The rest of the digits are factory specified i.e. Reading left to right, the first two digits represent the year and the second pair of digits represents the month. Since 1996, each Landola guitar has featured a serial number that pinpoints the year and the month when the guitar was manufactured. Production strategy was changed from quantity to quality. For example guitar number 9 - 500606 was made in 1989.įor example guitar number 2 - 523527 has been made in Īudiosal Oy Ab bought the company. In 1989 production exceeded half a million. For example serial 5 - 300000 was given to a government minister in the opening party of the new factory in 1975.Īnnual output 20 000 guitars, 40 % exportedĪrctic birch were re-entered in to production Also check for white plastics on the back instead of black ones used in japanese models.Routing and wiring is different also.hardware is not Gotoh and pickups are not japanes made. The decade has to be judged by the rest of the serial. There is only one Burny model made in Japan in a well known factory and does not have that serial number. Since the early 1970s the first digit of the serial number has denoted the year of manufacture. The annual output 40 000 instruments, 75 % exported In 1973 Landola Ltd was sold to Musiikki-Fazer, the largest firm in the music business in Finland. He annual output 40 000 instruments, 85 % exported The new company was called Oy Landola Ab (Landola Ltd)įirst time participating in the Frankfurt Music Fair. The company concentrated only on the guitar production The company invested in export and marketed guitars abroad.Įstimated, 10 000 Landola guitars in October 1952 The first factory made guitar was launched on the market in. In September 1945 the company became Ab Munkers Oy (Munkers Ltd). Company was called Veljekset Mattson Oy (in english The Mattson Brothers Ltd).
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