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Carvin's Legacy 3 amplifier above a speaker cabinet with Ibanez JEM guitar, used by Steve Vai 1984 Carvin X60 Amp. Founded by Lowel C Kiesel as the L.C. Kiesel Company, in 1946 in San Diego, California. [4] The company's first self-manufactured items were guitar pickups, which were wound using an old sewing machine. [5]
In 2017, Rogers expanded Dave's La Crosse location and Coalition Drum Shop relocated within the expanded store. [3] [4] The store in La Crosse now carries an inventory of over 3,000 guitars. In 2017, the company opened a second retail location in Milwaukee, carrying over 400 guitars and specializing in guitar repair. In October 2019, the ...
Taylor Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer based in El Cajon, California. The company was founded in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug and specializes in acoustic guitars and semi-hollow electric guitars. It is one of the largest manufacturers of acoustic guitars in the United States [4] and sells guitars in 65 countries around the ...
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.
Mesa/Boogie (also known as Mesa Engineering) is an American company in Petaluma, California, that manufactures amplifiers and other accessories for guitars and basses. It has been in operation since 1969. Mesa was started by Randall Smith as a small repair shop which modified Fender amplifiers, particularly the diminutive Fender Princeton ...
Sam Ash Music was founded in 1924, and was the largest family-owned chain of musical instrument stores in the United States, with 45 locations in 16 states. [3] [4] With corporate headquarters in Hicksville, New York, Sam Ash sold musical instruments, recording equipment, DJ and lighting equipment, and professional sound.
Mike McGuire and Al Carness founded the company in the mid-1970s in North Hollywood, California, a district of Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley; the name "Valley Arts" is a reference to the firm's original location. Partners in a music store and repair shop, their repairs and customizations gained the attention of Los Angeles ...
Specializing in fretted instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles, Elderly maintains a selection of odd or rare instruments. Elderly is known as a premier repair shop for fretted instruments, as one of the larger vintage instrument dealers in the United States, and as a major dealer of Martin guitars ...