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Morales y Morales
The Morales brothers were guitar makers in Almeria, Spain until at least the early 1960s. Their labels have "Sucesores de D. Antonio Torres" - but Torres was before their time and the link to the...
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Martin Fleeson
Martin Fleeson was an English classical guitar maker who died in 1986. Fleeson was a successful maker and highly regarded in England in the 1970s and 1980s - John Williams played a Martin Fleeson...
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Calabert classical guitars were made in Spain and sold at Ivor Mairants Musicentre in Rathbone Place, London. I have seen them advertised in 1970s UK Guitar magazines. Probably made in Valencia by...
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Rafael Morales (1910-1974) was a flamenco and classical guitar maker in Granada, Spain.
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Isidro Garrido
Isidro Garrido (born 1922) is a Spanish flamenco and classical guitar maker of Granada, although less well known than others of that school such as Antonio Marín Montero or Manuel de la Chica. His...
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Shiro Yoshima was a relatively affordable Japanese made classical guitar brand sold in the early 1970s by the Spanish Guitar Centre at 36 Cranbourn Street, London. In 1973 prices ranged from £12 to £60...
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Dallas
Dallas was a UK musical instrument manufacturing and distribution company, founded by John E. Dallas. Dallas began making banjos in 1873, eventually moving to premises at 415 Strand. In 1905-1906...
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Gary Southwell
Gary Southwell studied Guitar Making at The London College of Furniture after which in 1983 he set up his first workshop in Nottingham. At first he specialised in making historical guitars of the early...
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S Sgroi Silvestri
The history of the Sgroi Silvestri company dates back to the late 19th century when Santi Sgroi, born in Catania in 1870, married Ermelinda Delfina Maria Silvestri, a luthier born near Modena in 1878....
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Luis Arostegui Granados
Luis Arostegui Granados is a Spanish guitar maker who born in Granada in 1932. He initially worked as a cabinet maker in the 1950s and around the same time started making guitars. He did not apprentice...
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Jeronimo Pena Fernandez
Jeronimo Peña Fernandez, born in 1933 in Marmolejo, Spain, is a renowned guitar maker with a background in ornamental carving and carpentry. He began building guitars in the 1950s and has since made...
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Sevilla
Sevilla was a Spanish made classical guitar brand of Barnes and Mullins sold in the UK in the 1970s. The label features the famous Giralda tower, the symbol of Seville.
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Manuel Guillena
Manuel Guillena is a maker of flamenco and classical guitars in Arahal, Seville, Spain. By 2019 he had made around 150 guitars.
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