Market saw a variety of guitars that Morris imported from Japan. In 1978, Morris introduced the Tornado line, thin body acoustic-electric guitars inspired by the Ovation design. In 1974, Morris introduced their guitars at the NAMM show. Since then, Morris Guitars have enjoyed an outstanding reputation in Japan and other countries for making high quality guitars.
Morris produced copies of dreadnought and small jumbo models based on Martin and Gibson designs. He named it Morris, taken from the nickname given to him a while back. In 1967, he founded the Morris Guitars company. Moridaira was able to visit the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Īn employee at Gibson nicknamed him “Mori” at that time. In 1964, due to his working relationship with Gibson, Mr. Toshio Moridaira, the founder, was the first distributor in Japan to carry both Fender and Gibson lines.
The Morris Guitars company has been building quality handcrafted instruments in Nagano, Japan for a long time. Othat than that I don't know much about Morris guitars. I have a 1970 Morris A-12 six string acoustic which has mellowed very nicely with age. Q: When was my guitar made? A: The new, 10-digit serial numbering format identifies the factory of production, year, date and the assigned number of the.
