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Tanglewood Guitars is an English manufacturer of stringed instruments, including electric, steel-string acoustic and classical guitars, bass guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, and guitar amplifiers. [1] Instruments are designed in the United Kingdom [2] and manufactured in China. [3]
The Regal Musical Instrument Company is a former US musical instruments company and current brand owned by Saga Musical Instruments.Regal was one of the largest manufacturers in the 1930s and became known for a wide range of resonator stringed instruments, including guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles.
The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar. As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms. Most common is a carved-top eight-string instrument fitted with an electric pickup in similar fashion to many archtop semi-acoustic guitars.
Electric guitar; Flamenco guitar; Guitalele; Harp guitar; Nine-string guitar; Octave guitar; Dobro; Seven-string guitar; Tailed bridge guitar; Tenor guitar; Ten-string guitar; Twelve-string guitar; Guitaro; Guitarrón argentino (Argentina) Guitarrón mexicano (Mexico) Guitarrón chileno (Chile) Guqin (China) Gusli (Russia) Guzheng (China) Harp ...
A solid-body electric mandolin. As with almost every other contemporary chordophone, another modern variant is the electric mandolin. These mandolins can have four or five individual or double courses of strings. They were developed in the early 1930s, contemporaneous with the development of the electric guitar.
Italian mandolin virtuoso and child prodigy Giuseppe Pettine (here pictured in 1898) brought the Italian playing style to America where he settled in Providence, Rhode Island, as a mandolin teacher and composer. Pettine is credited with promoting a style where "one player plays both the rhythmic chords and the lyric melodic line at once ...
Kay's archtop electric guitars in 1961: (L to R) Swing Master K673, K672, [18] Truetone Jazz King [1] After the retirement of Kuhrmeyer in 1955, the company was taken over by Sidney M. Katz. The product line of Kay was shifted toward electric musical instruments on demands, and in 1964, the company moved to a new factory in Elk Grove Village ...
Bill Griffin playing the mandolele, 2012. Bill Griffin is widely known as a musician in both bluegrass and Hawaiian music genres. A luthier and veteran mandolinist, he is also the inventor of the "mandolele", which is a nylon-stringed mandolin that he first crafted in 1986.