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VENTURA GUITAR SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP

 1. Ventura Bruno Guitar Value
 2. Ventura Guitar Serial Number Lookup Serial
 3. 1970's Ventura Acoustic Guitars

GENERAL VINTAGE GUITAR RESOURCES:

 1. US11 means 2011. The remaining digits are important for product
    identification, but the first few characters are all you need to determine
    the instruments age. Serial number coding for Mexican-made instruments is
    largely the same, except they will start with an M. MN2 for 1992 in Mexico.
 2. Ventura was a brand of stringed instruments imported from Japan by C. Bruno
    and Company during the 1960s and 1970s. Bruno was bought by Kaman in the
    early 1980s, after which the brand disappeared. Some of the Ventura guitars
    were knock-offs of the Martin line, such as the Ventura V-35 appearing
    similar to the Martin D-35, and the Ventura V.
 3. Fernandes created faithful recreations of Fender instruments; and Takamine
    and Suzuki both made acoustic guitars nearly identical to certain Martin
    models. Interestingly, most Japanese copies of the time didn’t have serial
    numbers — a great way to tell if an instrument is truly a “lawsuit” guitar,
    even today.

Vintage Guitar Magazine - this is Vintage Guitar 101 and all neophytes are
advised to start here. Of course, my favorite part is Michael Wright's
'Different Strummer' column, which covers the history of all those wild, wacky
off-brand instruments in elaborate detail. VG has also published several of my
own articles over the years, some of which can be found on this site.

The Blue Book - if you're serious about buying and selling used guitars, the
Blue Book provides the most detailed pricing, dating and identification info.
Much of it is available online for free.

As for your guitar, who knows, but if it is a Yairi, Sadao usually used the
Japanese Emperor Dating system. Add 28 years to the first 2 numbers of your
guitar serial number. Example: 50234 would date the guitar to 1978. I hope that
helps.

GuitarHQ - a nice all-around mainstream vintage guitar site. All the standard
Gibson and Fender type stuff, plus some other interesting odds and ends.

ProjectGuitar.com- where the Internet goes to work on guitars! All about guitar
maintenance and repair.

MIMF - the Musical Instrument Makers Forum is a goldmine of information about
materials, construction and repair techniques, including a gallery of unique
custom built guitars that range from inept to incredible. If you need
professional advice about repairing your old guitar, this is the place to ask.

Stewart-McDonald - a good source for replacement guitar parts and repair tools
to keep your junker running. Also check out WD and Allparts. I'm not sponsored
by or affiliated with these or any other manufacturer or retailer, but I'm often
asked to recommend good parts sources.Well, here you go.

Ampage - a nice info source for amp schematics and other guitar electronics.

GuitarElectronics.com - lots of wiring diagrams.

Dr. Duck's Dating Service - an excellent resource, lots of serial numbers for
many brands of guitars.

OTHER 'JUNK GUITAR' SITES:

Cheesy Guitars - a true kindred spirit, Meatex Z has created a wonderful site
dedicated to all those unplayable Russian and Eastern European guitars. He was
also nice enough to give me credit for naming his site and helping him out with
information initially. We were originally going to do this project together, but
decided that two sites are better than one. Go visit Meatex and tell him Big
Beat says 'hi'.

SovietGuitars.com - this cool Russian language page for fans of Soviet era
instruments is rapidly becoming an important resource.

Vintaxe.com - an excellent site about some of the lesser known vintage guitars
produced in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. Lots of pictures and vintage catalog
scans, including some of mine that I have shared with them.

My Rare Guitars - a nice collection of cheesy offbeat axes by a very hip
collector and dealer. Vintage Normas, Ekos and Dominos galore, plus some great
modern reissues.

Fetish Guitars - a fabulous site about Eko, Wandre, Galanti and other Italian
guitars of the 60's. Both visually stunning and very informative, it is an
absolute marvel.

Lordbizarre's Electric Guitar & Amp Museum - The name says it all. This
collector from Belgium has put some seriously weird axes on display for your
viewing pleasure.

Cheap Trashy Weird Old Guitars - cool name, and certainly the right spirit! A
small but impressive collection of Egmonds, Wilsons, Musimas and even something
called a Horugel.

21 Frets - I just love it when somebody takes totally trashed Hagstroms and
Melody Makers and restores them from trash to flash. This site chronicles some
really cool restoration projects.

Gudok - a Russian site that showcases 'the weapons of the proletariat', old
Soviet guitars such as the Tonika, the Formanta and the Solo-II.

Hendrix Room - a Japanese site with a neat collection of totally off-the-wall
60's guitars with names like Youngtone and Melodier.

Animal Charme - dedicated to all those pointy headstock axes of the 80's,
this is the home of the shred and heavy metal guitar!

Pointy Guitars - more 80's pointy guitar madness!

Guitare Collection - A wacky French site that showcases some totally bizarre
Euro junk guitars, even including a couple from Russia.

Rockin' Hollowbody Guitars - a great forum for people of the thinline and
archtop persuasion. If it's got F-holes, you'll find all about it right here.

Vintage Guitars - this Swedish dealer has a photo gallery with lots of Goyas,
Hagstroms, Levins and other oddball Scandinavian beauties.

Vermona - here's a German page about those amps and synths, so familiar to
professional Russian musicians of the 70's and 80's. Never mind Fender, Vox and
Marshall, everyone behind the Iron curtain knew that the best amps were made by
Vermona. This factory also produced the famous Weltmeister accordions and the
Ionika electric organ. To many older Russians, 'Ionika' is still synonymous with
'keyboard'. See the old Vermona amps HERE and the original Ionika HERE.

VINTAGE GUITAR INFO BY BRAND:

Ampeg - Vintage Ampeg Scroll Basses
Aria - Guitar Gallery
Burns - Burns Guitar Museum
Carvin - Carvin Museum
Danelectro - Danoguitars
Egmond - Egmond Guitars
Eko - Fetish Guitars, My Rare Guitars
Framus - Vintage Framus
Futurama - Futurama Story
Grazioso - Palka.com
Galanti - Fetish Guitars
Goya - Goya Guitars
Hagstrom - Hagstrom USA, Hagstrom Canada, Hagstrom UK
Official Hagstrom Site
Harmony - Broadway Music Co., Unofficial Harmony Page, Harmony Thumbs, Hillman
Guitars
Heartfield - Heartfield Central
Hofner - Guitar HQ, Hofner Club Guitars, Vintage Hofner, Hofner Hounds
Hopf - Hopf Guitars
Hoyer - Hoyer Guitars
Ibanez - Ibanez Vintage Page, Vintage Ibanez Museum, Ibanez Vintage,
Ibanez Collector's World
Jolana - Jolana Info, My Jolana
Kramer - Kramer Krazy, Kramermaniaxe, Vintage Kramer
Music Man - Unofficial Music Man Guitar Page
Ovation - Ovation Fan Club, Ovation Tribute Page
Shergold - Shergold Guitars
Silvertone - Vintage Silvertone
Starfield - Unofficial Starfield Guitar Site
Teisco - Teisco Twangers
Tel-Ray - Unofficial Tel-Ray Page
Tokai - Tokai Registry
Univox - Univox Page
Vantage - Guitar Gallery
Ventura - Unofficial Ventura Guitar Page
Vermona - Vermona
Vox - Vox Showroom
Watkins - Watkins Guitars
Westbury - Westbury Guitars
Westone - Westone Guitars

MISCELLANEOUS OTHER LINKS:

Guitars.RU - Russia's top guitar community. The place to go for information
about Tonikas, Aelitas and other Eastern Bloc guitars. If you speak Russian, you
can also hang out on their popular forum and socialize with other Russian
guitarists. Even if you don't, many of the regulars do speak English.

Russian Rock Club of America - not really vintage guitar oriented, but these
folks are my friends and associates. We keep the flame of the classic Russian
rock tradition alive in our new homeland, promote independent Russian rock bands
in America, stage concerts, music festivals and other cultural events. If you're
a Russian rock musician or fan living in America, you're not alone!


© 2003 - 2008 JunkGuitars.com. All rights reserved.

: I bought this Ventura in 1980 at H & H music in Houston and I was just
wondering what it is worth. It has a classical body style, not the dreadnought.
The action is low and has an adjustable truss rod. The serial number is 60505
and the model # is V-200B. Does anyone out there have an accurate answer? Thank
you for your time and effort in responding to this e-mail inquiry.

Have a great day.I ALSO HAVE A MATCHING PAIR OF V-11 BRUNO & V-15 12 STRING FROM
MEMORIAL MUSIC JUST PRIOR TO H & H. THEY TOURED WITH BUFFETT IN 74-78 THROUGH
CARIB/PROVO SOUTH & NORTH FLORIDA. NO ONE WILL VALUE THEM @ MORE THAN PURCHASE
PRICE. : I bought this Ventura in 1980 at H & H music in Houston and I was just
wondering what it is worth.


VENTURA BRUNO GUITAR VALUE

It has a classical body style, not the dreadnought. The action is low and has an
adjustable truss rod. The serial number is 60505 and the model # is V-200B. Does
anyone out there have an accurate answer? Thank you for your time and effort in
responding to this e-mail inquiry.

Have a great day.I have a Ventura Bruno V-12 I paid $110 for in 1972 at
Hauschild's music in Victoria, TX. Don't know if they are still around as the
owner was up in years then. I have heard they were made in Japan but I dont know
this for sure.

Guitar ID and AppraisalThere are many reasons for determining the precise age of
your used guitar. The most important one is probably pricing the instrument
appropriately when you’re looking to sell it. Prices for certain vintage models
vary by thousands of dollars depending on whether it’s a 1963, for example, or a
1964.

You’ll also need to know exactly what your guitar is worth for insurance
purposes.One of the most valuable and often overlooked resources to help you
identify and appraise guitars is your local used instrument dealer. It’s so
important to establish a working relationship with these folks. While it may be
tempting to call every store in the area in order to save a few dollars when
you’re shopping for something, developing a loyalty to one or two shops pays off
when you need service that goes beyond a simple purchase.

While most shops charge a fee for an official appraisal, it may take an
experienced retailer only a second to realize that your old Epiphone is actually
a Nova 390, produced from 1976 to 1980 in the company’s short-lived Japanese
factory. The shop employee may be glad to look up the approximate value of your
ax in a book and give you an opinion about what it’s worth. But if you randomly
drop by a store that you’ve never been to before and ask for this kind of help,
they might not take the time to look carefully at what you’ve got.LEARNING THE
HISTORYIf you want to educate yourself to identify guitars, the first step is to
become familiar with the histories of some of the larger companies.

In recent years, more and more books providing information on the major guitar
manufacturers have become available, and they’re a great place to start. There
are some basic questions to ask.

When did the company start building guitars? Where were the guitars
manufactured? Did the company move in the course of its existence, and did it
move its production overseas? Did the model in question change drastically
during the years of production?

For example, Gibson’s J-200 started out with rosewood back and sides and fairly
standard X-bracing in the late 1930s. It was changed to maple back and sides
(except for a few rosewood examples) and a double-X bracing pattern in the ’50s.
Yet another double-X bracing pattern was used during the ’70s, and then a more
Martin-like scalloped X-bracing was adopted when the model was reintroduced in
the late ’80s. These are all differences that would be difficult for the
uneducated eye to notice, yet they drastically affect the guitar’s sound and
value.At the very least, these books will identify the time period during which
the guitar in question was produced, basic information that will, for example,
keep you from paying a premium for a '1960s Martin HD-28' (you’ll know that this
model wasn’t introduced until 1976). Sometimes you can narrow down even further
the time period in which your guitar was built because of a certain
distinguishing feature. For example, a volute or scroll at the back of a Gibson
headstock usually indicates that the instrument was built between 1974 and 1981
(although some appeared as early as 1969).Another thing that the trained eye
will immediately be able to pick up on is whether an instrument was built in the
U.S.

Or imported from one of the many low-end Asian manufacturers. When I worked in
retail, a customer once walked in with a Ventura archtop for sale.

Convinced that he had a guitar that was built in the U.S. In the ’50s, he
stormed out after I told him what I’d be able to offer him for it. Even if I
hadn’t known that Venturas were made in Japan during the ’70s (which was
confirmed by a quick look in the Vintage Guitar Price Guide), I knew as soon as
he opened the case. It was mostly the guitar’s thick finish that gave it away,
complete with lacquered neck-to-body joints and drips through the f-holes. The
wimpy hardware was another dead giveaway that this guitar was neither
domestically made, as he thought, nor a high-quality import. The best place to
gain this kind of familiarity is at your local music store’s used-and-cheap
section; the more guitars you inspect, the more experienced you’ll be.One of the
biggest roadblocks in identifying a guitar can often be the serial number.

These numbers are frequently inconsistent or missing from reference books. In
many cases, a serial number by itself is about as useful as a phone number with
a missing digit. Few companies have consistently used the same system of
numbering during their entire existence (Martin is among those that have). For
example, Gibson began using an eight-digit number in 1977.


VENTURA GUITAR SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP SERIAL

The first and fifth digits indicated the year of production (8XXX2XXX meant it
was built in 1982). If you tried to apply this formula to a serial number on an
older Gibson, or even a newer vintage reissue (which sometimes use 'vintage'
serial numbers) you’d be making a big mistake.REFERENCE BOOKSSo, how does one go
about accurately identifying a used instrument? Probably the publication most
often referred to is Gruhn’s Guide to Vintage Guitars. Written by George Gruhn
(of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville) and Walter Carter, the guide is a must-have for
identifying older American-made guitars. Organized into brands, general
information, serial numbers, specific features, and model designations, the book
identifies most major-brand guitars of the past and offers meticulous
descriptions and a wealth of helpful photos. It offers little or no information
on smaller makers, budget instrument makers, and recent entries into the guitar
market.Although designed to give approximate values for vintage instruments, the
Vintage Guitar Price Guide is also quite useful in identifying instruments.
While it doesn’t describe each model’s features in detail, it does provide a
company history for most of the makers included.

The book’s many photos can be very helpful, and the general listings, which
include many off-brands, are among the most complete available. As with all
price guides, the dollar amounts shown are to be taken with a grain of salt, but
having even a vague idea of an instrument’s value will make you a more savvy
buyer or seller.Another excellent resource is the Blue Book of Guitars. This
hefty book probably represents the most complete compilation of information on
guitars that have not yet reached vintage status.


VENTURA GUITAR SERIAL NUMBER LOOKUP

It’s one of the few books that lists instruments made by companies such as Kay
and J.B. Player and by individual luthiers such as Dave Maize and Steve Klein.
Besides retail price information, the book includes brief descriptions of most
companies and models listed, as well as a unique section on grading the
condition of an instrument. In a color section, a variety of guitars are
pictured front and back, showing a range of possible conditions-from 20 percent
(poor) to 100 percent (new).You can also join guitar-related newsgroups on the
Internet, but beware of advice from uneducated participants posing as guitar
experts. Of particular interest to acoustic guitarists are
rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz, and
rec.music.classical.guitar.


1970'S VENTURA ACOUSTIC GUITARS


FIND GUITAR BY SERIAL NUMBER

You might also check out rec.music.makers.guitar and alt.guitar.These resources
and the others in the Acoustic Guitar Owner's Manual should help you on your way
to becoming a guitar expert. All you need is hours and hours of paging through
every available book on the subject, countless weekends spent at guitar shops
and vintage instrument shows, a careful examination of all of your picking
buddies’ axes, and (let’s face it) the purchase of a lemon or two.Excerpted from
Acoustic Guitar magazine, October 1998, No. 70.Toll Free 877-712-4747.






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