A Tokai Talbo A80D produced in 1983.

As you know, the body is made of aluminum, and internal cavity is filled with urethane foam.  The name Talbo derives from Tokai Aluminum Body.

I guess metal body guitar may be exist in guitar history, but Tokai Talbo might be the first mass-produced guitar applied metal body from a point of pure acoustic dynamics.

When Talbo was started to produce I played guitar in a band, but I didn’t noticed it.  It should be a sensation of guitar scene, but less people seem to have taken notice of Talbo.  Recently a guitarist in popular Japanese band played Talbo.  Such a fortune seems to stay it alive.

I imagined metallic sound as other people did.  But in actually, more normal than expected, almost no metallic touch in it, only clear sound let me imagine metal body.  I guess that sound reverberation like single coil pickup derives from metal body.

The neck-body junction is slender and looks weak. 3.87kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.27)