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The Jackson Soloist is an electric guitar model introduced by Jackson Guitars in 1984, although prototypes were available before then. The design is a typical "superstrat"; it varies from a typical Stratocaster because of its neck-thru design; tremolo: Floyd Rose or similar, Kahler; or a fixed Tune-O-Matic; premium woods; a deeper cutaway at the lower horn for better access to the higher frets ...
The company was started in 1984 by Tom Anderson, who is regarded as "one of the most respected names in the […] custom guitar market." [ 1 ] They manufacture about 1200 instruments per year and have a reputation for "consistently high build quality, superb playability and innovative tones."
Many sources cite Grover Jackson as one of the first (and most influential) guitar makers to have crafted custom shop guitars with all the features of superstrats, doing so as early as 1981. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Later all these improvements were integrated in the factory-produced Jackson Soloist model.
The two parted ways in March 1991 [3] when Suhr left Pensa's workshops to work for Fender as a Senior Master Builder at the Californian company's Custom Shop and established JS Technologies, Inc. with partner Steve Smith in 1997. The name Suhr was dropped from the brand name after one year for guitars subsequently built under Pensa's stewardship.
This list of guitarists includes notable musicians, known principally for their guitar playing, for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Those who are known mainly as bass guitarists are listed separately at List of bass guitarists .
Scholz Research & Development, Inc. was the name of the company founded by musician and engineer Tom Scholz to design and manufacture music technology products. Scholz is an MIT-trained engineer who developed many of his skills as a product design engineer working on audio-production equipment at Polaroid in the early 1970s.
D'Aquisto flat top guitars are a group of sixteen guitars [10] made by D'Aquisto. He made sixteen flat top guitars from 1973 to 1984. [10] He made two types, a grand auditorium and a dreadnought. [11] He believed the large oval sound hole produced greater projection than the typical round sound hole. [12] He numbered his guitars from 101 to 116 ...
Name Born Country Abel Carlevaro: 1916–2001: Uruguay Agustín Barrios Mangoré: 1885–1944: Paraguay Alexandre Lagoya: 1929–1999: France Alirio Díaz: 1923–2016