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TAKAMINE EF-325SRC
The Takamine EF-325SRC was a dreadnought style acoustic, with single cutaway introduced in the early 1990s and made until around 2003. The top was solid spruce with DC-1 bracing and black and white...
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Pablo
Pablo was a brand name of Shino Musical Instrument Corporation, who sold high priced Japanese made Pablo and Sofia acoustic guitars in the 1970s.Their slogan was:High price yes! But Pablo and Sofia are...
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Richelieu
Richelieu guitars and basses were made in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1982 to 1984. The company was started by John Toth and Richard Syarto. Richelieu made custom neck-through-body Spectre guitars,...
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JAY TURSER
Jay Turser is a guitar manufacturer known for its affordability and owned by American Music & Sound. Jay Turser makes acoustic, electric, bass, and jazz guitars as well as amps.
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JAY TURSER JT-HORN
The Jay Turser JT-HORN was discontinued in 2001. It took its name from the elongated lower body horn. The JT-Horn had a Solid body; 24 fret maple neck with rosewood fretboard; 1 humbucking and 1...
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Paramount
The Paramount banjo brand was established in 1921 by William L. Lange. By the 1930s banjos were declining in popularity compared to guitars and Paramount comissioned Martin to make some Paramount tenor...
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RJP (Technologies)
RJP Technologies was founded by Ronnie J. Parker in the early 2000s. Parker had previously worked for Aria and has also designed instruments for Washburn and other companies. The mass production models...
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PBC (Guitar Technology)
PBC GUITAR TECHNOLOGY was founded by John Pearse, Dave Bunker, and Paul Chernay in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. PBC produced electric guitars, basses using Bunker's tension free neck design as well as...
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The Gibson Custom Line (CL) Series was an acoustic guitar range introduced in the 1990s and made in Bozeman, Montana. The CLs had a longer scale length than the typical Gibson acoustic guitar and were...
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Phifer
Sherwood T. "Woody" Phifer makes handcrafted electric, acoustic and bass guitars. His clients include: Ronny Jordan, Mos Def, Will Lee, Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke, Wyclef Jean, and George Benson....
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Penn (Pennino)
Penn was a ukulele and guitar brand name of the Pennino Music Company. Pennino Music was founded in Los Angeles, California by Jeanette Pennino Banoczi (1922 - 2017) and her first husband Humbert...
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Suhr
John Suhr founded JS Technologies Inc in 1997. Suhr started out doing repairs at Rudy's Music in New York. His first Suhr Custom guitar was made in 1984, before he teamed up with Rudy Pensa to make...
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Penzel
Walter Penzel (1896 - 1963) came from a family of cabinet makers in Wernitzgrün, Markneukirchen, Germany. Following World War II Penzel was detained as a captive of the Americans until July 1948 in...
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Fender - Born in the USA
This Fender advert from 1988 highlights some of the tweaks made to the design of the USA Standard Stratocaster in the 1980s - like a new design tremolo, TBX tone control and 9.5" radius fingerboard.
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Vestax
Vestax was a Japanese musical instrument, turntable and audio equipment firm founded by Hidesato Shiino in 1977 as part of his Shiino Musical Instrument Corporation. Previously Shiino had used the...
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Boss ME-5 - the ultimate treatment with no side effects!
This Boss advert from 1988 features its groundbreaking multi-effects ME-5 unit. The Boss ME-5 is a versatile effect device that includes five different effects, each with its own footswitch. Each of...
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Shadow SH-075 guitar to midi convertor
in the mid 1980s synthesizer music was hugely popular - think Harold Faltermeyer's Roland Jupiter-8 driven "Axel F". This drove a period of innovation for dedicated guitar based synth controllers,...
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Reflex Pickups - Heart and Soul
Reflex Reds pickups were introduced in 1988 - they were premium active pickups made in the UK. They were sold in sets along with a separate "black box" preamp which is essential to their correct...
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Shadow
Joe Marinic founded Shadow Electronics in 1971 in Erlangen, Germany as an electric guitar and pickup maker, but initially Joe decided to focus solely on pickups. Soon Shadow invented a ground breaking...
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