Kazuo Yairi, who has died aged 81, was a Japanese classical guitar luthier whose fixation with acoustic sound drove him to make beautiful, resonant guitars favoured by musical such greats as Sir ...

Yairi Guitar, the famed guitar maker in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, is using pine trees knocked down by the March 11 tsunami to fashion instruments in hopes of engraving the disaster on people's memory ...

Alvarez is a St Louis based guitar brand, which is also well known for its collaboration with K Yairi guitars in Japan, producing the outstanding Alvarez-Yairi instruments. This instrument comes from ...