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 Paul ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kazuo Yairi was a Japanese classical guitar luthier whose fixation with acoustic sound drove him to make beautiful, resonant guitars ...

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 ...