There were a number of changes to the Orville by Gibson and Orville model range between their beginning in 1988 and their end in 1998 that are shown in the Retail Release History section.
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The Orville by Gibson and Orville series were distributed by Yamano Gakki and were priced midway between the American-made Gibson guitars and the Korean-made Epiphone guitars. When the Orville by Gibson series was launched in 1988, Gibson was also selling American-made Gibson guitars, Japanese-made Epiphone guitars, and Korean-made Epiphone guitars in Japan. Orville is the first name of the Gibson corporation's founder Orville Gibson. Gibson and Yamano Gakki decided not to use the Epiphone brand name for the expanded model range and so the Orville name was chosen instead. In 1988 Yamano Gakki decided to expand the Epiphone Japan model range to include solid body models as well as semi acoustic models. Yamano Gakki distributed Gibson and Korean Epiphone guitars and also produced a limited range of Epiphone Japan semi acoustic guitars in cooperation with Gibson.
The Aria and Gibson Epiphone Japan partnership ended by 1986 and in 1987 Yamano Gakki obtained the Gibson and Epiphone dealership in Japan. Gibson established Epiphone Japan in the early 1970s with the production and distribution being managed by Aria in cooperation with Gibson. Yamano Gakki (Gakki stands for musical instrument company) are one of Japan's largest musical instrument distributors/retailers and Kanda Shokai are one of Japan's largest musical instrument distributors. Fender and Gibson opened Japanese branch divisions to make guitars in Japan using the Fender/Squier or Gibson/Epiphone brand names for the Japanese market.įender established Fender Japan in 1982 and contracted Yamano Gakki (Japanese) ? and Kanda Shokai (Japanese) ? to oversee the production and distribution of Fender Japan guitars in cooperation with Fender. Some brands were sold only on the Japanese market, but other brands, such as Ibanez were exported from Japan.
Orville by Gibson guitar headstockOrville by Gibson (Japanese) ?by? (also known simply as Orville (Japanese) ?) was a brand of guitars that was managed by the Gibson Guitar Corporation for the Japanese market during the late 1980s and most of the 1990s.ĭuring the 1970s and the 1980s, certain Japanese Guitar companies using brand names such as Ibanez, Tokai, Burny, and Greco were making high quality copies of Fender and Gibson guitars. Their contract, for those Epiphone versions, ran out in 2006. My MIJ Epiphone '61 SG, with "Gibson" headstock, is justĪ later offshoot (Epiphone Japan) version. Them do so, under their brand names, for the Japanese, and Far East markets. They were being made, anyway.under various brand names, by Fuji-gen, and the Terada Factories.along with Fender copies. But, they were made, for the Japanese market, per Gibson authorization, and specs.
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