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Washburn Guitars is an American brand and importer of guitars, mandolins, and other string instruments, originally established in 1883 in Chicago, Illinois. The Washburn name is controlled by U.S. Music Corp. , a subsidiary of Canadian corporate group Exertis | JAM.
The Washburn N4 is an electric guitar model, developed in collaboration between Nuno Bettencourt, Washburn and the Seattle-based luthier Stephen Davies. Since its introduction in mid-late 1990, it became Bettencourt's primary guitar and it is marketed by Washburn as his signature model. The N4 is the flagship of the Washburn N-prefix guitar models.
This category is dedicated to electric guitar models produced by Washburn guitars. Pages in category "Washburn electric guitars" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Abbott's Washburn Dime 333, a signature guitar built in the style of a Dean ML. Dimebag's first guitar was a Hohner HG-430LP-S Les Paul, [10] and for his junior high school talent show he removed the neck pickup and inserted a smoke bomb so he could make the guitar smoke like his biggest musical influence Ace Frehley. [122]
There were at least 5 models in the RR-V series. The RR-2, RR-10V, RR-11, RR-12, and RR-40 (the latter being the top-of-the-line model). All models featured a Floyd Rose Tremolo styled-bridge (called the 'Wonderbar Tremolo') and had a pickup configuration of one Humbucker at the bridge and two single-coils at the neck.
On December 15, 2002, Washburn International announced it had acquired distributor U.S. Music Corporation [3] and would be rolling its assets into USM in a reverse merger. [ 4 ] In mid-2009, U.S. Music was purchased by Jam Industries of Montreal, Canada .
Washburn was a brand owned by Lyon & Healy; the current Washburn organization has little in common with the original beyond ownership of the brand name. There's a lot of interesting guitar and music-biz history around the Washburn brand--certainly more significant than which rocker has a promotion deal with the current trademark owners.
"Suicide Note Pt. I" features 12-string acoustic guitars, keyboards, and bass drum beats in the style of a heartbeat. Guitarist Dimebag Darrell told Guitar World magazine in 1996 that he wrote all the guitar parts of the song the first time he picked up a 12-string guitar that Washburn Guitars had sent him in recognition of his new endorsement of the company.