The guitar is a six-stringed plucked instrument, also known as a six-stringed instrument. The guitar has a wide range, rich chords, spontaneous modulation, beautiful timbre, and is one of the most popular musical instruments today.
When I was a child, a neighbor was a guitarist in the Shantou Orchestra, and whenever I watched him play, my fingers kept plucking on the strings, and I always longed for a guitar of my own. It wasn't until the summer vacation of the fourth grade that my grandfather bought a plum blossom brand guitar for me at the store of the musical instrument factory on Huawu Road, and went to the Children's Palace to help me sign up and send me to school for guitar. It's a pity that I only lasted for a summer vacation, and I couldn't even play a complete tune, and only the guitar knows this little story so far.
Shantou Musical Instrument Factory in 1958 in Shantou is the first trial production of guitars, is based on the same domestic product imitation, the beginning of the monthly output of 20-30, and then month by month increased to nearly 100, the products are all purchased by the commercial sector. In 1960, the production ceased due to the cessation of acquisitions by the commercial sector and the lack of self-sales of the factory.
In the early 70s, Shantou Musical Instrument Factory decided to resume guitar production due to the sluggish production and sales of national musical instruments, and determined that "Meihua Brand" was the product trademark. There are two types of guitars: Spanish and Hawaiian, and the classical guitars and folk guitars produced by Shantou Musical Instrument Factory are all Spanish. In 1974, 4 were exported to foreign businessmen as samples, and the following year, with the cooperation of the foreign trade department, after publicity and recommendation, after 40 export test sales that year, merchants from Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and other places came to order. Since then, the "Plum Blossom" guitar has entered the international market. Between 1976 and 1980, 65,000 guitars were exported.
Plum brand guitar.
Shantou Musical Instrument Factory Plum Blossom Guitar Standard, Chen Jiashun Collection.In 1979, due to changes in the domestic and foreign markets, the foreign trade and commercial departments suspended acquisitions, resulting in a serious backlog of guitars. In order to change the predicament, in 1980, Shantou Musical Instrument Factory invited well-known people from Texas to visit Shantou Musical Instrument Factory in Shantou. When the American musicians came to Shanshan, they brought a few pieces of mid-to-low-grade guitars and some testing instruments made in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and asked them to make two sets of samples according to Korean products within 7 days, so as to see the samples and order. Through the joint efforts of the musical instrument factory, the prototype guitar produced met the requirements of foreign businessmen, and a 7-year underwriting contract was signed. According to the contract, from 1981, 50,000 handfuls were paid in the first year, and 15 were added year after that. In 1981 4820,000 handfuls, which basically meets the needs of foreign businessmen in terms of quantity. Beginning in 1982, due to the fact that some foreign businessmen raised some unspecified quality problems in the contract, some light industry export companies were not well considered, and the country's rigid regulations on foreign exchange rates limited the flexibility of exports, the seven-year contract was cancelled after only a little more than one year, so that the guitar production of the musical instrument factory was facing a shutdown again.
Shantou Musical Instrument Factory Meihua brand guitar, Chen Jiashun collection.
After 1983, Shantou Musical Instrument Factory turned its products to domestic sales, opened up the purchase and sales channels in Guangzhou, and distributed the guitars produced by Guangzhou Stationery Purchasing Station and Guangdong Light Industry Products Import and Export Company, so that the guitars produced were gradually sold to all parts of the country. By 1985, guitar production reached an all-time high, with an annual output of 10380,000 guitars, and gradually expand the production of mid-range guitars. At this time, the plum blossom brand guitar, with exquisite materials, exquisite craftsmanship, beautiful shape, tone Athens, accurate rhythm, comfortable performance characteristics, widely loved by the best people, in 1984, "plum blossom" brand guitar won the Guangdong Province Quality Product Award, the second year and won the Ministry of Light Industry quality product title.
Plum Blossom brand guitar maintenance manual, Chen Jiashun collectionTime passed, and the plum blossom brand guitar could no longer play beautiful tunes, only quietly telling the past of Shantou's famous products.
Author: Chen Jiashun.