| My first *acoestic* guitar, this Aria, model 6810. I bought this at Euromusic in Apeldoorn for about 160,00 euro's. This guitar has been a part of my life for more then thirty years. The neck is super class, as is the sound. Because this guitar is so good, I have never felt the need to trade it in for a more expensive model. Nowadays it goes with me to every show, so I bought a very good gigbag for it. This guitar shows a lot of use and perhaps because of this, it became a very personal instrument. | |||||||||||||||
| This guitar does not have, unlike the normal western guitar, a heel, but the neck just sort of goes over in the body, where there is a piece of wood which keeps it together very well. | |||||||||||||||
| Aria has been building guitars for a long time. Sometimes with more succes then other times. Aria actually does not really have a great name for great guitars. Evenso, you find them reguraly, both acoestic as electric. I have never seen this one somewhere else. | |||||||||||||||
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From 1967 Aria added a variety of models including the solid body 1962T, R-320, and violin shaped 12-string and bass guitars, and a full acoustic guitar, the 1262. In 1975, Aria Pro II was developed from Aria’s custom shop making high-end models for professional users. In 1976, Aria Pro II released its first original model, the PE-1500. I acquired an ARIA acoustic guitar today. The owner thought it was probably 20 years old but was not sure. I think it is probably a basic model even though it has binding used. I have looked on the ARIA site with no luck how to read the serial number. Not sure if the 66 means 1966 or not as one other site suggested. Any assistance would be. At least for Aria guitars made by Matsumoku, the serial number contains the year of manufacture in the first one or two digits (Y##### or YY####). Thus, a guitar from 1979 might begin with 79####. One from 1981 might begin with 1#####. The scheme becomes less sure after 1987.
Vantage Dating and Serialnumbers
VANTAGE serial numbers (electric guitars/basses)
Aria 6810: Type: Western guitar: Serial nr: 1136305: Built +/- 1970: Body: Top massive spar. Neck: Mahogany: Elements: Piezo in bridge.
1978?/79:
V-100 model: “V-100”-sticker, no serial
1979 models:
VLP Spirit: six digit ser.nos. 05xxxx
Vantage Standard – VS: five digit ser.nos. 6xxxx
Vantage Performer – VP: five digit ser.nos. 7xxxx
700VP
Vantage Artist – VA: five digit ser.nos. 8xxxx
VA-800
Ghost (VP-750):
no or hard to read serial number.
1979 models: 4 digit serial number.
1979/1980 (until 4/80):
6 digit serial numbers: 0xxxxx
1980 (April) – 1984 (June?):
7 digit serial numbers
First digit = year of production (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984)
Digits 2 + 3 = month of production
VS-650
0040415 = 1980 – April – 0415
1980/81:
VA-900 series: 6 digits:
First digit (0 or 1) = year
Digts 2+3 month
VA-900
006108 = 1980 – June – 108
7 digit # for late ’81 models
Aria Guitars Serial Numbers History
1981/82:
“Special” series of VP and VA models: five digit ser.nos: 71xxx or 72xxx(VP), 81xxx or 82xxx(VA) (following the number system of their ’79/ ’80 predecessors)
1984 – 1988:
Letter prefix serial numbers:
(A-L)xxxxxx: letter=month
– A=January
– B=February
– C=March
– D=April
– E-May
– F=June
– G=July
– H=August
– I=September
– J=October
– K=November
– L=December
First digit=year of production (unconfirmed!)
33B-XF
J500338 = October – 1985 – 00338
1990 – 1998 (Samick models):
Aria Pro 2 Guitar Serial Numbers
Acoustic models (THis information is not verefied!!!)
Matsumoku didn’t produce any acoustic guitars themself. Their were set out to other factories.
Aria Guitars Serial Numbers
Here’s a list of producers with the code:
S = Samick
C = Cort
K = KWO
F = Fujigen
P = Peerless factory in Pusan Korea. PA = Acoustic and PE = Electric