iconic Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 just chanced across this site and the guy has some old Yamaha bass brochures....never seen these PB/JB basses before, assuming they are Japanese market only? Do they ever show up in the UK? [url="http://brochures.yokochou.com/guitar-and-amp/yamaha/1985/en_p2021.html"]http://brochures.yokochou.com/guitar-and-a...5/en_p2021.html[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Yam copies (they did Strats & Les Pauls too) do turn up in the UK but they're very uncommon, seems they weren't imported in great numbers, if they ever were officially. That particular catalogue is from 1985 - by that point the Japanese copy market was pretty much dead in the UK for a couple of reasons. The whole mid-70s "lawsuit" thing really made the Japanese manufacturers push their original designs for export, hence we see the likes of Aria SBs, Ibanez Musicians/Blazers & Yam BBs etc appearing. At the same time production costs in Japan were rising rapidly & encouraging the move away from the budget end which MIJ copies traditionally occupied, and the low-end market was rapidly filled by the still dirt-cheap Korean copies from Cort, Samick, Young-Chang & god knows how many others. Many of the big Japanese factories carried on producing copies for the home market (many of them still do) and some manage to make their way over here. Yamahas do seem quite few & far-between, I'd say if you wanted one you'd probably be better off importing one. Jon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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