining, large rosettes, and diamond marquetry headplates.
The most important difference between the early Y and later Y / YC series was that different bracing and construction methods were used.
Some of the early Y guitars have very odd neck/heel extensions and neck bracing. Many did not have the traditional carved Spanish slipper
heel that is seen in the current crop of CY classicals, but have uncarved neck blocks with extra neck extensions and bracing on the top
as opposed to the bottom of the guitar.
There were a large number of models in the Y series including the 15, 30, 40, 50, 70, 80, 100, 150, 400, 800, 850, 1000 and 1500 (I’ve heard there were higher models, but haven’t seen them yet). So your guitar is a low mid level model. ALL OF THE MODELS HAD a solid top with LAMINATED SIDES. A few of the higher Rosewood/Jacaranda models had solid backs.
