Teisco was one of several manufactures of guitars in Japan in the 60's-70's. Once that happens, it often gets repeated, until it's difficult to tell which is the correct identification.įor instance, your guitar which has been identified as a 'Teisco/Audition model 7003'. Much of the info you hear on a given instrument is provided by someone who wants to sell one, and sometimes the goal to get as much money as possible results in mis-identification on instruments. Things have changed, and while such guitars could be had for $20 at a yard sale a couple of decades ago, the combination of Baby Boomers wanting to buy back the youth by collecting their first guitar, along with the fact that a lot of Indie artist picked-up such guitars cheap, has caused the market-value and interesting in these types of instruments to grow. They were thought of as budget-models for the (mostly) US market, and few people were collecting documentation on them. When your guitar was first made, I doubt many people thought that these types of Japanese-made guitar would still be played fifty-years later.
I'm not trying to pick an argument with /u/by-yourname, but rather I'm hoping to give OP a bit of background on her guitar and the confusing history of such guitars.
