'Bout 25 years ago I bought a S. Yairi parlor guitar at a pawn shop fir like, ahhhh, 40 bucks... Sounded and played great... Then my son, who was livin' with his mother, asked me for a guitar and it was btween the Yairi and my '66 Martin D-18???

So the Yairi went off to live with my son for the next ten years where it lived in terrible conditions and when I got it back the top was bowed, the bracing unglued and virtually unplayable... Since gettin' it back it sat in my barn, not cased, but not getting rained but...

...having given my Martin to my great niece (she plays great for 16) I decided to have the ol' Yairi repaired so off to Picker's Supply in Fredricksburg, Virginia and after layin' out $300 to my luthier got it back in playable shape with a used pickup in it, to boot...

May not be an Alvarez, but hey, nice playing and nice sopunding 60's geetar, none the less...

B~