Teisco also produced a six-string bass called TB-64 (or ET-320) in 1964, similar to the Fender Bass VI which was itself an uncommon instrument. TG-64 (guitar version of TB-64 played by Conor Oberst) This is one of the reasons these guitars became popular again during the 90s among many noise artists as a cheaper alternative for the Fender Jaguar or Jazzmaster, which were beginning to attract collector interest. When the strings are attacked behind the bridge, a 3rd bridge sound is created.
Many Teisco guitars had a primitive tailed bridge in their extended tail bridges with limited timbre when used in an extended technique.
The light weight of this guitar is a bonus to the sonic attributes. He talked the manager into a trade, took the guitar home, rebuilt it and has played it on stage ever since. He has played Teisco guitars since childhood and just before joining Peter Noone in 2001 found this one from the Teisco 1964 line screwed to the wall at a Guitar Center as junk art. Singer, songwriter Vance Brescia, guitarist and music director for Herman’s Hermits Starring Peter Noone and frequent guest musician with The Monkees, Micky Dolenz and other artists plays a Teisco Del Rey EP-8 model. (河合楽器製作所 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho), who discontinued the Teisco brand name for guitars in 1969 (1977 in Japan), but continued to use it for electronic keyboards until the 1980s. In 1967, the company was acquired by Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. In 1956, the company name was changed to Nippon Onpa Kogyo Co., and changed to Teisco Co. The company was originally called Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo (roughly: Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories). The company was founded in 1946 by renowned Hawaiian and Spanish guitarist Atsuwo Kaneko and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. However, the exact name of company establishing and producing the Teisco brand was not that name, and rather, they had frequently renamed their company. The brand name "Teisco" was established in 1948, and sometimes incorrectly explained as an acronym of Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company. Teisco Del Rey brand logo, re-badged in the US after 1964.
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