On August 2nd, 1956, ARAI & CO., INC was founded.Īt this time, although demand for classical guitars and accessories were increasing, it was still comparatively low and business was supplemented with other products including woollen material. Recognising an increĪsing demand for guitars from friends and players throughout Japan, Shiro grasped the opportunity to start his own business. These were the first classical guitars imported into post-war Japan and included instruments from renowned makers Jose Ramirez and Hermann Hauser. In 1954 unable to buy guitars, music and strings in Japan’s music stores, Shiro started to import classical guitars, Augustine guitar strings, and musical scores for himself and his students. In order to live and settle the outstanding debts from this first business he started to teach the guitar. After the fledgling company failed after just one year Shiro found himself homeless with nothing but his guitar. In 1953, Shiro and two of his colleagues resigned their positions and founded their own trading firm. Shiro started work for a trading company in 1947, aged 17. Now playing day and night, his passion for the guitar brought him to a famous classical guitar master in Nagoya, and soon became one of his students. The very next day, Shiro bought his first guitar, costing over two months salary and began to teach himself to play. From this moment, he had been inspired by the sound o f this instrument forever. Pular music, but instead his friend started to play a piece by Bach. Shiro was expecting to hear Koga-type Japanese po One day, a friend came to visit Shiro’s apartment with a guitar. “It all started with the classical guitar”, says Shiro Arai, Chairman and the founder of Aria Guitars. TA 61 is a perfect instrument, most poitilleux change the easel microT by PAF di Marzio, and for barely 800 euros, you want the guitar of a lifetime.The History of Aria Guitars (Arai & Co., Inc.) However, Caution "TA 61" is an Aria Pro 2, so beware of reditions under the "ARIA" that are cute and China between 450 and 800 euros depending on the model.
Buy 799 euros in a vintage guitar shop, I do not think this guitar would fit my skin. This guitar does my fourth instrument and will definitely be my last.
Let me explain, in my case I do not play with the aria in concert, which allows me to not lug around 3 fly box with me! Before buying BP 61, I possdais a standard strat, a Takamine electro-acoustic and Les Paul studio.īecause or thanks to the variatone that the conjugate 3 position selector offers 18 sonnorits either fender or gibson o very acoustic and even really Jazz, one comes to wonder why possesder several guitar. Saturation mode, sounds are downright sublime, it is easy to take for Carlos Santana. The bridge pickup lacks a little thick, but you can turn it into an advantage if one wants to play Chuck Berry or rock'n'roll. In intermediary position, you can play vintage rock, solos the shadows. The neck pickup is really captivating! We shudder.
The variatone six positions will exit the Blues to go tter funk and acoustic. The guitar is just beautiful, especially in its finish Blonde.īut it is not only beautiful, unlike the current Chinese and even the Gibson guitar that are often very very poor quality (for the price) since 1984, TA 61 offers sonnorits tr s vintage and bonnifie time. You can play very fast and long without harm to piognet and fingers. It is also much more modern in its design. Its competitor of the era was the piphone Cheratone but it is the aria Suprieure in terms of quality. The neck is thinner than the Gibson 335 and much faster. The frets are quite high compared a strat but it allows a very accuracy of all intonation. It has the same configuration as the gibson and a golden bridge tailpiece.Ĭt electronics, there are two alnico PAF and a variatone for absolute poluvalence. It is a true hollow box RALIS e in a very beautiful essence of maple. The TA61 was manufactured from 1985 t in 1987 in Japan, these versions are identifiable by their varnishes "narural" or "blonde" then core until 1992.