- Ventura Guitar Serial Numbers
- Ventura Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers For Beginners
- Ventura Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers Identification
To determine the year that your Heritage guitar was built, compare the first letter of its serial number with the index on the right. If you don’t own a Heritage guitar yet, start by exploring our Standard Collection below. This new Ventura distributor doesn't list this model. These new Venturas I've seen don't look at all like the older ones. The sticker inside the sound hole looked legit. Said 'Designed in America, Built in Japan' It had the model and serial numbers just like all the pictures I had seen of the older Venturas.
Ventura Guitar Serial Numbers
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Ventura was a brand of stringed instruments imported from Japan by C. Bruno and Company during the 1960s and 1970s. C. Bruno was bought by Kaman (Ovation) 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-14 / Martin D-14.
The Ventura line included guitars (classical, western, folk, concert, electric, electro-acoustic), banjos, mandolins, and bass guitars.
Kaman Industries (parent company of Ovation) actually acquired C Bruno & Son in 1971. Although there isn't much in the way of records from this period, it is believed that Kaman contracted with manufacturers such as 'Matsumoku' (parent company of brands such as Aria) from '71 until the brand was discontinued in 1982. There is also evidence that C. Bruno contracted with other companies before the '71 Kaman acquisition such as 'Kasuga' and others.[1]
Ventura Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers For Beginners
References[edit]
- ^https://web.archive.org/web/20150319013517/http://kaman.com/about-kaman/corporate-overview/acquisition-history/
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Ventura Acoustic Guitar Serial Numbers Identification
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