Did the company burn down???? Why did they go out of business??

by king koeller on Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:09 am

I'm curious. What really happened to the old factory?

If anybody knows...
Please shed some light! Thanks!

by **corsair** on Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:28 am

Here you go; the story so far, courtesy of the Matsumoku site...

http://www.matsumoku.org/arai_matsumoku.html

by badger on Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:05 pm

king koeller wrote:I'm curious. What really happened to the old factory?

If anybody knows...
Please shed some light! Thanks!

The factory was owned by Singer, and they closed it down, I believe due to a downturn in the sewing machine market (Matsumoku originally made wooden cabinets for singer machines before they started making instruments) and bad exchange rates. There was no fire, or earthquake or anything like that.

(Shiro Arai of Aria has confirmed that in an interview with Guitar Buyer magazine in 1986 - there's a link to scans of the article here -
http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/viewtopic.php?t=3360 )

by king koeller on Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:34 pm

Thanks for setting the record straight!

I always wondered what happened.

These guitars and basses are too good to be so unfamiliar in todays market.

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