I have the 12 string version and, as much as i love the shape of the neck, those guitars did have a couple of problems.Most of them did break in the spot between the neck and the headstock(so ask for detailed pics).Also, for having such a big body, they don't resonate so much, thanks to the thick layers of paint they put on.The ranger i have is good to record with, in a way, but the sound is. Demo of Vintage Violin Bass Guitar 1960's Japan Norma Eko style. Hello i recently picked up a eko 6 string electric guitar it is similiar to the 12 string cobra. It has a maple neck instead of the one shown. It has all the eko marking except no serial number wondering if someone knows anything about this guitar. Year model thanks.

Eko Music Group
Type	Private
Founded	1959
Founder	Oliviero Pigini
Headquarters	, Italy
Worldwide
Website	eko.it

Torrent adobe indesign cs5 for mac. Eko is an Italian manufacturer of electric guitars, acoustic guitars and similar instruments, catering to professional level and manufacturing largely for export. Mutate the lab rat 2 hacked arcadeprehacks unblocked. It is located in Recanati, Marche.

Products[edit]

Guitars[edit]

Their products include classical guitars, 12-string guitars, arch top guitars, electric guitars and acoustic bass guitars.

Eko guitars gained high popularity during the rock'n'roll craze of the 1960s, becoming the largest guitar exporter in Europe. Their electric models were often highly ornamented with pearl, featured 3 or 4 pickups and recognizable 'rocker' switches for pickup selection. The acoustic models were popular in country and folk rock bands of the late '60s. The best-known models of the '60s include:

Eko 400-4V Ekomaster (1960-1962)

Eko Serial Numbers

Eko 500 (1962-1965)

Eko Ranger 12 string

Eston bass, fretless but with markers (1980s)

Eko 400 Ekomaster (Fender Jaguar shape with flat-top, Hagström-style control panel),
Eko 500 (Fender Jaguar lookalike),
Eko 700 (original triple-cutaway design with 'hockey stick' head),
Eko 290 (also known as Eko Barracuda, semi-hollow flat-top electric),
Eko Rokes (rocket-shaped electric, made popular by an Italian pop band of the same name, The Rokes)
Eko Kadett ('67 original double cutaway with characteristic long 'horns') and
Eko Ranger (the best-selling Eko product, acoustic in 6 and 12-string version).
Eko 995 (violin bodied 4 string bass wildly popular in the late 60's)

Eko teardrop, Vox Mark, and Vox Phantom (Wunjo Guitars, London)

Vox Ultrasonic (1968)

Eko also produced guitars for Vox in the '60s, in the USA they were distributed through LoDuca brothers of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In the UK the instruments were imported by Rose-Morris, London.

In Australia their instruments were imported by Rose Music and often, but not always, branded with their house brandEston.

Eko guitar has been manufacturing guitars since the early 60's and continue to through present day.

Eko Guitar Serial Numbers Identification

As of 2015, Eko Guitars were imported and distributed in the United States by Kelley Distribution located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Other musical instruments[edit]

EKO Tiger combo organ^[1]
EKO Micky combo organ^[2]
EKO Bass Pedal K1 (1970s)
EKO ComputeRhythm (1972)^[3]
EKO Viscount amp head (top)
EKO equalizer 10-band graphic eq.
EKO Strepitoso wah pedal (top)

References[edit]

^'EKO Tiger/Tigermate'. Combo Organ Heaven (combo-organ.com).
^'Orange Organs'. Combo Organ Heaven (combo-organ.com).
^'EKO Computerhythm'. synthemaster.de.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eko.

Official sites

Eko Music Group (Italy)
- Eko guitars (Italy)

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Tokai Gakki Company, Ltd.
東海楽器製造株式会社
Romanized name	Tōkai Gakki Seizō Kabushiki-gaisha
Type	Private
Industry	Musical instruments
Founded	1947; 74 years ago
Founder	Tadayouki Adachi
Headquarters	,
Shohei Adachi (President)
Products	Electric and acoustic guitars, basses, autoharps^[1]
Number of employees	65
Website	tokaijapan.com

Tokai Gakki Company, Ltd. (東海楽器製造株式会社, Tōkai Gakki Seizō Kabushiki-gaisha), often referred to as Tokai Guitars, is a Japanesemusical instrument manufacturer situated in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka prefecture. Tokai is one of Japan's leading companies in the business. The company was founded in 1947 by Tadayouki Adachi and remains family-owned.

Although Tokai currently focuses on electric and acoustic guitars, basses and autoharps (called 'chromaharp'),^[1] the company manufactured other instruments such as melodicas, pianos and guitar amplifiers in the past.

History[edit]

Tokai began in 1947, as a harmonica and piano manufacturer. It developed its first melodica, the Pianica, in 1961. Tokai began making banjos and harpsichords in 1973 and the electric piano in 1975.

Tokai started making classical guitars in 1965. It made its first electric guitar in 1968 with the Humming Bird, a guitar loosely based on the Mosrite Mark I and II. This was followed in 1970 with the Humming Bird Custom acoustic guitar (not to be confused with the Hummingbird guitar model produced by Gibson).

Some Tokai guitars, with models resembling American manufacturers' guitars: fltr: Goldstand Sound, Talbo, LS-85 Love Rock, Hard Puncher bass

From 1970 to 1973, Tokai produced the Conn line of acoustic guitars under contract with C.G. Conn^[2]^[3] In 1972, Tokai entered into a joint-venture with C. F. Martin & Company to supply acoustic guitar parts and also to build Martin's Sigma electric guitars. In 1975, it launched its own Cat's Eyes line of acoustic guitars, which were replicas of C.F. Martin guitars.

Between 1977 and 1978, Tokai began making various Fender and Gibson replica electric guitars and basses. These models are generically known as 'lawsuit guitars'. Tokai's replica of the Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, named the 'Les Paul Reborn' model, started in 1978. By 1980, the name was changed to 'Reborn Old' and later to its current name, 'Love Rock'. The name change was in response to threats from American guitar companies to go to court to protect their copyrights. Tokai also made Fender replicas, the 'Springy Sound' (ST series, Fender Stratocaster replica) and the 'Breezy Sound' (TE series, Fender Telecaster replica).Both Stevie Ray Vaughan and Chuck Hammer played a 'Tokai Springy Sound' at one time. This guitar was fitted with lipstick pickups and can be seen on the cover of his second studio album Couldn't Stand the Weather. By the late 1970s, replicas of Fender guitars, such as the '.38 Special' guitar and the 'Hard Puncher' bass (replica of the Fender Precision Bass), began to be sold in Japan and Europe.^[4]

In 1983, Tokai introduced an aluminum-body guitar called th