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Lisha
Lisha Guitar Company (Nashville, TN) made acoustic guitars, but there is very little information about this brand. Lisha also offered instrument repair for guitars, banjos and fiddles. Their company...
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Lowden GL-10
The Lowden GL-10 was introduced in 2018, around forty years on from when George Lowden first built an electric guitar, George Lowden said: “My interest was revived through a request from an artist in...
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Milsom
Francis Milsom made his first acoustic guitar in 1971 during his wood machining apprenticeship. Several guitars later, in 1975 he changed direction to work as a technical and forensic photographer. In...
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AHED
The AHED company was established in the early 1970s when Phil Anderson amalgamated the various divisions of Arc Sound Company into one corporation called AHED Music Corporation Ltd. (Arc Home...
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Magenta
Magenta was the guitar brand name of the Canadian AHED company - active from the 1970s until 1986.Source: Magenta catalog 1973
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EPIPHONE SPECIAL (American Series)
The Epiphone Special (American Series) was an SG style electric made in the Kalamazoo factory from 1982 to 1983. The Epiphone Special came with either one pickup (the Special I model) or two pickups...
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Kawakami
Yusuke Kawakami's introduction to the world of guitar making came from his family. His Uncle owned a world-renowned guitar building company in Gifu, Japan where his father was the chief luthier until...
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Badass
The Leo Quan "Badass" bridge was developed in 1972 by Glen Quan, musician, collector of fine instruments, guitar repairman and stringed instrument restorer. Glen saw a need for a tunable bridge for his...
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Mardan
Mardan was a brand owned by the C.G. Conn Corporation (Continental Music) which was used until the 1980s. The name was conceived by Dan Henkin and was a combination of Dan and his wife Mary's first...
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Marina
Marina is part of the Chinese group Grand Reward Education and Entertainment (GREE) which has been making guitars under OEM licence for other brand names since 1995. Their factory in Guang Dong...
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B.C. RICH MB 1 (MASON BERNARD)
B.C. RICH made the MB 1 (Mason Bernard) between 1990 -1992 and again 1998 and 1999. The MB 1 was an Assasin Series superstrat with, bolt-on maple neck and ebony fingerboard. Pickups were Seymour...
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GEORGE BREED ELECTRICAL GUITAR
George Breeds electrical guitar is not an electric guitar in the modern sense. It did not electrically amplify the strings to make them louder. Instead it used electricity to sound the strings of an...
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Marlboro
Marlboro Sound Works was a brand name of Musical Instrument Corporation of America (Syosset, New York) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These budget solid state amplifiers were often distributed...
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MARLIN
Marlin was a guitar brand used in 1975 by the Eaton's mail order catalog in Canada.The Marlin brand was later used by British Music Strings Ltd in the 1980s on a range of Korean made electrics and...
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Marvel
Marvel was a brand name of the Sorkin Music Company, an amplifier manufacturer and mail-order instrument distributor. The company was founded by Peter Sorkin in 1938 in New York City, and also made...
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Marveltone
Marveltone was a brand name of Targ & Dinner a wholesale instrument distributer from Chicago, used from 1926 until the early 1990s. Up to the 1960s Marveltone acoustic guitars would have been made...
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Maguire
Rick Maguire founded Maguire Guitars in 1987 in Rhode Island. Maguire makes high end solid body and semi-hollow bodied electric guitars by hand in his South Kingstown workshop.Source: Maguire Guitars...
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Mahaffay
Tris Mahaffay founded Songworks (now Mahaffay Amplifiers) Systems and Products in 1990- as a home based business to design and test various musical instrument devices he wanted to market. He joined...
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Mad Professor
Mad Professor Amplification Ltd is a Finnish manufacturer of amplifiers and guitar effects pedals established in 2002.Source: Mad Professor Amplification website (22 February 2018)
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Walla Walla
The Walla Walla Guitar Company is run by Terry Martin and Ken Melhus in Walla Walla, Washington. Terry and Ken have a combined 75 years of designing, building and playing guitars. They have been making...
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