![]() This instrument, as well as its regular-scale guitar equivalent, can be heard extensively on Blonde Redhead s early albums of the 90s, where they used its wide range to switch between bass and guitar melodies in the course of single songs. It had an off-set body shape similar to a Jazzmaster, but with an extended top horn, a monkey handle cutout on the left-facing side of the bridge and a Fender -style headstock with an oversized scroll. Teisco six-string bass followed an unusual body shape that was used on one of their guitars. This is one of the reasons these guitars became popular again during the 90s among many noise artists as a cheaper alternative for the Fender Jaguar or Jazzmaster, which were beginning to attract collector interest. ![]() When the strings are attacked behind the bridge, a 3rd bridge sound is created. The light weight of this guitar is a bonus to the sonic attributes. He talked the manager into a trade, took the guitar home, rebuilt it and has played it on stage ever since. ![]() He has played Teisco guitars since childhood and just before joining Peter Noone in 2001 found this one from the Teisco 1964 line screwed to the wall at a Guitar Center as junk art. ![]() Hound Dog Taylor famously used a variety of these Kawai-era Teiscos, which he bought at his local Sears department store.Īlso, James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins played a K-2L, which can seen in the music video for Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song) as well as the inside of the Pisces Iscariot CD jewel case.īen Waugh (Scott Campbell), singer guitarist for Apparition, The Sillies, and Scott Campbell Group played a modified ET-200 onstage and for studio recordings until it was stolen in 1985. The vast amount of controls typically an individual switch for each pickup, plus a tone or phase-cancellation switch, along with as many as five tone and volume knobs gave a wide variety of sounds yet were easily switched while playing. Teisco guitars became notable for unusual body shapes, such as the May Queen design resembling an artists palette, or other unusual features such as having four pickups (most guitars have two or three). ( Kawai Gakki Seisakusho), who discontinued the Teisco brand name for guitars in 1969 (1977 in Japan), but continued to use it for electronic keyboards until the 1980s.įrom 1948 to the early 1960s Teisco products often, like many Japanese products of the period, shared several designs with American and Western European products of the time including Hagstrm and EKO. In 1967, the company was acquired by Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. ![]() The company was originally called Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo (roughly: Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories). ![]()
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