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Eastwood Guitars is a manufacturer of stringed instruments. The company specializes in making vintage-style instruments including electric guitars , basses , electric mandolins , resonator guitars , lap steels , tenor guitars , and ukuleles .
Collings D Series guitars are often employed by bluegrass flat pickers who must compete with inherently louder instruments such as banjos and fiddles. [5] OM Series: The 'OM' (Orchestra Model) is a 14-fret model that is popular with fingerstyle guitar soloists who choose to play on steel strings. The OM is also used in flatpicking.
They produced a variety of stringed instruments: guitars, banjoes, mandolins, ukuleles and even violins. Many of these were sold under the Kasuga brand. Kasuga was one of the first Japanese companies to begin producing and selling copies of guitars from the big US brands, primarily those from Gibson but also Fender, starting in 1972. [11]
A mandolin (Italian: mandolino, pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]
Instruments of the mandolin family are popular in Japan, particularly Neapolitan (round-back) style instruments, and Roman-Embergher style mandolins are still being made there. [50] Japan became seriously interested in mandolins at the beginning of the 20th century during a process of becoming westernized. [51]
The William S. Haynes Flute Company is an American flute-manufacturing company, established in 1888 by William S. Haynes and George W. Haynes. Originating in Boston, the company has since relocated its main workshop to Acton, Massachusetts.
Miraphone, a German manufacturer of tenor and low brass instruments. Sterling Instruments, a British manufacturer of tenor brass. Taishan, a Chinese manufacturer of brass instruments (Shan Dong Taishan). Weril Instrumentos Musicais, one of the most traditional brass manufacturers in the world, an Austrian family stablished in Brazil in 1909.