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AKIHIKO YAMASHITA
   

Profile:
AKIHIKO YAMASHITA
in 1975, when he was seventeen years old, started learning basic technique of making guitar under MAESTRO KATSUMI ARAI.
In 1980 I graduated JIYU-GAKUEN COLLEGE.

 
   
In the workshop of Santos Herrnandes, Madrid, Spain. learned for a year under Late MAESTRO FERICIANO BAYON about the spirits of making musical instruments, of varnish and of masking bass-barring of Santos' special technique; and later was trusted to make three instruments.

 

 

In 1982 started making instruments in Tokyo, Japan.
In 1990 began to build his new workshop all by himself in Hakusyu-cho, Yamanashi: Pref., and works there from 1995.
His aim is to reconstruct historical instruments and to fulfill contemporary musicians' wishes.
In January, 2007 his career of making instruments is over 25 years.

 

AKIHIKO YAMASHITA
714 DAIBOU
408-0314 JAPAN
tel/fax +81 551 35 4596

mail: mail@a-yamashita.com
für Europa : europa@a-yamashita.com


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