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Larson (Brothers)
Carl (1867-1946) and August Larson (1873-1944) emigrated to Chicago in the late 1880s from Sweden. They worked for various Chicago guitar makers before buying the Maurer & Company in 1900 when...
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Lairat
French luthier Paul Lairat started making instruments in 1991 and opened his own workshop in 2000. Lairat is best known for his bass guitars. By 2012 he had made 108 instruments, including electric and...
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Appleton
Orbra Wallace "App" Appleton (1902 - 1994) was a musician and inventor, who reputedly made the first solid bodied electric guitar in 1941. Appleton showed his design to Gibson in 1943 but they did not...
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Sano
Sano was formed as an accordion company in 1951 in New Jersey by Nick Sano, an accordion player; Joe Zonfrilli, an electronics technician; and Lou Iorio (Zonfrilli's brother-in-law) a music teacher....
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Le Domino
The Le Domino line of instruments was made in Chicago by J.R. Stewart from 1926 to 1930 and included ukuleles, banjos and guitars. JR Stewart had worked for Harmony in the 1920s before starting his own...
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LEVIN
The Levin company was established by Herman Carlson Levin in 1900 in Goethenburg Sweden. At its peak during the 1960s the Levin factory had 130 workers making around 16000 guitars each year for the US...
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Picador
Picador guitars were relabelled Martin or Sigma acoustic guitars - that failed cosmetic quality control checks. Underneath the Picador headstock label is typically the Sigma or Martin logo. C.F. Martin...
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Heaven
Heaven Guitars are made by Alex who studied at the Newark Luthiery School before establishing his own workshop in 2009 in Yvelines, Fance. Alex makes electric, acoustic and bass guitars.Source: Heaven...
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Willcox
Christopher Willcox started out as an apprentice luthier in the early 1970s in New Jersey. He moved to California in 1976 and opened his own guitar workshop in 1980. In 1988 he made the first prototype...
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Neubauer
Andreas Neubauer is a master luthier from Vienna who has been building custom instruments since 1987. Each Neubauer guitar is custom made and hand crafted. Neubauer collaborated with Michael Spalt to...
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Sanox
Sanox was a brand name of the SSSound Company Ltd of Aichi, Japan. Sanox guitars and basses were made from the late 1970s until the mid 1980s.Source: Logabass by Sanox catalog, 1980s
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Lindberg
Lindberg was the house brand of the Ernst Lindberg music shop in Munich, founded in 1924, Germany. Lindberg also had a mail order catalog in the 1950s and 1960s and produced and sold various musical...
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Cargill
Merv Cargill founded Cargill Custom Guitars in 1956, following a violin making apprenticeship. Cargill ran his business from a backyard workshop in Seaford, Melbourne, but his reputation extended far...
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ALVAREZ YAIRI FY 40 (Carolina FOLK)
The Alvarez FY 40 (referred to in the catalogs as Satin Folk, Carolina Folk or Mahogany Folk) model was available from around 1976 until the early 1980s, and was part of the Bicentennial Folk Series....
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Sano
Sano was formed as an accordion company in 1951 in New Jersey by Nick Sano, an accordion player; Joe Zonfrilli, an electronics technician; and Lou Iorio (Zonfrilli's brother-in-law) a music teacher....
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Loco
Loco Amplifiers and LocoBox Effects were Aria brand names. The pedals were handmade (from the late 1970s onwards) by a small team in Urawa, in Saitama, Japan who sold their pedals to Aria, Although...
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GIBSON LES PAUL CLASSIC (LPCS)
The Gibson Les Paul Classic was introduced in 1990 as a reissue based on the 1960 Les Paul. The key feature of the Classic was it's slim neck profile. The Les Paul Classic also had some other features...
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Live Wires
Live Wires was a brand of the Musical Instrument Corporation of America (Syosset, New York), who distributed Japanese made Live Wires guitars in the 1970s. Live Wires guitars were copies of Gibson and...
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Lyle
Lyle acoustic and electric guitars were made in Japan in the 1970s and distributed in the USA by L.D. Heater Music Company (Seattle) and Musical Instrument Corporation of America (Syossett, NY)Source:...
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