Im not sure, but this past year i picked up an Aria SG that im really impressed with. These guitars have held up well over the years, and the original models still sound. It has an iconic that screams 1960s the moment you hear it-vintage at its best. The Aria 1532T is the first electric guitar that Aria produced and exported to America in the late 60s, and if you can find an original, it is a gem to own.
The frets were still actually close to jumbo height on it - even that old! i like it every bit as much as some of the "real" LPs ive owned in the past.Anyway, i know i didnt help you much - but i wanted to point out that some of those japanese guitars are really something worthwhile. It plays so well, looks great and sounds great. In very good playing condition.Also, i got an electra omega LP copy thats also a japanese guitar from the late 70s/early 80s and man its really cool. Anyway, the guitar sounds great and it really looks like japanese. The frets are still high enough for fast metal chugging/chording - but not so great for lead.Aria & Aria Pro II United States Dealers Aria has been in the business of making quality guitars at an affordable price since 1956 The Aria Pro II signature heel-less neck joints, thin sleek bodies, recessed knobs, coil tap switches, Dual Sound’ series / parallel switches are excellent features not found on similarly priced guitars.Great stratocaster, I suppose it was made in Korea, though some say Mad Axe guitars are from Japan.
Aria is one of the larger companies that survived and made the move to Korea. Aria and approximately 20 other guitar makers who had their guitars mass-produced in the Matsumoku factory were forced to either move manufacturing to Korea or they simply went out of business. They dropped their guitar their manufacturing division in late 1987, after they were bought out by American sewing-machine giant Singer. Matsumoku was originally a sewing machine manufacturing facility.
If you check Ebay a lot, you'll see that the ZZ's sell for a lot less than all the Japanese-made Aria's. Supposedly, the ZZ's were the worst of the bunch (in quality control) those first couple of years. I've been told that those were a couple of bad years for Aria because there were quality control issues when they first made the move over to Korean shores. And it was supposedly an earthquake, not a fire, that destroyed Matsumoku.Anyway, that ZZ could be one of the Korean Aria's, circa 1988/1989. I see people all the time on Ebay who say that Matsumoku stopped making guitars because the factory was "destroyed by a great fire in 1987." That is NOT why they stopped making guitars! It was a corporate decision by a business giant (Singer & Co.) a year and a half before the factory was destroyed.
It was either a great player, or it kind of sucked.Check the reviews, and you'll see what I mean.
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