Yusuke Kawakami

Yusuke Kawakami - High River Guitars
High River Guitars is the current branding used by Yusuke Kawakami.

He is originally from Japan where he learned the art of luthiery first from his father, Hideho Kawakami, then he spent a year working at Larrivee Guitars in Canada in 1999. Returning from Canada in 2000 he founded the Majesty brand for making Ukuleles and used Y.Kawakami Guitars for branding acoustic Guitars.

In 2002 he moved from Japan to Vancouver, BC. Canada, but continued making Ukuleles and Guitars under the Majesty and Y.Kawakami Guitars branding.

In 2011 he combined the branding of all his instrument into the High River Guitars brand dropping the other names. He also reduced the range of Ukuleles he made, under Majesty he made Soprano, Concert and Tenor Ukuleles in a number of styles, but with the change to the High River Guitars brand he cut this back to only makes a small, (41½ cm), Tenor Ukulele model with a body shape that is based on the Martin Dreadnought Guitar in mahogany or koa and with or without a spruce top.

External Sites
High River Guitars Website Y. Kawakami Guitars Website Majesty Ukuleles.Website in Wayback