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Washington City Paper Nagoya Guitars: A Piece of D.C. Music History Fifty years later, the Nagoya guitars sold by Veneman Music are still prized, sought after, and played. Credit: Darrow Montgomery Three months into quarantine, I got my father’s old guitar down from the attic. After I cleaned and polished it and put on new strings, I was impressed: The dusty wood transformed into a sleek brown and tan instrument that looked very similar to Martin’s classic acoustic dreadnought guitars. When I strummed, it had a full, rich, melodic tone. But the guitar manufacturer’s name stamped on the inside of the body the Nagoya Guitar Company was unfamiliar. ....