These early Tokais are a LOT of bass for the money, and stand up next to most passive Ps I've tried. If you can live with this it's fine, but I'm a bit mental about anything that can possibly go wrong on a gig, and would swap them for safety's sake once they start slipping. The tuners slip a bit sometimes, especially the A string. Very punchy, they live up to their name, which cracks me up every time I look at the headstock. They have a very similar tone but seem a bit more compressed for want of a better description.

There are a number of dings on the top of the headstock and some dings/discoloration on the neck surface. The headstock decal has been scratched up in the 'Tokai' brand name area. I like the PUPs on these, maybe a little less highs than the vintage P pickups, hard to say. There are a number of dings thru the finish, mostly on the upper bout and butt end of the body. I gave it to our drummer as a birthday present, the maple neck on that one was beautiful, too I had a very cool blue/grey one that came in a brown faux leather hard case with electric pink plush interior, the only H/C I've seen from this era. One is yellowed white, beautiful rosewood, f/b, with a replacement tort 'guard (I have the original black one) the other CAR, maple neck with a white P/G, nice finish under stage lights. I don't normally post pictures of my basses, sorry. I guess the '70's ones would have the '82 decal if they exist. The guitars dated from the late '70's, some say the HPs and Jazzy Sounds as well, others say it was from '82 onwards. I was lucky enough to own both a great Hard Puncher and fretless Tokai Jazz sound jazz bass. registry website, but Id guess yours is maybe an 83/84 one. Products, Electric and acoustic guitars, basses, autoharps. Tokai Piano Serial Numbers Iphone Sim Card Unlock Code Enolsoft Pdf Compressor 3 3 07 Vidyo Mac Black Max Mower 961440003 Parts Manual. There seems to be some debate about what the first years of production for these basses was. Tokai Gakki Company, Ltd often referred to as Tokai Guitars, is a Japanese musical. The decals are the same for the basses as the guitars, so you cam extrapolate from those examples.

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