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VanderMeij
Koen van der Meij founded VanderMeij Guitars in 2013 after years of playing guitar and graduating in woodworking and furniture making. Since 2015, he has been crafting his instruments in his workshop...
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Mr Peters
Peter P. Sceusa filed a patent for a guitar neck in 1961 (granted in 1963). Sceusa's neck had an asymmetric profile that was designed to fit the natural arch of the player's hand. Rickenbacker licensed...
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Lindemere
In the 1970s Ken Lindemere established a music store with Joe Sallay in Vancouver which grew to be one of the biggest in the city. In 1977 they teamed up with Attila Balogh to found Odyssey Guitars....
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Odyssey
Odyssey Guitars was founded in Vancouver by Ken Lindemere, Joe Sallay, and Attila Balogh. Ken and Joe had a retail music store in Vancouver and Attila ran a guitar repair shop. Ken & Joe used...
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Claas
Alexander Claas makes high end electric guitars and basses in Burgdorf near Hanover, Germany. Claas was a professional furniture maker who turned his interest in instrument making into a full time...
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Mohawk
Mohawk was a Francis Day and Hunter (FDH) brand name used for lap-steel guitars and banjos sold in the UK in the 1950s. These instruments were made in England. The origin of the Mohawk brand name most...
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Barbero
Marcelo Barbero was born in 1904, he went to work for Jose Ramirez and later Jose Ramirez II and by the 1930s was making guitars under his own name. When Santos Hernandez died in 1943, Barbero was...
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Monroe
Monroe electric guitars and basses were made in El Paso, Texas in the late 1980s.Source: Monroe Guitars catalog 1989
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Mojo (pickups)
Marc Ransley established Mojo Pickups in 2010. Its a one man operation where Marc hand winds custom pickups one at a time in Calderdale in the UK.Source: Mojo Pickups website (11 June 2018)
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Ibanez RS924
The Ibanez RS924 was a Roadster Series bass introduced around 1981. The RS924 had an ash body with three-piece maple neck & fretboard. The pickups were Ibanez Super P4, Super J4 and controls were...
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Kitty Hawk
Kitty Hawk was a German Amplifier company. Kitty Hawk Amps were available in the 1980s and 1990s and were distributed in the USA by LPMG (Latin Percussion). While these were good sounding amps, by the...
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Moreschi
Moreschi was founded by Giuseppe Moreschi in 1910 when he began making accordions in his basement in Castelfidarfo, Italy. By the 1940s the company became Moreschi & Figli (Moreschi & Sons),...
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Weber
Weber Fine Acoustic Instruments originated in 1997 in Bozeman, Montana when Bruce Weber, Joe Schneider, Bob McMurray, Steve Birch and Paula Lewis established the Sound to Earth shop in Bruce's barn....
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Flatiron
The Flatiron mandolin brand originated in 1975 when Charles (Chuck) F. Morrison dropped out of University in Boulder, Colorado to start building mandolins. He rented space for workshops on Pearl...
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GV guitars
Get (Norbert Szabó) and Vamp (Imrich Kamocsai), are the founders of GV guitars. In 2016 Ivan Imhof (from Budapest) joined to the team to collaborate in design and some woodworking.Main activity is to...
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GUILD X-79 (SKYHAWK)
The X-79 SKYHAWK was made between 1981 and 1985. The Guild X-79 had a futuristic asymmetrical mahogany body with set mahogany neck. Pickups were two Guild XR-7 humbuckers controlled by two volume, one...
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CFOX
CFOX was a brand name used by luthier Charles Fox in the 1990s and 2000s for preimuim grade handmade acoustic guitars. Between 1997 and 2001 CFox was a corporate subsidiary of a major musical...
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Farfisa
Farfisa is an Italian electronics company established in 1946. Farfisa is best known for its organs made from the 1960s until the 1980s but they also produced guitar amplifiers and effects. Farfisa...
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Pulcinella (MPG)
Matt Pulcinella was an active bass and guitar player in the early 1990s Philadelphia and Delaware live music scene who worked as a graphic designer by day. In the mid 1990s he started restoring and hot...
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