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This category includes companies that manufacture guitars and/or guitar accessories. Companies that manufacture guitar amplifiers should be listed in Guitar amplifier manufacturers. Companies that make effects units for guitars should be listed in Guitar effects manufacturing companies.
By the early 1970s, Matsumoku had begun using CNC (computer numerical controlled) mills, routers, and lathes, one of the first guitar makers to do so. This created a significant economy of scale, allowing the company to rely upon factory automation rather than skilled labor for rough shaping of components and basic assembly tasks.
Guyatone was founded by Mitsuo Matsuki in 1933. The company produced its first solid body electric guitars, copies of Les Paul model, in 1955. Within a few years they were exporting these guitars under their own brand as well as others such as Star and Antoria. These guitars proved popular, particularly in the U.K. [8]
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals , which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers .
Alvarez is a guitar brand founded in 1965 by the owner and distributor St. Louis Music. [1] Alvarez manufactures steel-strings, classical guitars, ukuleles and, for a time, solid and hollow-body electric guitars and basses.
The company name was a combination of the three partner's first initials (V.A.L.) plus the common abbreviation for company (Co.) Valco manufactured and sold electric (since the 1950s), [3] resonator, [3] lap steel [3] and classical [4] guitars and vacuum tube amplifiers under a variety of brand names including Supro, Airline, National and Oahu. [1]