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Reverb.com is an online marketplace for new, used, and vintage musical equipment, including instruments used by notable musicians. [1] It was founded in 2013 by David Kalt, shortly after he purchased the musical instrument store Chicago Music Exchange and became frustrated with then-available options for buying and selling guitars online. [2]
Musikhaus Thomann is a German-based retailer of musical instruments, studio, lighting, and pro-audio equipment.Thomann became widely known primarily due to its large online retail operation, Thomann Cyberstore.
Harmony was, in its heyday, the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the United States. It made many types of string instruments, including ukuleles, acoustic and electric guitars and violins. The company ceased in 1975, with the "Harmony" brand being relaunched by BandLab in 2018 to produce electric guitars and amplifiers. [1]
The 44,000 square foot store more than tripled the size of the previous retail store location it replaced, [26] which also made it possible for Sweetwater to include Mynett Music's products and services within the new Sweetwater store. [27] Later the same year, Sweetwater began selling band and orchestra instruments and accessories. [28]
Guitar Center was founded in Hollywood in 1959 by Wayne Mitchell as The Organ Center, a retailer of electronic organs for home and church use. In 1964, after a supplier required him to carry Vox guitar amplifiers, to continue receiving organs, Mitchell added the amplifiers to his inventory and renamed the store The Vox Center, leveraging the Beatles association with the Vox brand.
Music stores range from full-line stores [2] that sell products across all musical instrument and even pro audio categories (sometimes including DJ equipment and visual stage components such as lights or fog machines), to music stores that focus on a subset of those categories (e.g. a store that sells acoustic and digital pianos, or a store ...
Gretsch was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a young German immigrant who opened his own musical instrument shop on 128 Middleton Street in Brooklyn, New York that year. His shop was designed for the manufacture of banjos, tambourines and drums, with the company experiencing some success catering to marching bands. [2]
A major player in the global vintage guitar market, Chicago Music Exchange took an active role in vintage guitar boom of the mid to late-2000s. The business and its inventory of instruments was purchased by David Kalt in 2010 for $7.5 million. [ 2 ]