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Leave them tuned, don't worry about slight detuning- stretch the strings like you normally would. If the Maton is an acoustic, feel free to drop the tuning a whole step. The climate controlled facility is the way to go.

Anytime something is no longer made and the passage of time has moved a product into the "unobtanium" category they can become more valuable to some. I remember the Shenandoah models as decent enough guitars- don't recall B & S specs.

Not sure who is being referred to but a Mr.Dee managed the Veneman's Rockville, MD location circa the early 80s. Its a pretty safe bet the Venemans could tell you who made the guitars.

I worked there, at Veneman's that is. Nagoyas were the house brand acoustics and Bradleys the electrics, though the Bradley name showed up on some acoustic/electric product from Korea later 90s. As stated, Music Emporium was a pretty succesful mail order division pre MF. Also the metro DC area is highly transient, as people come from all over for government jobs and education and sometimes leave 4 years later. Both Bradley and Nagoya were succesor to the Kapa brand which was the previous Veneman house brand, mostly used on electrics assembled in MD and some import acoustics. Kapa- name formed from Veneman family first initials Bradley- street in Bethesda, MD near a former Veneman chain location and also home. Nagoya- city in Japan known for various guitar and MI companies. Jack Casady used to teach at a Veneman's.

Veneman Music house brand as stated above. Veneman's were based in Rockville, MD with a store in Springfield,VA. Also had a mail-order division called Music Emporium. As for who exactly made them...I'm not sure which factories/companies were in Nagoya. I am pretty sure the Bradley brand ,which was also a Veneman house brand, was sourced from both Matsumoku and Fuji Gen Gakki. Veneman also imported various MIJ parts in the early 80s and were pretty familiar with the Japanese musical instrument industry and moved a lot of Aria(Arai) guitars.Note that regarding the original BC Rich MIJ NJ series electric guitars the NJ stood for Nagoya,Japan.

70s Conn guitars could be pretty nice in a midgrade MIJ kind of way.I'm assuming that would be what she has since I haven't heard much about Conn guitars for some time.Pix?