Old Greco catalogs

[hans-j?rgen]

A Japanese collector has thumbnails of many old catalogs:

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~shake/greco/catalogue/catalogue.html

Here's his main page translated by Google:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sf.airnet.ne.jp%2F%7Eshake%2F&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

 

[luis]

Very interesting Hans.

Where have these prices gone? :evil:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sf.airnet.ne.jp%2F%7Eshake%2F&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

 

[hans-j?rgen]

I guess you rather meant this link?

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sf.airnet.ne.jp%2F%7Eshake%2Fgreco%2Fkakaku%2Fkakaku.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

Google doesn't change the URL in the upper browser address box when translating a subpage of the original site, so you have to feed the link of the subpage to Google's translation service again if you want to find out the complete URL.

Keep in mind that the price page on that Greco site is from 2001, so it's not new information.

 

[Spleen]

Thanks hans, good stuff there.

Here is the entire 1982 Mint Collection Greco catalog, translated by google

http://translate.google.com/transla...&prev=/search?q=eg59-100+greco&hl=en&lr=&sa=G

 

[hans-j?rgen]

Wow! I wish we had something similar for the old Tokai catalogs...

 

[20 century boy]

thanx Hans,those links have already been given on the forum but it was a long time ago, they might have been erased
Also here are the catalogs of the 70 et 80'
vol.13
vol.12
vol.11
vol.10
vol.09
vol.08
vol.07
vol.06
vol.05
vol.04
vol.03
vol.02
greco vol.1
more
Greco & Canda
more

 

[hans-j?rgen]

Great...

 

[theskywolf]

And some more Greco and Burny catalogues: http://www14.plala.or.jp/Acrosstheborder/catalog.html#GRECO

 

[20 century boy]

Haaa, I was searching for this for a while in the jungle of my bookmarks!

exerpt from the very informativ Greco journal
the story of the Greco logos:

around 70

between 69 and 72: the famous "Gneco" logo

between 71 and 74, "Gneco" version II that we can find on the first EG models.

Modified "r" version. between 73 and 1975.

from 74: the most famous one , most Gibson replicas has this logo on the head.

between 82 and 90 logo, same as previous but with a cut off "O", logo of the mint collection, mostly.

From 76: Logo of the GO and MR series, also used on some 79 Gibson copies.

 

[20 century boy]

from the same site. ( I have nothing to do tonight )

The main japanese guitar brands (according to this site but there's a few mystakes and some are forgotten.

"Greco" production: Fuji gen gakki sale: Kanda Shokai trading company
"Ibanez" production: Fujigen gakki sale: Corporation Kanda trading company
"Ibanez" production: Fuji gen gakki sale: Hoshino musical instrument sale corporation
"Westminster" production: MATUMOKU sale: Kanda Shokai trading company
"Epiphone" 1*production: MATSUMOKU sale:Kanda Shokai trading company
"Epiphone" 2* production: MATSUMOKU sale: Arai trade corporation
"Epiphone" *2 production: MATSUMOKU sale: Corporation Japanese Gibson
"Aria ProII " Production: MATSUMOKU sale: Arai trade corporation
"YAMAHA" Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. corporation
"KAWAI" Kawai musical instrument factory
"Tokai" Tokai musical instrument production corporation
"Fresher" sale: republican trading company
"Guyatone" production: GUYA Corporation sale: Tokyo sound corporation
"Elk" elk musical instrument corporation
"Fernandes" Fernandes corporation
"Burny" Fernandes corporation
"Heerby" KASUGA musical instrument production corporation
"Ganson" KASUGA musical instrument production corporation
"H.S.Anderson " sale: MORIDAIRA musical instrument Corporation
"Joodee" production: DYNA musical instrument sale: DAION Corporation
"Founder" productionYNA musical instrument saleAION Corporation
"Brian" HEADWAY corporation ( in fact, Korean production of the Deviser company)
"BossAxe" production: Musical instrument atelier PIKO sale: ?
"Vesta"

 

[20 century boy]

Might just put my favourite Greco sites as well. It will resume some dispatched infos:

Studio greco
grecomania
sf.airnet I think the guy is ultrashake who sell some stuff on yahoo. Not sure.
Greco sunnyday
greco Journal

I wonder if I didn't do that already. **** memory...

Me too.
Hope this helps you guys.

 

[theskywolf]

Thanx mate for these infos!

 

[hans-j?rgen]

Thanks for the additional links, I'll send them to the Japanese ODP editor for his category of electric guitars if he hasn't listed them yet and if they are in Japanese.

 

[20 century boy]

It's funny how there is so many japanese sites about Greco but nothing about Tokai, Burny or Orville.

 

[Jeff Hitman]

Thanks hans, good stuff there.

Here is the entire 1982 Mint Collection Greco catalog, translated by google

http://translate.google.com/transla...&prev=/search?q=eg59-100+greco&hl=en&lr=&sa=G

****! That's the page I need to see but it's File 404 not found. Anybody have a copy of this they can post or email?????