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McKinney
The McKinney School of Music in Peoria, Illinois sold McKinney branded acoustic and electric lap steel guitars and amplifiers made by Valco in the 1940s and 1950s. Often these were sold as a matched...
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Music Drive
Music Drive (MD) guitars and basses were made in Korea by Sumer Musical Instruments Company Limited, from around 2000.Source: Music Drive catalog 2000.
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Andersen (Brad)
Custom classical guitar maker based in Old Town Albuquerque NM, USA. Also makes steel string guitars and ukeleles.
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VALCO
The Valco Manufacturing Company was established in the 1930s by the former owners of the National Dobro Company; Victor Smith, Al Frost, and Louis Dopyera. The company name was a combination of their...
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Prince (Tsushinkogyo)
Prince Tsushinkogyo Co. Ltd. (Prince Telecommunication and Engineering) was founded in 1950 in Nagoya, Japan. They concentrated on making tuners and solid state musical instrument amplifiers which...
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Merson
Merson was a distribution company founded by Bernie Mersky in the 1940s in New York. Merson archtop electric guitars and amplifiers first went on sale in the late 1940s under the Tempo brand name. By...
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WESTBURY
Westbury was a guitar brand name of the Unicord company, from the 1970s to the early 1980s. The Westbury brandname comes from the location of the original Unicord American distribution center in...
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Tempo
Tempo was a brand name of Merson of New York City, who advertised the first Tempo archtop electric guitar in 1948 with a matching Tempo amplifier. Merson was taken over by (or merged with) Unicord in...
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Unicord
The Unicord company was a transformer manufacturer that bought the Amplifier Corporation of America in Westbury, New York in the early 1960s and began selling Univox branded tube amplifiers. Unicord...
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Kanda Shokai
Kanda Shokai Company Limited is a Japanese musical instrument distributor established in 1948. They manage mainly Japanese brands but also instruments made outside Japan and sell wholesale to retailers...
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Musicraft
Musicraft was a San Francisco company established around 1967 by Bert Casey (President) and Arnold Curtis (Senior Vice-President). They introduced the Messenger range of guitars and amplifiers, built...
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Miami
Miami ukuleles and tiples were distributed by Henry Stadlmair of New York from the mid to late 1920s. Stadlmair was the East Coast distributor of Hermann Weissenborn. Weissenborn is said to have made...
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Stadlmair
Henry Stadlmair Company Inc. was a New York distributor of musical instruments from 1923 to around 1928. In the 1870s Henry Stadlmair began working with C Bruno and Sons, by 1914 he had risen to the...
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Mule
Mule resophonic and electric guitars are made by Matt Eich. Eich previously worked for Huss and Dalton before starting Mule.Source: Mule Resophonic Guitars website (13 May 2018)
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Darkmoon
Darkmoon Pickups has been established in 2010 by the current master winder and owner Mark V. For the first six years the company released products solely for independent guitar builders and luthiers....
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Michaud Made
Joel Michaud makes exceptional steel stringed acoustic guitars in Calgary, Alberta.Source: Michaud Made website (18 May 2018)
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Migma
Migma is a musical instrument makers cooperative based in Markneukirchen who have been selling bowed, fretted instruments, and wind instruments (plus accessories and components) since 1943. It became...
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Alan Miller
Alan Miller has been making stringed instruments in the UK since the late 1970s. Most of his work is acoustic and electric guitars but he also makes bespoke instruments including: citterns, bowed or...
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Milburn
Orville and Robert Milburn are a father and son guitar classical guitar making team in Sweet Home in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. They began making guitars in 1989. Initially they were self taught...
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Lady Luck
Lady Luck was a brand name of Lady Luck Industries of Cary, IL, a musical instrument distributor founded by Terresa Ann Miller (1949 - 2017). Miller was previously an import manager for a musical...
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