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Kazuo Yairi inspired many innovations that are still used in Alvarez guitars today, including the Direct Coupled Bridge, careful selection of tonewoods, and manual carving a practice that he referred to as "listening with your hands". Louis Music in the late 1960s to bring Alvarez Guitars to the market. Alvarez Yairi take the name of master luthier Kazuo Yairi(1932-2014) who partnered with St. Alvarez Yairi have been the guitar of choice for many professional touring musicians including Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ani DiFranco, and Joe Bonamassa. Masterworks Series Īlvarez Yairi guitars are a handmade flagship series, crafted in the Yairi factory in Kani, Japan. In 2017 Artist Series began adding new key features and models including armrests, travel guitars like the Delta DeLite and LJ2, and ATR (Advanced Tonal Response) system. Alvarez Artist Series has won several awards, including a 5/5 rating in Acoustic Guitar Magazine and a nomination for best guitar series from The Music and Sound Retailer.
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Artist Series Īlvarez has stated that its goal with Artist Series is to deliver pro level guitars at excellent value through the close attention to detail. The nut width is slimmer than the standard size and the neck has been custom shaped to be comfortable for smaller hands. In 2018 Alvarez released the Regent School Series designed specifically for students. With one of the best of the series the RD8, being discontinued. Regent Series Īlvarez considers Regent Series a high quality entry-level line of guitars designed to give younger players and players new to the instrument a positive learning experience. Series Īlvarez Guitars manufactures many models of guitar which are categorized by price point and specialty into series.
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Every Alvarez guitar undergoes a full set up and inspection in their guitar shop in St. While many of its models are produced in China, the top-tier Alvarez-Yairi instruments are handmade at the Yairi factory in Kani, Gifu- Japan, part of the legacy of Kazuo Yairi, the late master luthier. 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.
