As early as 2011, SLM senior vice president Chris Meikle has acted as Alvarez head of development, overseeing the redesign of Artist Series and other models and rolling out new instrument lines such as the 2014 Masterworks Series, the Alvarez 50th anniversary 1965 Series, Alvarez-Yairi Honduran Series and the Grateful Dead Series. Louis Music) brought the management and distribution of the guitars back to St. In 2009, Mark Ragin (owner of US Band & Orchestra and St. įrom 2005 to 2009, the brand was owned by LOUD Technologies, which also owned Mackie, Ampeg, Crate and other music-related brands. Yairi” in Europe and other parts of the world. Similar instruments were also sold under the factory brand of “K.

Louis Music's Spanish guitar line “Alvarez”.

Louis Music and the Yairi factory started to design and develop steel string acoustic guitars and imported them into the United States. Louis Music's founder, Gene Kornblum, met Kazuo Yairi, a Master Luthier in Japan who produced handmade concert classical guitars. Alvarez manufactures steel-strings, classical guitars, ukuleles and, for a time, solid and hollow-body electric guitars and basses. It's a great acoustic for electric players.Alvarez is a guitar brand founded in 1965 by the owner and distributor St. The neck is fast with nicely finished frets and low action. It comes with the original case and hang tag which shows a retail price of $2,399. I purchased it new and it has spent most of its life in storage. This guitar is in mint condition with little to no play wear. Bound ebony fretboard, abalone rosette, multiple body binding, bound ebony headstock veneer, and gold die-cast tuners with amber buttons. The expressive System 500 electronics for premium acoustic-electric amplification. A unique coupled bridge design for greater stability and lighter bracing, leading to freer tone. Here's a YouTube video that captures the look and sound of this model pretty well: - this is NOT the actual instrument. It is one of the best-looking acoustics you will find.

This Alvarez WY1K model is constructed of premium Hawaiian koa with meticulous attention to fit and finish. The woods are naturally air dried and crafted into instruments with individually hand-shaped bracing and dovetail neck joints. Handcrafted in an old-fashioned workshop in a Japanese mountain village under the personal guidance of master luthier Kazuo Yairi, Alvarez Yairi guitars are made with extremely choice tonewoods. Mint used Alvarez Yairi WY1K (Koa) acoustic/electric guitar with original HSC

Alvarez k yairi acoustic guitars