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Guitar manufacturing can also be broken into several categories such as body manufacturing and neck manufacturing, among others. Guitar manufacturing includes the production of alto, classical, tenor, and bass tuned guitars (with classical being the most widely used tuning). A luthier is a person who builds or repairs string instruments. [1]
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The "Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co, Ltd." was established in 1902. [107] This building, said to be infested with cockroaches, was probably the former Witmer Bakery. [109] 114 East Exchange Place, Kalamazoo, MI 1906–1911 Located quite close to the previous location, in Kalamazoo's business district. [110]
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] Guyatone also produced guitars sold by other brands including Ibanez and ...
Oscar Schmidt was a musical instrument manufacturing company established in 1871. During its long existence, Oscar Schmidt has produced a wide range of string instruments, not only guitars but also numerous models of parlour instruments such as autoharps, celtic harps, guitar zithers, the "guitarophone" (a zither/metal-disc playing hybrid), [3] marxophones [4] and bowed psalteries (or "ukelins").
C.F. Martin & Company (often referred to as Martin) is an American guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin. [1] It is highly respected for its acoustic guitars and is a leading manufacturer of flat top guitars and ukuleles.
Levin was a Swedish manufacturer of musical instruments founded by Herman Carlson Levin. Active from 1900 to 1978, the company produced over half a million instruments, mostly guitars, but also mandolins, banjos and lutes, making Levin the largest instrument manufacturer in Scandinavia for many years.
A stateside manufacturing operation was opened in 1991 for higher-end, short-run, and one-off instruments, as well as development and prototyping. That year, a Chicago Tribune article [11] confidently places Washburn "among the top three guitar manufacturers in the world," behind only Fender and Gibson.