They have been credited with Camel and Fresher badged guitars, although Freshers were also made by Chushin in the late 1970s. This company, which may have been a distributor as opposed to a manufacturer, was a member of the Matsumoto Musical Instrument Association. Possible badged guitars made by the company include: Astrotone, Demian, G-Holiday, Lafayette, Master, Orange, Tamaki and Trump. Badged guitars produced by the Kawai Teisco factories include Apollo, Aquarius, Arbiter, Atlas, Audition, Avar, Ayar, Barth, Beltone, Black Jack, Cameo, Cipher, Concert, Cougar, Crown, Daimaru, Decca, Diasonic, Domino, Duke, Emperador, Heit Deluxe, Holiday, Imperial, Inter-Mark Cipher, Jedson, Kay, Kent, Kimberly, Kingsley, Kingston, Keefy, Lindell, Marquis, May Queen, Minister, Noble, Prestige, Randall, Recco, Regina, Rexina, Sakai, Satellite, Schaffer, Sekova, Silvertone, Sorrento, Sterling, Swinger, Tele Star, Top Twenty, Victoria, and Winston. Kawai Teisco made their own house brands Kawai, Teisco, Del Rey and Teisco Del Rey. The company also produced the popular Ibanez badge in the 1960s. Kawai Teisco was founded by Atswo Kaneko and Doryu Matsuda. Badged guitars known to have been made by Kasuga include Conrad, Emperador, ES-S, Ganson, Heerby, Hondo, Mei Mei and Roland. Unlike many Japanese manufacturers who outsourced their guitar production in other factories outside the main maker, Kasuga produced all their products in-house. Kasuga guitars were first sold in America in 1972. For a brief period of time the company produced Yamaha acoustic guitars. Kasuga produced their own house brand in Kasuga guitars.
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