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Originally Posted by fnesnor
Never heard of 'em.
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That's not surprising - they never got marketed as Kasugas over here in North America, so far as I know. If they did it was only briefly.
Where you will have seen Kasuga instruments, for certain, is if you owned or played any Made-In-Japan Kentucky mandolins, particularly the less expensive ones. All of those less expensive models, and I believe their Gold Star banjos from that era, were made by Kasuga.
I saw a lot of Kasuga instruments when I played some bluegrass festivals and clubs in Japan in 1985. The really serious Japanese players were playing Martin guitars and Gibson mandolins and banjos, but the average band members and parking lot pickers had Kasugas.
Wade Hampton Miller