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Ellis (Tom)
Tom Ellis of Ellis Mandolins, builds one of a kind, hand made mandolins in Austin, Texas. Ellis has been making mandolins since 1977, when he opened a workshop in Austin. Business was boosted in 1981...
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Oni
Oni was started in 2005 by Daniel Memory, who had around ten years experience of repair work at that point. The first Oni instruments were extended range 7 and 8 string electric guitars. In 2012 the...
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Star Fire
StarFire was a budget guitar brand of EKS Technology (Nagoya, Japan) for electric and bass guitars. More recently the StarFire brand has been used for budget acoustic guitars made in China by the...
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Ormsby
Multi award winning luthier, Perry Ormsby, has been manufacturing his custom hand-made instruments in Perth since 2003. Located in Beaconsfield, just south of sunny Fremantle, Ormsby Guitars is a local...
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Washburn A-20
Introduced in the early 1980s Washburn Stage A-20 had a truncated explorer style body shape with neck through body construction. These were Japanese made (Matsumoku) with good specs like an ebony...
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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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Orion
Orion was a stringed instrument brand distributed by Vega Music International, Brea, California and by Galaxy Trading Corporation of Sante Fe Springs, California. There was a full range of Orion...
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Linear
Linear Products Limited was founded in the early 1960s in the Electron Works building in Armley, Leeds, UK. Linear made amplifiers that were sold through the R.S.C. chain of shops, as well as direct to...
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WEM
Watkins Electric Music (WEM) is a British company founded in 1949 by Charlie Watkins and his brother Reg. WEM started as a record shop in Tooting Market, London, later moving to a small shop in Balham...
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Osborne (Guitar Co. & Sound Labs)
The Osborne guitar Company was established in the mid 1970s by jazz guitarist Mary Osborne and her husband Ralph Scaffidi, a jazz trumpeter. Scaffidi had previously worked as a sales rep for Mosrite...
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SIGMA D-10
In 1980, to celebrate their tenth year, Sigma guitars introduced the limited edition D-10 Anniversary model. The D-10 anniversary model combines features such as: Natural select solid spruce top...
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Ostrizek
Anton Ostrizek was born in 1889 in Brno in the Czech Republic where he trained with luthier František Trávníček from 1904 to 1909. He then left for Vienna, Austria where he worked at Viktor...
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Otwin
Otwin was established in 1886 in Shilbach, Germany by Franz Otto Windisch (born in 1866). Franz Otto Windisch had previously apprenticed as a violin maker and worked in Markneukirchen for Gläsel &...
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Gorilla
Gorilla was a budget amplifier brand in the 1980s onwards. For many guitarists a low powered, solid state, Tawainese made Gorilla was their first amplifier. When Howard Chatt bought the Pignose Amps...
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Overwater
Overwater Basses had its origins in a cellar workshop in Denmark Street, London in 1977 where Chris May and business partner Andy Preston made and repaired guitars and basses. Overwater was officially...
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P-Project
Fernandes made P-Project guitars and basses from 1992 onwards. Models included the nylon stringed electro-acoustic AI-N model as played by Dominic Miller.Source: P-Project catalog 1998Source: Fernandes...
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P-PROJECT AI-N
The Fernandes P-Project was a slimline nylon stringed electro-acoustic guitar with a hollow telecaster style body, with a spruce top and mahogany back. The volume control was bridge mounted and the...
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Guild S-300 ad 1977
In 1977 Guild introduced a new range of solid body guitars and basses - the S & B series. This advert introduces the S-300 guitar.
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Bozo
Bozo Podunavac was born and raised in Yugoslavia, in what is now Serbia. In his early years he served a 5-year apprenticeship in making and repairing stringed instruments with master luthier Milutin...
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