D'Addario
The D'Addario brand is best known for its range of instrument strings and Planet Waves guitar accessories - but it also produces percussion and woodwind accessories. The D'Addario company was founded...
View ArticleGallien-Krueger
Robert Gallien is a Stanford educated engineer who first began making amplifiers in the late 1960s, while working a day job at Hewlett Packard in California. These first amplifiers had the GMT brand...
View ArticleAEolian Guitars
Paul McNamara builds one off guitars under the AEolian Guitars brandname. Each one is made from scratch, combining only the best lumbers for tops, multi-laminate necks & bodies,and using a single...
View ArticleAFJ
AFJ Custom Guitars is the brand name of Antonio Fayos Jover, a builder of custom guitars, who also repairs guitars and basses.
View ArticleAguilera
Paul Aguilera is a maker of all types of fretted stringed instruments. He studied guitar making in 1995 with Jeff Chapman in Brighton learning the basics of guitar making and learning modern instrument...
View ArticleAirline
Airline Guitars were originally made in the USA from 1958-68 by VALCO in Chicago and sold through Montgomery Ward. Valco merged with Kay in the 1960s but soon went out of business and the Airline brand...
View ArticleA.C. Fairbanks
A.C. Fairbanks and William E Cole established the Fairbanks & Cole musical instrument workshop in Beach Street, Boston in 1880 to make guitars, banjos and mandolins. William's brother Frank Cole...
View ArticleAnimals Pedal
Animals Pedal is a Japanese guitar effects pedal brand distributed by LEP International Company.Source: Animals Pedal website (18 February 2024)
View ArticleHosa
Hosa Technology was established in 1984 by Sho Sato in the U.S. with a vision to provide high-quality audio and video connectivity solutions. The company emphasizes creating reliable products with...
View ArticleROSS Electronics
ROSS Electronics, founded in 1977 by Charles "Bud" Ross (1940 - 2018), evolved from Kustom Amplification (founded in 1964), famous for its distinctive "tuck-and-roll" Naugahyde covered amplifiers....
View ArticlePro Co
Pro Co Sound is a Michigan Corporation founded by Charlie Wicks in 1974. Pro Co builds audio cables and related products for Musical Instrument retailers (stores, catalog retailers and distributors)...
View ArticleDSM & Humboldt
DSM & Humboldt was founded in 2019 in Chile by Jano Acevedo and Daniel Schwartz. They became well known for their Simplifier Zero Watt Amp and Cab Sim Pedal.Source: DSM & Humboldt Electronics...
View ArticleMad 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)
View ArticleHeather Brown Electronicals
Heather Brown makes guitar effects pedals. She previously worked for Mike Matthews and Robert Keeley.
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