1. Nagoya Suzuki Violin

Serial number question. Nagoya Suzuki's have a 6 digit serial number stamped on the inside. Hi i have a suzuki guitar the serial number jus says 4-4 What does. Very nice early 70s Suzuki classical. Has a solid cedar top and a really rich deep sound. The Japanese really made some great guitars in the 70s and this one is no exception.

Many people have posed this question to me about their older Nagoya Suzuki. Am I supposed to have steel strings or nylon strings on this guitar? On some of the older models: the #6,7,9,12, and 18, the answer is not immediately obvious, since all these models have slotted headstocks like a classical, and the saddle in the bridge is like a classical.not angled (compensated) like an acoustic steel-string. But they have truss rods like an acoustic. The answer is: steel!

I have an old Suzuki brochure that describes these guitars and it says they were steel stringed-guitars. Although some people put nylon strings on them, they were made for steel. So don't be afraid to put steel strings on them. A couple of observations: I took apart a #18 (lost pictures when hard-drive crashed).removed the top and found out it was ladder-braced, and I assume so are the other older models mentioned. Ladder bracing was an old way of internal bracing steel-string guitars.

All these too are laminate tops. Also, the fret-board on the #18 was flat, not radiused like most other steel strings (same with the other models I'm assuming). The rosette was faux-MOP or nylon, which also goes with an acoustic model. The headstock rollers are thinner than classical rollers. I changed the bracing to a fan-braced top and put in tone bars ala Overholtzer book on classical guitar-making. I didn't have any purling so I replaced the top binding with pieces of straight inlay pieces and glued them in. The end result was nice and jangly.

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I liked it, but being new to the setup work I didn't put in enough relief so the strings buzzed a bit, though the saddle was very high and action was low.

Nagoya Suzuki Violin

Nagoya Suzuki started making guitars as early as 1914, but stopped manufacturing them around 1980. Original price can be identified by the serial number, such as c-10, f-10,or w-10 (’c’ stands for classic, ‘f’ for folk, ‘w’ for western, and 10 means the price is 10000 yen). So 420 could mean the original price of your guitar was 42000 yen.

Recent internet auction prices here in Japan of those Nagoya Suzuki guitars manufactured around 1970’s range from 3000 to 20000 yen ($37 -$245). Since yours has ‘e’ in front of ‘c’, I am wondering if it is a special version of classic guitar. Which Suzuki did you talked to? You may be interested in asking these people if you haven’t:. You must to post comments. A note about the discussion forum: Public discussion forum posts are viewable by anyone. Anyone can read the forums, but you must create an account with your email address to post.

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