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Acoustic Guitar, December, 2008 by Saufley, Charles
Fishman Aura-equipped thinline acoustic makes daring style statement in a performance-ready package.
Kazuo Yairi is justly regarded as one of Japan's greatest luthiers. His partnership with American distributor St. Louis Music (now part of Loud Technologies) - which birthed the Alvarez-Yairi brand in the mid-'60s - has been one of the most consistently fruitful partnerships in modern guitar history. He has also always been an innovator, contributing design concepts to guitars for Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia that mated traditionally built bodies ...
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