Aria Made In Japan Serial Numbers

I'm selling a beautiful Aria classical guitar. I've listed the features below: • Rosewood back and sides. • Tight grain Cedar top. • Multi-ply purfling around the top, sides and back with Rosewood binding.

• Mosaic, Persian, Classic wood inlaid Rosette with matching purfling and inlay on headstock and bridge tie-block. • Rosewood peghead overlay with headstock stripe. • JAPAN is stamped on the headstock. • Rosewood bridge, with purfling and binding.

Bridge is firmly attached. No lifting • Rosewood neck heel cap overlay. • Brand new Waverly gold tuning machines.

• Two piece head and neck with v-shaped volute glue joint well above nut. • Fretboard has been cleaned and seasoned. • Mother of Pearl side position markers. • Original bone saddle. • Soft shell case included.

Condition is very good, with a few minor dings here and there. Normal for a guitar of this age. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions and thank you for viewing.

Oct 19, 2011  I did buy an ES-335 Aria copy without a serial last year that reportedly was a custom-ordered japanese made guitar from 1989. After taking it apart and asking friends, we came to the conclusion it was probably Terada made. Aria guitars manufactured in the 1970s typically feature a serial number with the first two digits of the manufacture year. For example, a serial number that begins in 77 was likely manufactured in 1977. Aria guitars manufactured in the 1980s typically only used the first digit of the serial number.

Product Specs Condition: Brand Model Categories Year Made In Japan.

Six digit serial numbers date from the 70s, covering '71 through '80. Seven digit serial numbers date from the 80s, covering the period '81 through '90. The first digit gives the year. Yours is a seven digit, starting 7, making it a 1987. There weren't many models in the XRB series, but what ones were manufactured appeared between '87 and '89. To the best of my knowledge these were manufactured in Japan, although Aria did move a large portion of its production to Korean at this time, '87 onwards.

Edited February 15, 2010 by noelk27. I think I'm right in thinking if the neck plate doesn't read Made In Japan, then it's Korean. Matsumoku stopped building Aria Pro (or anything else) in 1987, and I would expect that economic conditions would have meant that only the higher-end Arias would have continued being Japanese-made. Apropos of nothing, early Matsumoku serials, eg on the 'Steel Adjustable Neck' plates, appear to be random & not dateable. Early (pre 75-ish) set & through-neck instruments appear not to have serial numbers at all.

[url='Aria Archive pages[/url] [i]imply[/i] that these are Korean. There's also a poor quality [url='Catalogue Scan[/url] here. As Jon rightly states, 1987 marks the end of the Matsumoku plant - although precisely [i]when[/i] it actually closed seems to be rather elusive (it was ownedby Singer & they were having financial difficulties.) Exactly what got made where in this transitional year is open to debate. I used to own a Korean-built Magna Series 5 string & it shared several design features with your XRB - notably the 'conventional' pickups, 'bent tin' bridge & the small dot markers.

I don't see any string trees, does your headstock have a backwards slant as well? Also, is the neck painted or clear coated? The nearest thing to the XRB in the [url='Catalogue[/url] are the RSB/Straycat models which have a very different flavour - pointy horns, soapbar pickups, die cast bridges, larger dot markers etc.

- all of which shout Matsumoku. My money's on yours being a 1987 Korean-built example.

[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='746452' date='Feb 15 2010, 08:20 PM'][url='Aria Archive pages[/url] [i]imply[/i] that these are Korean. There's also a poor quality [url='Catalogue Scan[/url] here.

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As Jon rightly states, 1987 marks the end of the Matsumoku plant - although precisely [i]when[/i] it actually closed seems to be rather elusive (it was ownedby Singer & they were having financial difficulties.) Exactly what got made where in this transitional year is open to debate. I used to own a Korean-built Magna Series 5 string & it shared several design features with your XRB - notably the 'conventional' pickups, 'bent tin' bridge & the small dot markers.

I don't see any string trees, does your headstock have a backwards slant as well? Also, is the neck painted or clear coated? The nearest thing to the XRB in the [url='Catalogue[/url] are the RSB/Straycat models which have a very different flavour - pointy horns, soapbar pickups, die cast bridges, larger dot markers etc. - all of which shout Matsumoku. My money's on yours being a 1987 Korean-built example. Pete[/quote] thanks pete some really good info there well its certainly lacking the 'made in japan' stamp on the scratchplate,no string trees, the neck does slant back, and the neck is painted in the same finish as the body.by the sounds of it Kim Jong-il may have played a part in its construction. I have something that is near identical, but rather than XRB it has (had.) SLB2A Electronics (how and why can I still remember that?!) - switchgear is the same as yours.