Concorde....as brand name?

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Author Message   Camvanas Username: Camvanas Registered: 11-2007 Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 8:37 am:    Hi all. First post. Wanted to ask some of the experts here if they have ever heard of Ibanez marketing acoustic guitars under the name "Concorde". I understand that they had a Concord line of acoustics. I also understand that Ibanez was in the habit of putting other names on some of their instruments(I own a late 70's Cimar Precision bass that is great). I live in Switzerland and just bought an acoustic. It is a great guitar, well built, great sounding. Although it won't change the way I feel about my new guitar, for my own peace of mind (huh?) I was wondering if this may have come out of their factory in Japan in the 70's sometime. My search for Concorde acoustics on the web has proved fruitless. Here are some photos. Thanks in advance. Cam   Chazmo Username: Chazmo Registered: 3-2007 Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 11:09 am:    There's another Concorde on Craig's List in Bellingham, MA (doesn't look like yours though) http://bellingham.craigslist.org/msg/472244450.htm l. I didn't find any useful genealogy on the web either. I am not aware of this brand name for Hoshino's (Ibanez's) products. Looks like a nice axe anyway. Do you haave any reason to suspect it's made in Japan?   Camvanas Username: Camvanas Registered: 11-2007 Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 11:47 am:    Wow, that is the only one besides mine I've seen. I thought I had an orphan! Funnily enough, I was born and lived until 2 years ago just 30 minutes north of Bellingham in Vancouver, Canada. No real reason why I thought it may have been made in Japan. I thought maybe Ibanez had used Concorde as another 'nomme de guerre'. There also seemed to be a lot of similarities with the Ibanez Concords I saw pictured on various websites, although I haven't seen one single model that looks the same as mine. The binding and general fit and finish of this guitar is so good it just didn't seem like a one-off (or two-off, now I know it has a brother in the U.S.). Mysterious! Regardless, it is a great guitar. Thanks for the reply Chazmo! Cam.   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 10:31 pm:    Fender also had a "Concord Series", but that was before the plane crashed. Ginger   Camvanas Username: Camvanas Registered: 11-2007 Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 4:19 am:    Yeah, I saw some pictures of the Fender Concords. They all seem to have the Strat-type headstock. Strange looking acoustic, great looking plane. Cam.   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 8:56 pm:    I tried acoustic Fender guitars of that generation, but they could never convince me. My first flattop steelstring was a Sigma SDR-41 (Korean Martin D-41 of laminated rosewood), which I had upgraded with a real bone bridge saddle and a bone nut for €120.- (all hand-made from scratch, no standard stuff). It has aged so beautifully... the top is real nice amber now. I can't sell that one especially after this perfect setup, although I have guitars that are much higher in value... This one has the Martin feel and perfect looks (it's still mint). BTW, I find this Concorde's back very interesting.... it follows the principle of the D-35, but with a different light coloured wood in the middle (maple?). I've always been more of a Martin-man than a Gibson-man when it's about flattops, but the real ones (I don't mean the modern cheap models) were always too expensive, the first one I could afford was the Sigma. Then the MIJ Bozo B-100 (by Yairi), and after quite a while I bought the Gallagher Doc Watson. Now, that's a real canon. I always bought dreadnoughts, never jumbos (yet), although I am appreciating them more now because of their full sound, but they always looked like ladies with too fat behinds to me, especially when I was a young runner and weighed about 60 kg myself. After I grew quite fat myself I needed more guitar to hide my belly. So I guess I relate my standards of beauty to my own body size: it has to fit. That's probably why Buddy Holly played a strat and not a Super 400. It would have looked ridiculous. Ginger

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