Not trying to be a negative nancy at all. I know it has some sentimental value, but it's definitely not worth much. I don't know that I'd pay $100 for a full pro super excellent setup. If it's mid-80s to the very early 90s, they may sound just fine. The pickups are likely very unexceptional if the guitar is from the mid-90s. The bad: the tuners may not be very good, it possibly has a soft plastic nut that might be a challenge to work with. I dig the 'not quite a strat' looks: the shape of the body and the headstock, the pickguard, the output cup pointing the 'wrong' way. Having said that, it could still be a very decent guitar. It won't be listed on the Matsumoku site because it isn't a Matsumoku guitar. I'd have to guess the guitar wasn't made in Japan either. Many consider Aria guitars to be very value orientated, with very good pricing.I haven't read up on them in many years, but I was thinking that that version of the Fullerton series guitars were from the mid '90s and those tuners and saddles tell me they weren't made in Japan. Many of the models are still sought after by collectors and players alike. With the input from various artists and from the founders of Tillman Distributors, Joe Tillman, Dean Tillman and Jerry Tillman, the Aria Pro II guitars made a real mark in the industry during that time. The guitars were distributed at this point by Tillman Distributors in Charlotte NC. The company had many professional endorsements such as Herb Ellis, Mike Biggs, Neal Schon, Rod Stewart Band, Jerry Reed, and many more.
In the 70s and early 80s the company came into its own in the United States with a series of high end professional instruments. Īria Pro II did some copies of famous American guitars like the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul though it also did it own style of guitars. In the mid-1990s a few models were made in the United States.
All guitars were made in Japan until 1988, when production of less expensive models was switched to Korea. The Aria brand name was changed to Aria Pro II in late 1975, though this has been used mostly, but not exclusively, for electric guitars. Arai and Matsumoku started building acoustic guitars in 1964, and then electric guitars in 1966, using Arai, Aria, Aria Diamond, and Diamond brand names. Aria arranged for Matsumoku, the musical instrument maker, to build the guitars for them under contract. They began retailing acoustic guitars in 1960, although the company didn't actually start manufacturing their own until 1964. The company was formed in Japan in 1953 by Shiro Arai as Arai and Company.
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