Musical instrument company

Heritage Guitars is a guitar manufacturer in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Heritage Guitars was founded in 1985 by ex-employees of the Gibson guitar factory. In 1984, Gibson moved production from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nashville, Tennessee. Some of the employees that did not want to move started production of guitars under a new name. The company set up their factory in Gibson's former Kalamazoo premises. Heritage is a boutique manufacturer, making semi-hollow guitars, large jazz boxes, solidbody...

Rodgers Instruments LLC manufactures church organs, using patented stereophonic digital organ technology. The company's installed product base ranges from pipe organ and electronic organ of all sizes, to pipe combination organs combining both technologies, which Rodgers pioneered and remains the market leader. Rodgers was founded in 1958 by Rodgers W. Jenkins and Fred Tinker, employees of Tektronix, Inc., of Portland, Oregon and members of a Tektronix team developing transistor-based oscillator...

Arp Schnitger (born 1648-07-02 in Schmalenfleth, buried 1719-07-28) was a highly influential German master organ builder. He was primarily active in Northern Europe, especially the Netherlands and Germany, where a number of his instruments survive to the present day. Notable examples still in use include the organ at St. Pancratius Church, Hamburg-Neuenfelde, originally completed in 1688, his largest two-manual instrument. Organs like this are credited with inspiring the renaissance in organ...

Fodera is a noted American manufacturer of electric bass guitars. Fodera Basses are made in the Fodera Shop in Brooklyn, New York. Vinnie Fodera and Joey Lauricella started their own company around 1983 after dissolving their working relationship with Ken Smith basses. Fodera basses are known for extremely good craftsmanship, use of exotic woods and natural finishes, exclusively handmade instruments, and innovative pickup systems. Fodera, while not being famous for guitars, do produce a limited...

Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. (usually abbreviated to EMS) is a synthesizer company formed in 1969 by Dr. Peter Zinovieff. The company created the VCS 3 the same year. The synthesizer was developed in the basement of Zinovieff's London house. EMS synthesizers and London studios were used by artists such as Pink Floyd (Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here), BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Brian Eno and Roxy Music, Tangerine Dream (all early albums),...

The Ovation Guitar Company, a holding of Kaman Music Corporation, is a guitar manufacturing company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA. Ovation primarily manufactures acoustic guitars. Ovation guitars are differentiated by their composite synthetic bowl, rather than the traditional wooden back and sides of the modern acoustic guitar as produced by luthier starting in the late 18th century. Ovation has also produced solid body electric guitar. A lower-priced version of the bowl-back Ovation...

UFIP is an Italian cymbal manufacturer, producing mainly high-quality bell bronze cymbals using rotocasting. They are the only major cymbal manufacturer to use rotocasting. The most known handmade and "earcreated" Ufip cymbals are the Class Series, followed by Rough series, Bionic Series, Brilliant series and Natural. They are known for being normally high pitched and for their great adaptability to all musical genres and styles.

Mosrite was an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the mid 1990s. Founded by Semie Moseley, Mosrite guitars were played by many rock and roll and country artists such as Tommy Tedesco, Kurt Cobain, Joe Maphis, Larry Collins, Buck Trent, Nick Mccarthy, The Ventures, the MC5, Iron Butterfly, Arthur Lee and Love, Johnny Ramone and Kevin Shields. A friend of Moseley, a singing preacher named Rev. Ray Boatright, was deeply impressed with...

Hagström [Ha:gstrøm], or Hagstrom as the name is sometimes spelled, is a musical instrument manufacturer in Älvdalen, Dalarna County, Sweden. Their original products were accordion that they initially imported from Germany and then Italy before opening their own facility in 1932. During the sixties, the company started making electric guitars and later amplifier. The early guitars were heavily influenced by the accordion production and had a special look and feel. Many contemporary artists,...

The American Drum Manufacturing Company is a family-owned timpani manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado. Former Denver Symphony Orchestra timpanist Walter Light, who built a custom set of drums for himself, founded the company in 1950 when his colleagues began asking him to build timpani for them. The company offers four lines of instruments: The company also builds cases and covers for their drums and reconditions old timpani. Since every drum is custom-built, the buyer may choose from...

Conn-Selmer, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of concert band, marching band, and orchestra instruments. It is a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. and was formed after Steinway bought musical instrument manufacturers The Selmer Company and C.G. Conn. The employees at their Vincent Bach facility in Elkhart, Indiana represented by United Auto Workers Local 364 have been on strike for almost two years now, but it has yet to cause any production problems. Conn-Selmer is the...

Premier Percussion Limited is an English manufacturer of drum and percussion instrument. The company was founded in 1922 as the Premier Drum Company by London drummer Albert Della Porta and drum builder George Smith. At first, the company produced drum kit for wholesalers, who then would sell them as their own, but Premier soon began producing drums under its own name. Premier also began producing symphonic percussion, marching percussion, and cymbal in addition to drum kits. Premier was...

AMS Neve Ltd was the result of the amalgamation in 1992 of AMS (Advanced Music Systems) with Neve Electronics International, also known simply as Neve for historical reasons, a legendary British mixing console manufacturer that originated in the work of Rupert Neve in the 1960s. Neve analogue consoles have been considered to be of such high quality that many of twenty or thirty years of age are still in use today at recording studio around the world—even as digital audio has taken over many...

Silvertone was the brand name used by Sears for their line of musical instruments and sound equipment from the 1930s to 1972. Replacing the Supertone brand, Silvertone had already been the brand on Sears' radio and phonograph since 1915. Probably best known for their line of well made and inexpensive guitar, the brand became popular with novice musician. Rudy Sarzo,Chet Atkins, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, James Hetfield, Dave Grohl, Phil Keaggy, Mark Knopfler and countless others had...

Greg Bennett Guitars are produced by Samick Music Corporation. After 40 years of producing guitars, Korean musical instruments manufacturer Samick hired industry veteran Greg Bennett to give their guitar line a radical makeover, with the goal of improving appearance, sound quality, and build quality. Bennett started redesigning the instruments at his studio in Nashville, Tennessee, after which the search for the electronics and woods took place. The new Samick guitars, now under the name of...