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• Agile
  Agile
  Agile can refer to:*Agility*Agile , an American Thoroughbred racehorse* Agile management*Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe *Agile Software Corporation, a provider of product lifecycle management solutions...
  
  
• Alembic
  Alembic Inc
  Alembic was founded in 1969 and is a manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps.-History:Ron and Susan Wickersham founded Alembic, Inc. in 1969...
  
  
• Almansa
  Almansa Guitarras
  Almansa is a Spanish based guitar manufacturer which produces classical guitars, flamenco guitars, bandurrias and lutes. The company was founded in 1989, and is located in Almansa, ....
  
  
• Alvarez
  Alvarez Guitars
  Alvarez is a guitar manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri and founded in 1965. Along with manufacturing acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars, Alvarez also manufactures classical guitars. Alvarez replaced Westone in 1991. Today, the brand is owned by LOUD Technologies, which also owns Mackie,...
  
  
• Amfisound
  Amfisound
  Amfisound is a Finnish-based manufacturer of guitars, founded in 2002. Players of Amfisound guitars include Chris Holmes , Vincent Cavanagh , Ricardo Amorim , J. Ahola , Mitja Harvilahti , and Tuomas Saukkonen ....
  
  
• Ampeg
  Ampeg
  Ampeg is primarily a musical instrument amplifier manufacturer headquartered in Woodinville, Washington, though they also manufacture guitars to a small extent...
  
  
• Tom Anderson Guitarworks
  Tom Anderson Guitarworks
  Tom Anderson Guitarworks is an American guitar manufacturer based in Newbury Park, California. Due to their high quality models, use of specific tone woods, low volume production and being highly sought after by professional musicians, Tom Anderson Guitarworks is generally considered to be a...
  
  
• Aria
  Aria (guitar company)
  Aria is a Japanese manufacturer of acoustic and electric guitars and basses.- History :Aria was formed in Japan in 1953 by Shiro Arai as Arai and Company. They began retailing acoustic guitars in 1960, although the company didn't actually start manufacturing their own until 1964. Aria arranged for...
  
  
• Avalon
  Avalon Guitars
  Avalon Guitars is the name of an acoustic guitar manufacturer based in Newtownards, County Down in Northern Ireland.- History :The company, Avalon Guitars Limited, was originally formed in 1989 as The Lowden Guitar Company Limited and operated from Bangor, County Down until 1990...
  
  
• AnkiT-K

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• Babicz
  Babicz Guitars
  Babicz Guitars is a manufacturer of high-end acoustic guitars and electric guitars and a producer of innovative and licensable guitar technology...
  
  
• John Bailey
  John Bailey (luthier)
  John Bailey was a British luthier who made and repaired guitars and other stringed instruments during the 1960s revival of English folk music and beyond. Bailey lived in London until 1972 when he moved to Dartmouth in Devon...
  
  
• BC Rich
• Bond
  Bond Electraglide
  The Bond Electraglide was a carbon fiber electric guitar manufactured by Bond Guitars between 1984 and 1985. It resembled a matte-black, 3-pickup Gibson Melody Maker , with a unique stepped aluminum fingerboard instead of traditional frets...
  
  
• Brawley
  Brawley Guitars
  Brawley Guitars was a range of electric guitars produced under the Brawley name. Keith Brawley had previously been an executive for Fender/Squier from 1989-2001....
  
  
• Burns London
  Burns London
  Burns London is a guitar-making company originally formed in 1960 as Ormston Burns Ltd. It was founded by James Ormston Burns , who has been described as the British Leo Fender...
  
  
• BreedLove
  Breedlove
  The name Breedlove can refer to:People named Breedlove:*Craig Breedlove, five-time world land speed record holder*Dennis E. Breedlove, American botanist*Lynn Breedlove, American musician*Rod Breedlove, former American Football linebacker...
  
  

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• Caparison Guitars
  Caparison Guitars
  Caparison Guitars is a Japan-based manufacturer of custom shop electric guitars.-History:The Caparison Guitar company was established in 1995 by former Jackson/Charvel Japan designer Itaru Kanno and was owned by Kyowa Shokai, a company that made contracts with factories to produce guitars for them...
  
  
• Carlos
  Carlos (Guitar)
  The Carlos Guitar brand stems from Korea. A series of models have been produced and many early models were hand crafted.The manufacturers continued to handcraft guitars up to the late 1960s, the last said to be some of the earlier Model 249 guitars....
  
  
• Carparelli Guitars
• Carvin
• C. F. Martin & Company
  C. F. Martin & Company
  C.F. Martin & Company is a US guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin. Martin is highly regarded for its steel-string guitars, and is a leading mass manufacturer of flattop acoustics with models that retail for thousands of dollars and vintage instruments that often...
  
  
• Chapman Guitars
  Chapman Guitars
  Chapman Guitars is a guitar company established in 2009 by Rob Chapman, a guitarist best known for his success on Youtube. The company claims to be the first to design its guitars "collaboratively", and the design, features and even the price of new models are selected by the votes of Chapman's...
  
  
• Charvel
  Charvel
  Charvel is a brand of guitar originally founded in the 1970s by Wayne Charvel in Azusa, California and then later, Glendora, California. Charvel guitars became popular in the 1980s due to their association with famous rock guitarists such as Edward Van Halen , Richie Sambora , Warren DeMartini ,...
  
  
• Collings Guitars
  Collings Guitars
  Collings Guitars is an Austin, Texas based stringed instrument manufacturer. Founded by Bill Collings in 1973, Collings today produces acoustic guitars, electric guitars, archtop guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles.- History :...
  
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• Cordoba Guitars http://www.cordobaguitars.com/
• Cort
  Cort Guitars
  Cort Guitars is a guitar manufacturer centered in South Korea. The company is one of the largest guitar makers in the world, and produces instruments for many other companies.- History :...
  
  
• Crafter
  Crafter
  Crafter is the international division of Sung-Eum music Co Ltd. It is a manufacturer of acoustic and electric guitars.-History:Founded by Hyun Kwon Park in April 1972, the first "factory" of Sung-Eum music Co Ltd. was in Hyun's own basement. During this so called "early period," they produced...
  
  

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• Daisy Rock Girl Guitars
• DBZ Guitars
  DBZ Guitars
  DBZ Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer owned and operated by Dean B. Zelinsky, Jeff Diamant of Diamond Amplification, along with partner Terry Martin....
  
  
• Dean
  Dean Guitars
  Dean Guitars is an American manufacturer of guitars. It was founded in 1976 by Dean Zelinsky in Chicago, Illinois and is currently under the ownership of Armadillo Enterprises in Tampa, Florida.- History :...
  
  
• D'Alegria
  D'Alegria
  D'Alegria is a Brazilian company specialized in manufacturing custom-made electric basses and guitars, all handmade with the best woods in Brazil.- History :...
  
  
• D'Angelico
• Danelectro
  Danelectro
  Danelectro is an American manufacturer of musical instruments and accessories, specializing in rock instruments such as guitars, bass guitars, amplifiers and effects units.-History:...
  
  
• D'aquisto
  Jimmy D'Aquisto
  James L. D'Aquisto was an American guitar maker best known as the premier maker of custom guitars. He served as an apprentice to John D'Angelico from 1952 and was considered his successor after the latter's death in 1964....
  
  
• Dobro
  Dobro
  Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
  
  
• Duesenberg
  Duesenberg Guitars
  Duesenberg Guitars is a German company producing high-end electric guitars and basses with a distinctive Art Deco design since 1986. The company's name alludes to the legendary car company Duesenberg....
  
  

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• Eastwood
  Eastwood Guitars
  Eastwood Guitars is a Canadian / Korean company set up by Michael Robinson which reproduces an array of classic electric guitar designs.The company was established by Michael Robinson in 2001 because he wanted to re-create affordable and playable versions of rare vintage electric guitars that have...
  
  
• Eccleshall
  Chris Eccleshall
  Christopher J. Eccleshall is an English luthier, guitar designer, guitar dealer and authorised repairer of Martin, Gibson and Guild guitars, and also received the blessing of Mario Maccaferri to make reproductions of his Selmer-Maccaferri jazz guitars.His main business is making custom-built...
  
  
• Edwards
  ESP Edwards Series
  The ESP Edwards brand instruments are produced for the Japanese market, originally consisting of Fender and Gibson replicas. They are generally considered to be of almost equal quality to the main ESP brand, the fundamental difference being the tonewoods...
  
  
• Epiphone
  Epiphone
  The Epiphone Company is a musical instrument manufacturer founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos. Epiphone was bought by Chicago Musical Instrument Company, which also owned Gibson Guitar Corporation, in 1957. Epiphone was Gibson's main rival in the archtop market...
  
  
• ESP
  ESP Guitars
  , located in North Hollywood, California, is an American-based, Japanese-owned manufacturer of electric guitars and basses.- History :In 1975, Hisatake Shibuya opened a shop called Electric Sound Products in Tokyo. It provided custom replacement parts for guitars. In 1976, ESP gained a reputation...
  
  
• Eko
  Eko guitars
  Eko is an Italian manufacturer of electric guitars, acoustic guitars and similar instruments, catering to professional level and manufacturing largely for export...
  
  

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• Fender
• Fernandes
  Fernandes Guitars
  Fernandes Guitars is a guitar and accessory manufacturer that originated in Japan in 1969, building flamenco guitars. As the company grew it expanded production to include more acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars, amplifiers, and accessories to become one of the biggest guitar...
  
  
• First Act
  First Act
  First Act is a musical instrument manufacturer, which producers guitars, bass guitars, guitar and bass accessories, drum sets, percussion instruments, amplifiers as well as student-line clarinets, saxophones, and trumpets...
  
  
• Flaxwood Guitars
  Flaxwood Guitars
  Flaxwood Guitars is a guitar manufacturer in Heinävaara, Finland. The company was established in 2004. It makes guitars from a wood-based new composite material called Kareline, which is recyclable and environmentally friendly, as well as being acoustically optimized to work as something of an...
  
  
• Floyd Rose
  Floyd Rose
  The Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo, or simply Floyd Rose, is a type of locking vibrato arm for a guitar. The first of its kind, Floyd D. Rose invented the locking vibrato in 1977, and it is now manufactured by a company of the same name...
  
  
• Fodera
  Fodera
  Fodera is an American manufacturer of electric bass guitars. Fodera Basses are made in the Fodera Shop in Brooklyn, New York. Vinnie Fodera and Joey Lauricella started their own company around 1983 after dissolving their working relationship with Ken Smith Basses. The company also manufactures a...
  
  
• Framus
  Framus
  Framus is a German guitar, bass, lap steel guitars and banjo manufacturing company, that existed from 1946 until going bankrupt in 1975. The Framus brand was revived in 1995 as part of Warwick GmbH & Co Music Equipment KG in Markneukirchen ....
  
  
• Freshman
  Freshman Guitars
  Freshman Guitars is a Scottish guitar company launched in 2002, producing acoustic and electric guitars.The guitars are made in China, under supervision from the headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland....
  
  
• Fretlight
• FujiGen
  FujiGen
  FujiGen Gakki フジゲン 楽器 is a musical instrument manufacturer based at Matsumoto in Japan and is named after the famous Mount Fuji. Gen means stringed instruments and Gakki means musical instrument - the name being literally translated as "Fuji Stringed Musical Instruments"...
  
  
• Furch

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• G&L
• Gallotone guitar
  Gallotone guitar
  The Gallotone Champion Guitar was an acoustic guitar manufactured in South Africa by the country's largest record company, Gallo Africa, during the 1950s and '60s...
  
  
• Garrison
  Garrison Guitars
  Garrison Guitars was founded by Newfoundland native Chris Griffiths. He designed an injection mold process to efficiently manufacture his guitars. The company was purchased in 2007 by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, and converted to produce the Gibson acoustic Songmaker series....
  
  
• Gaskell Guitars
• Giannini
  Giannini
  Giannini is a traditional fine musical instruments maker in Brazil.Founded in 1900 by Tranquillo Giannini, an Italian immigrant with enormous luthier talents. Their first industrial plant was locatet at Av...
  
  
• Gibson
  Gibson Guitar Corporation
  The Gibson Guitar Corporation, formerly of Kalamazoo, Michigan and currently of Nashville, Tennessee, manufactures guitars and other instruments which sell under a variety of brand names...
  
  
• Gilberto Grácio
  Gilberto Grácio
  Gilberto Grácio is a famous Portuguese guitar maker, born in Lisbon on 12 May 1936. He is the son of João Pedro Grácio Junior and the grandson of João Pedro Grácio, both renowned luthiers...
  
  
• Godin
  Godin (Guitar Manufacturer)
  - History :Godin started building Robert Godin's guitars in 1972 in La Patrie, Quebec.Godin Guitars' head office is located in Montreal, and they build their instruments in six factories in four different locations, three in Quebec and one in New Hampshire....
  
  
• Gordon-Smith
• Granada
  Granada
  Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...
  
  
• Grass Roots
  ESP Grass Roots Series
  The ESP Grass Roots brand is a brand that produces guitars solely in the Japanese market. Grass Roots guitars are aimed at the low cost market, and can be considered as superior to the LTD guitars, but not the 400 series, The Edwards Series or Navigator Series...
  
  
• Greco
  Greco guitars
  Greco are a brand of electric guitars produced by Kanda Shokai 神田商会. Kanda Shokai is a musical instrument wholesaler mostly known for being part of Fender Japan.-History:...
  
  
• Greg Bennett
  Greg Bennett Guitars
  Greg Bennett Guitars are produced by Samick Music Corporation.After 40 years of producing guitars, Korean musical instruments manufacturer Samick hired industry veteran Greg Bennett to give their guitar line a radical makeover, with the goal of improving appearance, sound quality, and build...
  
  
• Gretsch
  Gretsch
  The Gretsch Company was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a twenty-seven year old German immigrant recently arrived in the US. Friedrich Gretsch manufactured banjos, tambourines, and drums, until his death in 1895. His son, Fred, moved operations to Brooklyn, New York in 1916...
  
  
• Guild
  Guild Guitar Company
  The Guild Guitar Company is a USA-based guitar manufacturer founded in 1952 by Alfred Dronge, a guitarist and music-store owner, and George Mann, a former executive with the Epiphone Guitar Company...
  
  

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• Hagström
  Hagström
  Hagström is a musical instrument manufacturer in Älvdalen, Dalecarlia, Sweden. Their original products were accordions that they initially imported from Germany and then Italy before opening their own facility in 1932. During the sixties, the company started making electric guitars and later...
  
  
• Hamer
  Hamer Guitars
  Hamer Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars. Founded in 1973 by vintage guitar shop owners, Jol Dantzig and his business partner Paul Hamer. Early instruments featured guitar designs based on the Gibson Explorer and Flying V...
  
  
• Harmony
  Harmony Company
  thumb|right|250px|A collection of Harmony guitars:SS Stewart gold acoustic, H73 [[Roy Smeck]], H37 Hollywood, Silvertone 1446, H44 StratotoneThe Harmony Company was an American company that, in its heyday, was the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the USA...
  
  
• Heritage Guitars
  Heritage Guitars
  Heritage Guitars is a guitar manufacturer in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.-History:Heritage Guitars was founded in 1985 by former employees of the Gibson guitar factory...
  
  
• Höfner
  Höfner
  Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, with one division that manufactures guitars and basses, and another that manufactures other string instruments....
  
  
• Hohner
  Hohner
  Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG is a company specialising in the manufacture of musical instruments. Founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner , Hohner is identified especially with harmonicas and accordions. The Hohner company has invented and produced many different styles, and most of the...
  
  
• Hondo
  Hondo (guitar company)
  Hondo was an American guitar company and brand owned by Musicorp that produced entry level acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses with designs that are usually based on the designs of more expensive models such as the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul. These models are of good...
  
  
• Hoyer Guitars

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• Jackson
  Jackson Guitars
  __FORCETOC__Jackson is a renowned brand of electric guitar that bears the name of its founder, Grover Jackson.-Early years:Grover Jackson obtained ownership in Charvel's Guitar Repair of Glendora, California in the 1970s with a promise to bolster Charvel's business...
  
  
• James Tyler Guitars
  James Tyler Guitars
  James Tyler Guitars is a manufacturer of boutique electric guitars. The company is located near Van Nuys, California and was established in 1972. It was long regarded as LA studio musicians' "business secret", and consequently reached the public eye through studio musicians like Dan Huff, Michael...
  
  
• James Trussart
• Jay Turser
  Jay Turser
  Jay Turser is a stringed instrument manufacturer owned by US Music Corporation, located in Mundelein, IL. Jay Turser produces guitars, basses, mandolins and banjos in a variety of models ranging from low-cost, entry-level to mid price points that are considered by many to be an excellent value for...
  
  
• Johnson
  Johnson Guitars
  Johnson Guitars U.S.A. is a musical instrument manufacturer in Yuma, Arizona, founded in 1986. They design and manufacture solid and semi-acoustic body guitars and basses. While many of their instruments are of their own design, they also manufacture very creditable versions of some of the most...
  
  
• Jolana
  Jolana
  Jolana was a Czechoslovakian brand, producing electric guitars and basses from 1953 to 1989. Especially during the 1960s it supposedly gained popularity in the UK and George Harrison, Jimmy Page as well as Eric Clapton are said to have used the Futurama model. When the quality of Czech Guitars...
  
  
• Jonas Guitars

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• Kalamazoo
  Gibson Kalamazoo Electric Guitar
  The Kalamazoo Electric Guitar was an electric guitar produced by Gibson during the 1960s and 1970s under Gibson's parent company Chicago Musical Instruments. A budget model, it had a body that was made of Medium-Density Fiberboard and inexpensive components.-The Kalamazoo:There were two prominent...
  
  
• Kawai
• Kay
  Kay Musical Instrument Company
  Kay Musical Instrument Company was a prolific American manufacturer of musical instruments that operated from the 1930s through the 1960s. Although Kay's first electric guitar was offered in 1936 , Kay is known as an electric guitar pioneer  because their past company Stromberg-Voisinet...
  
  
• Klira
  Klira
  Klira was a German string instrument manufacturer, from 1887 until 1982.Starting with the classic violin family of instruments, the production range was extended by acoustic and electric guitars around the 1950:s....
  
  
• Kramer
  Kramer Guitars
  Kramer Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses. Kramer produced aluminum-necked electric guitars and basses in the 1970s and wooden-necked guitars catering to hard rock and heavy metal musicians in the 1980s; Kramer is currently a division of Gibson Guitar Corporation...
  
  
• Kustom
• Kayne

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• Lado
  Lado Guitars
  Lado Musical Inc. is the official company name of what is otherwise known as Lado Guitars or J.K. Lado & Co. , owned and operated by Joe Kovacic - more commonly known as Joe Lado - in Ontario, Canada....
  
  
• Lag
  Lag (company)
  Lâg Guitars is a French music company founded in the Occitania region of France, by master luthier Michel Lâg-Chavarria. Lâg is most popular for its guitars . Lâg has produced guitars since 1980, starting with Beast superstrat models to arkane, which is the most popular and requested from all...
  
  
• Laguna
• Lakewood
  Lakewood
  - Places :In Australia* Lakewood, Western Australia, an abandoned town in Western AustraliaIn Canada:* Lakewood Suburban Centre, Saskatoon, a subdivision in the city of SaskatoonIn the Philippines:* Lakewood, Zamboanga del Sur...
  
  
• Larrivée
  Larrivée (guitar company)
  Jean Larrivée Guitars Ltd. is a family-owned and -operated Canadian company that manufacturers acoustic guitars. Founded in 1967 by Jean Larrivée, the company was moved from Toronto, Ontario to Victoria, British Columbia in 1977, and to Vancouver in 1982...
  
  
• Levin
  Levin (guitar company)
  Levin is a Swedish manufacturer of musical instruments founded by Herman Carlson Levin, that was active between 1900 and 1978. The company produced over half a million instruments in the 80 years that it was active, mostly guitars but also mandolines, banjos and lutes, which made Levin into the...
  
  
• Lindert
  Lindert Guitars
  Lindert Guitars was a hand-made electric guitar manufacturing company founded in 1986 in Chelan Falls in Wenatchee, Washington. Production of guitars was moved to Korea and the company shut down shortly afterwards, with the last guitars created around 2002...
  
  
• Line 6
• Lotus Guitars
• Lowden
  George Lowden
  George Lowden is a guitar maker, luthier, based in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. He constructs acoustic guitars, steel and nylon strung.-Company:...
  
  
• Luna Guitars
• Lyle
  Lyle guitars
  Lyle guitars were made in Japan sometime between 1960 to the late 1970s out of the Matsumoku guitar factory that produced Univox, Arai, Aria and other guitars.- History :...
  
  
• LTD

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• Madarozzo http://www.madarozzo.com
• C.F. Martin & Company
• Maton
  Maton
  Maton is an Australian manufacturer of guitars and other fretted musical instruments.Maton was founded in 1946 as the Maton Musical Instruments Company by Bill May and his brother Reg...
  
  
• Matsumoku
  Matsumoku
  Matsumoku Industrial was established around 1900 as a woodworking manufacturer of various items but is best known as a manufacturer of high quality guitars and bass guitars.- History :...
  
  
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• Maestro guitars
  Maestro guitars
  Maestro is a brand of guitars from Singapore, who produces Classical guitars, Steel-string acoustic guitars and Ukuleles. Maestro Guitars are some of the guitar companies from Singapore. The company own their own production facilities in China.- History :...
  
  
• Martinez
  Martinez
  -Argentina:* Martínez, Buenos Aires* Coronel Martínez de Hoz, Buenos Aires Province* Villa Martínez de Hoz, Buenos Aires Province* Martínez del Tineo, Salta...
  
  
• Mayones Guitars & Basses
  Mayones Guitars & Basses
  Mayones Guitars & Basses, established in 1982, is a manufacturer of electric guitars and bass guitars, located in Gdansk, Poland.-A:*Anders Nyström *Andrew Craighan *Andy Slade...
  
  
• McPherson
  McPherson
  - In sports :* Adrian McPherson, American NFL football player* Archie McPherson , Scottish footballer of the 1930s* Dallas McPherson, American MLB baseball player* Dave McPherson , Scottish retired football player, player agent...
  
  
• Melancon
• Michael Kelly
  Michael Kelly Guitars
  Michael Kelly Guitars is an American guitar, bass and mandolin manufacturer, based in Clearwater, Florida. They are a division of Hansor Music Group, who also own B.C. Rich Guitars, Rockfield Pickups, and Kustom amplifiers. Michael Kelly Guitars was founded in 1999...
  
  
• Morris
  Morris
  -People:* Morris , a common family name * Morris , Belgian cartoonist, creator of Lucky Luke* Morris, one of the 14 Tribes of Galway, Ireland-Places:In Canada*Morris, Manitoba...
  
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• Moser guitars
• Mosrite
  Mosrite
  Mosrite is an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Founded by Semie Moseley, Mosrite guitars were played by many rock and roll and country artists....
  
  
• Motor Ave
• Music Man
  Music Man (company)
  Music Man is an American guitar, and bass guitar manufacturer. It is a division of the Ernie Ball corporation.-Early years:The Music Man story began in 1971 when Forrest White and Tom Walker talked with Leo Fender about starting a company they would call Tri-Sonic, Inc...
  
  

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• National String Instrument Corporation
  National String Instrument Corporation
  The National String Instrument Corporation was a guitar company that formed to manufacture the first resonator guitars.-National resonator guitar designs:...
  
  
• Navigator
  Navigator
  A navigator is the person on board a ship or aircraft responsible for its navigation. The navigator's primary responsibility is to be aware of ship or aircraft position at all times. Responsibilities include planning the journey, advising the Captain or aircraft Commander of estimated timing to...
  
  
• Nick Benjamin
  Nick Benjamin
  Nick Benjamin was an offensive lineman with the Ottawa Rough Riders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1985 to 1993.-Collegiate career:...
  
  
• Novax Guitars
  Novax Guitars
  Novax Guitars is a guitar manufacturing company founded by Ralph Novak. His instruments feature frets which are not perpendicular to the instrument's neck , but rather fan out at various angles to allow for more comfortable, ergonomic playing and for proper intonation.Charlie Hunter, an acclaimed...
  
  
• Normandy Guitars

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• Palm Bay Guitars
• Parker
  Parker Guitars
  Parker Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses, started by luthier Ken Parker in the early 90s. Parker is most famous for making the Parker Fly....
  
  
• Parkwood
• Paul Reed Smith
  PRS Guitars
  PRS Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer headquartered in Stevensville, Maryland. PRS Guitars was founded by guitarist and luthier Paul Reed Smith in 1985. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of high-end electric guitars.-Materials:...
  
  
• Pealight
• Peavey
  Peavey Electronics
  Peavey Electronics Corporation is one of the largest audio equipment manufacturers in the world, headquartered in Meridian, Mississippi in the United States.- History :...
  
  

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• Rainsong
  Rainsong
  RainSong is an acoustic guitar manufacturer currently based in Woodinville, Washington, and originally based in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. The company makes high-end carbon fiber bodied acoustics and acoustic electrics, with past models including nylon string guitars, 12-string guitars, and a jazz...
  
  
• Regal
  Regal
  -Musical Instrument:*Regal , a keyboard instrument manually pumped by bellows and having a raucous, nasal sound-Surname:*Steve Regal , retired American professional wrestler. Not to be confused with "Steven Regal", a former ring name of:*William Regal , real name Darren Matthews, a British...
  
  
• Reverend
  Reverend guitars
  Reverend Musical Instruments, commonly known as Reverend, is an American manufacturer of electric guitars. The company was established in 1996 by noted guitar and amplifier technician Joe Naylor, a graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery...
  
  
• Rickenbacker
  Rickenbacker
  Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California...
  
  
• Rikter
• Robin Guitars
  Robin Guitars
  Robin Guitars is a boutique guitar manufacturer located in Houston, Texas.The company was formed in 1982 by Dave Wintz who owned the Rockin' Robin Guitar Shop at the time. Robin guitars were made in Japan by Tokai and Chushin until 1986, when their production moved to the United States...
  
  
• Ruokangas Guitars
  Ruokangas Guitars
  Ruokangas Guitars builds solid-body and semi-hollow electric guitars, including models such as Duke, VSOP, Mojo, Hellcat and Unicorn. The company builds guitars using traditional methods – no modern computer controlled machinery etc....
  
  

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• Samick
  Samick
  Samick is the name of a Korea-based musical instrument manufacturer, one of the largest in the world.The name refers to the entire Samick Musical Instruments, which owns several manufacturers of pianos, guitars, and other instruments. The company started as 'Samick Pianos' in 1958, manufacturing...
  
  
• Schecter
  Schecter Guitar Research
  Schecter Guitar Research, commonly known as simply as Schecter, is a US guitar manufacturer. The company was founded in 1976 by David Schecter and originally produced only replacement parts for existing guitars from manufacturers such as Fender and Gibson...
  
  
• Sadowsky
  Sadowsky
  Sadowsky Guitars Limited is a Queens, New York based high-end guitar, bass guitar, and preamp manufacturer. The company took its name from the company founder, Roger Sadowsky. Sadowsky is an alumnus of SUNY Geneseo, and built the business from the ground up, in 1979, after 7 years of guitar...
  
  
• Santa Cruz
• Seagull (by Godin)
• Shaman
• Shine
  Shine Guitars
  Shine Guitars is a Korean brand of electric guitars and bass guitars produced by Saein Musical Instrument Co. Ltd.Saein Musical Instrument Co., Ltd. Is located in Namdong Industrial Complex in Incheon, Korea. Saein was established on 1991-01-07...
  
  
• Simon&Patrick Luthier (by Godin)
• Sliver
  Sliver
  Sliver is a novel by U.S. author Ira Levin about the mysterious people in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building, especially after a new tenant — an attractive young working woman in publishing — has moved in...
  
  
• Squier
  Squier
  Squier is a musical instrument brand name owned by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.-History:Fender, under the ownership of CBS, acquired the Squier brand name in 1965 when it bought a USA based string making firm , but it lay dormant for many years...
  
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• Sparrow Guitars
• Spruce Hill Guitars (Aluminum Body Guitars)
• Spirit
  Spirit
  The English word spirit has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body.The spirit of a living thing usually refers to or explains its consciousness.The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap,...
  
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• Stagg Music
  Stagg Music
  Stagg music is a Belgian musical instrument manufacturer. They produce a wide range of musical instruments, including guitars, bass guitars, drums, percussion, cymbals and brass instruments as well as pro audio equipment.Cymbal Range...
  
  
• Starforce
  StarForce
  StarForce is a software copy protection mechanism developed by Protection Technology, which claims that products protected with StarForce are difficult to reverse engineer.- Product families :Currently known official versions of StarForce include:...
  
  
• Steinberger
  Steinberger
  Steinberger refers to a series of distinctive electric guitars and bass guitars, designed and originally manufactured by Ned Steinberger. The word Steinberger can be used to refer to either the instruments themselves or the company that produced them...
  
  
• Stella
  Stella (guitar)
  Stella was a brand of guitars. The Stella brand was owned by the Oscar Schmidt Company and was founded around 1899. Stella produced low-mid level stringed instruments. Stella guitars were played by several notable artists including Leadbelly and Charlie Patton. Doc Watson began playing on a Stella...
  
  
• Storm
  Storm
  A storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather...
  
  
• Sugi
• Suhr Guitars
  Suhr Guitars
  Suhr Guitars is an American company that manufactures electric guitars and basses, guitar amplifiers, and effect units...
  
  
• Sundberg Guitars
  Sundberg Guitars
  Sundberg Guitars is a Swedish company that produces handmade high-quality acoustic guitars. All instruments are available with a wide range of different options and custom details. Recently Sundberg delivered an Irish bouzouki to Swedish singer Lars Winnerbäck, and the instrument will soon be added...
  
  
• Suzuki
  Suzuki
  is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...
  
  
• SX
  SX
  SX may refer to:* SX News, a gay and lesbian newspaper in Sydney, Australia* Parallax SX, a range of micro-controllers made by Ubicom* 1000BASE-SX, a fiber optic gigabit Ethernet standard* Skybus Airlines's IATA airline code...
  
  

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• Takamine
  Takamine Guitars
  is a Japanese guitar manufacturer based in Nakatsugawa, Gifu, Japan. Takamine is known for its steel-string guitars.The company was founded in May 1962; in 1978 they were one of the first companies to introduce acoustic-electric models, where they pioneered the design of the preamp-equalizer...
  
  
• Taylor
  Taylor Guitars
  Taylor Guitars is an El Cajon, California‐based luthier, specializing in acoustic guitars, as well as semi-hollow and solidbody electric guitars. It was established in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug.- History :...
  
  
• Tatra
  Tatra Guitars
  Tatra Guitars was a manufacturer of acoustic guitars from the former country of Czechoslovakia, Tatra. These guitars were most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mainly making classical acoustic guitars, Tatra offered affordable, good quality guitars. They are good guitars to learn on,...
  
  
• Teisco
  Teisco
  Teisco was a Japanese manufacturer of affordable musical instruments from 1948 until 1969, and now its brand is owned by Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. Ltd. . The company produced guitars as well as keyboard instruments, microphones, amplifiers and even drums...
  
  
• Tobias
• Tom Anderson Guitarworks
  Tom Anderson Guitarworks
  Tom Anderson Guitarworks is an American guitar manufacturer based in Newbury Park, California. Due to their high quality models, use of specific tone woods, low volume production and being highly sought after by professional musicians, Tom Anderson Guitarworks is generally considered to be a...
  
  
• Tonante
  Tonante
  Tonante, initially called Ao Rei dos Violões Limitada , was started on April 5 of 1954 by the Portuguese brothers Abel and Samuel Tonante who artisanelly built musical instruments, thirteen years after their arrival in Brazil...
  
  
• Traben
• Travis Bean
  Travis Bean
  Clifford Travis Bean was an American luthier and machinist from California.In 1974, he partnered with Marc McElwee and Gary Kramer to start Travis Bean Guitars, which made high-end electric guitars and basses featuring machined aluminum necks. This was an unusual design, departing from more...
  
  
• Trembita Musical Instrument Factory
  Trembita Musical Instrument Factory
  -History:The Lviv factory of musical instruments known as "Trembita" is primarily a factory for the manufacture of guitars and mandolins.A workshop for the serial production of banduras was established there and since 1964 the factory has produced various types of banduras designed by Professor...
  
  
• TYM Guitars
  TYM Guitars
  TYM Guitars is a manufacturer of custom guitars and bass guitar based in Brisbane, Australia, as well as custom instruments the company also repairs, restores, refinishes vintage instruments...
  
  
• Tanglewood Guitars
  Tanglewood Guitars
  -History:The business was founded in London in 1988. Tanglewood Guitars produce Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Electric Basses & a range of Folk instruments.Tanglewood is now based in Biggin Hill, Kent, with a second warehouse near Wetherby in Yorkshire....
  
  
• TGM Guitars

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• Valley Arts Guitar
  Valley Arts Guitar
  Valley Arts Guitar is an American electric guitar manufacturer currently owned and operated by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Mike McGuire and Al Carness founded the company in the mid-1970s in North Hollywood, California, a district of Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley; the name...
  
  
• Vantage Guitars
• Vester Guitars
  Vester Guitars
  Vester was a music instrument manufacturer specializing in guitars and guitar amplifiers. Formed as a part of the Samuel Music Company based in Effingham, Illinois, Vester is perhaps best known for their good quality Japanese and Korean import electric and acoustic guitars.The Samuel Music Company,...
  
  
• Vigier Guitars
  Vigier Guitars
  -History:1978: Patrice Vigier sets up as an independent luthier.1980: Exhibits at his first music show in Paris introducing the Arpege series and the following: A/ Trapezoid through body neck B/ Metallic reinforcement under the fretboard...
  
  
• Vintage
  Vintage
  Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product . A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines, it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and...
  
  
• VOX
  Vox (musical equipment)
  Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer which is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, the Vox Continental electric organ, and a series of innovative but commercially unsuccessful electric guitars and bass guitars...
  
  

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• Walden
  Walden Guitars
  Walden Guitars is a manufacturer of acoustic guitars and classical guitars. Walden Guitars are built in the small town of Lilan, nearby Langfang, China. Formed in 1996, Walden Guitars is a collaboration between CFox Guitars, Inc. luthiers Charles Fox and Jonathan Lee, and Taiwan instrument...
  
  
• Warren
  Warren
  - Definition :Warren refers to a network of underground interconnecting rabbit burrows, a place where rabbits breed and live, or an overcrowded place or building.- Geographical names :* Warrens, Saint Michael, Barbados* Warren, Manitoba, Canada...
  
  
• Warrior Guitar
• Warwick
  Warwick (bass guitar)
  -Overview:Warwick basses were originally a premium brand offering a small range of models built from high quality and exotic tonewoods with 'Neck-through' design...
  
  
• Washburn
  Washburn Guitars
  Washburn Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer. It was established in 1883 in Chicago, Illinois. Washburn is a part of U.S. Music Corporation.- History :...
  
  
• Waterstone Musical Instruments
• Wechter
• Weissenborn
  Weissenborn
  Weissenborn or H. Weissenborn is a brand of lap slide guitar manufactured by Hermann Weissenborn in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s....
  
  
• Westfield (guitars)
  Westfield (guitars)
  Westfield guitars are a Scottish based guitar brand, owned by P&R Howard Ltd.Experts in budget guitars, they produce and sell acoustic, electric and bass guitars....
  
  
• Westone
  Westone (guitars)
  Westone is a brand of guitars and basses started in the late 1970s. Saint Louis Music acquired an interest in the company in 1981 and began importing the brand to the USA as a replacement brandname for the Custom Kraft-brand instruments manufactured by Kay and Valco in the mid-1950s. Electra was...
  
  

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• Zemaitis
  Zemaitis Guitars
  Zemaitis Guitars is a British guitar-manufacturing company based in Tokyo, Japan. The company's guitars are based on designs by the Lithuanian luthier Tony Zemaitis. The company is led by his son, Tony Zemaitis, Jr., and produces both electric and acoustic guitars.- History :Tony Zemaitis began...
  
  
• * Zion
  Zion
  Zion is a place name often used as a synonym for Jerusalem. The word is first found in Samuel II, 5:7 dating to c.630-540 BCE...
  
  
• Zon
  Zon Guitars
  Zon Guitars is a manufacturer of bass guitars founded in 1981 by Joseph Zon.-Background:The company is known for its bass guitar models which feature non-traditional designs and materials. The brand is most closely associated with endorser and player Michael Manring, who collaborated with the...
  
  
• Zoller