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A Musical instrument company is a company that manufactures and sells musical instruments. This type has no properties of its own, but is...
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| x Heritage Guitars |
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Heritage Guitars is a guitar manufacturer in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.
Heritage Guitars was founded in 1985 by former employees of the Gibson guitar factory. In the early 1980s, Gibson, faced with excess production capacity and, some claim...
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| x Kawai |
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The Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (河合楽器製作所 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho) TYO: 7952 of Japan is best known for its pianos, electronic keyboards & electronic synthesizers. The company was established in August, 1927, and is headquartered...
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| x Rodgers Instruments |
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Rodgers Instruments LLC manufactures church organs, using patented stereophonic digital organ technology. Rodgers is the largest builder of custom church organs in the world. The company's installed product base ranges from pipe organs and...
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| x Aeolian-Skinner |
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Æolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc. — Æolian-Skinner of Boston, Massachusetts was an important American builder of a large number of notable pipe organs from its inception as the Skinner Organ Company in 1901 until its closure in 1972. Key figures...
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| x Arp Schnitger |
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Arp Schnitger (born July 2, 1648 in Schmalenfleth, buried July 28, 1719) was a highly influential German organ builder. He was primarily active in Northern Europe, especially the Netherlands and Germany, where a number of his instruments survive to...
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| x T. Cooke & Sons |
T. Cooke & Sons was a British instrument-making firm, founded by Thomas Cooke.
In 1922 it merged with Troughton & Simms to form Cooke, Troughton & Simms.
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| x Fodera |
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Fodera is an 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...
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| x Sadowsky |
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Sadowsky Guitars Limited (Professional Guitar Services) is a Brooklyn, New York based high-end guitar, bass guitar, and preamp manufacturer. The company took its name from the company founder, Roger Sadowsky. Sadowsky is an alumnus of SUNY Geneseo,...
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| x Electronic Music Studios Ltd |
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...
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| x Siel |
Societa Industrie Elettroniche (SIEL) was an Italian company that made electronic organs and synthesizers in the 1980s.
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| x Ovation Guitar |
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The Ovation Guitar Company, a holding of Kaman Music Corporation, is a guitar manufacturing company based in New Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Ovation primarily manufactures acoustic guitars.
Ovation guitars are differentiated by their composite...
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| x SONOR |
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Sonor (Pronounced: suh-NOOR) is a German percussion manufacturer. Founded 1875 as a percussion manufacturer, Sonor drum sets and hardware are both revered and notorious for being constructed in a very durable, painstaking, and therefore, unusually...
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| x UFIP |
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...
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| x Petrof |
Petrof is a Czech piano maker. The company was founded in 1864 in Hradec Králové by Antonín Petrof (d.1915) who had studied piano making in Vienna.
1857 – The company founder Antonín PETROF goes to Vienna to learn how to build grand pianos
1864 –...
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| x Mosrite |
Mosrite is 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, Davie...
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| x Vincent Bach Corporation |
The Vincent Bach Corporation was an American manufacturer of brass musical instruments.
The company was founded in 1918 by the trumpeter Vincent Bach (1890-1976), first making mouthpieces and then in 1924 its first trumpet. Over the years, the...
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| x Hagström |
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Hagström ['hɑ:gstrœm], or Hagstrom as the name is sometimes spelled, was a musical instrument manufacturer in Älvdalen, Dalecarlia, Sweden. Their original products were accordions that they initially imported from Germany and then Italy before...
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| x Slingerland Drum Company |
The Slingerland Drum Company is a historic drum company which is linked to the rich history of jazz drumming. The company was founded by H.H. Slingerland (1875-1946 either Henry Heanon or Heanon Henry and his wife, Naomi (Noni) Solick Slingerland,...
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| x American Drum Manufacturing Company |
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...
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| x Elektron |
Elektron is an electronic musical instrument company, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Products it produces include the Monomachine synthesizer, the Machinedrum percussion synthesizer, and the SID-based SidStation.
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| x Conn-Selmer |
Conn-Selmer, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of concert band, marching band, and orchestral instruments. It is a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. and was formed after Steinway bought musical instrument manufacturers The Selmer...
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| x Marimba One |
Marimba One is a manufacturer of handmade marimbas based in Arcata, California. The company was founded by Ron Samuels in the 1980s. Each marimba is custom-made and tuned by hand. The company makes 5 1/2, 5, 4 1/2, and 4 1/3 octave models, plus a 3...
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| x Premier Percussion |
Premier Percussion Limited is an English manufacturer of drums and percussion instruments.
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...
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| x Valley Arts Guitar |
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Valley Arts Guitar is an American electric guitar manufacturer currently owned and operated by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Mike McGuire and Al Carness founded the company in the mid-1970s in North Hollywood, California, a district of Los Angeles,...
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| x AMS Neve |
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AMS Neve Ltd was the result of the amalgamation in 1992 of AMS (Advanced Music Systems) with Neve Electronics.
Neve were originally a legendary British mixing console manufacturer that originated in the work of Rupert Neve in the 1960s. Neve...
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| x Black Swamp Percussion |
Black Swamp Percussion is a manufacturer of orchestral percussion instruments and mallets based in Zeeland, Michigan. Black Swamp sells instruments through music dealers in the US and overseas.
Founded by percussionist Eric Sooy in 1994, the company...
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| x Silvertone |
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' radios and phonographs since 1915. Probably...
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| x Moog Music |
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Moog Music is an American company based in Asheville, North Carolina which manufactures electronic musical instruments. The current Moog Music is the second company to trade under that name.
Based in Trumansburg in Upstate New York, Robert Moog's...
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| x Greg Bennett Guitars |
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...
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| x Mason and Hamlin |
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Mason and Hamlin is a piano manufacturer based in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Mason & Hamlin was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854 by Henry Mason, son of Lowell Mason, the American hymn composer and musical educator, and Emmons Hamlin, a...
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| x Teisco |
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Teisco (テイスコ) was a Japanese manufacturer of affordable musical instruments from 1948 until 1969. The company produced guitars as well as keyboard instruments, microphones, amplifiers and even drums. Teisco products were widely exported to the...
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| x Crumar |
Crumar is an Italian company which manufactured synthesizers and keyboards in the 70s and 80s. Its name is taken from that of its founder, Mario Crucianelli. Crumar started out manufacturing electric pianos and string synthesizers, famous with the...
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| x Fazioli Pianoforti |
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Fazioli Pianoforti (pronounced [fatsi'ɔli]) is a piano manufacturing company based in Sacile, Italy.
Fazioli currently produces 110 pianos a year from its one factory, and has annual revenues of €6 million.
In 1944, Paolo Fazioli, the youngest of...
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| x Welson |
Welson is a former Italian manufacturer of electrical guitars, keyboards and bass guitars. The guitars were especially well-known in the fifties and sixties.
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| x Dynasty USA |
Dynasty USA is a manufacturer of marching brass and percussion instruments based in the United States, and is one of the last remaining manufacturers of valved bugles pitched in G.
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| x Godin |
Godin is a Canadian guitar manufacturer. It is owned by Robert Godin.
Godin started building Robert Godin's guitars in 1982 in La Patrie, Quebec.
Godin Guitars' head office is located in Montreal, and they build their instruments in six factories in...
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| x Parker Guitars |
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Parker Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses, started by luthier Ken Parker in the early 90s. Most Famous for making the Parker Fly.
Beginning in a workshop in Rochester, New York Parker designed and crafted electric...
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| x C. W. Osgood Company |
C. W. Osgood Company is a musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart, Indiana. It was founded by Charles W. Osgood (c. 1855 - September 6, 1946) who is believed to have lived most of his life in the Elkhart area. In 1890 he was working for Conn, and...
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| x Besson |
Besson is an established manufacturer of brass instruments. It is owned by Buffet Crampon, which bought Besson in 2006 from The Music Group.
The company was formed in 1837 by Gustave Auguste Besson, who at the age of 18 produced a revolutionary...
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| x Koide Cymbals |
Koide Cymbals is a Japan manufacturer of cymbal. They are not normally available outside Japan.
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| x Latin Percussion |
Latin Percussion, also known as LP, is a brand of percussion instruments, specializing in ethnic instruments engineered and manufactured to withstand the rigors of use in a drum kit, orchestral percussion section, and similar applications. This re...
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| x Meinl Percussion |
Meinl Percussion is a leading manufacturer of cymbals and other percussion instruments, based in Gutenstetten, Germany. Their main brand is Meinl.
Founded in 1951 by Roland Meinl. As well as being one of the "big four" cymbal manufacturers (with...
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| x Meinl-Weston |
Meinl-Weston is a leading manufacturer of brass instruments, based in Geretsried in Germany and formerly based in Graslitz.
Their main brands are Melton and Meinl Weston, with current instruments bearing both logos. Despite the engraving A Division...
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| x John Brombaugh |
John Brombaugh, (born March 1, 1937) is an American master pipe organ builder, known for his historically-oriented tracker action instruments, some of which are capable of playing at different historical pitches.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Brombaugh has...
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| x Hendrik Niehoff |
Hendrik Niehoff (1495 – c. 1561) was a Dutch pipe organ builder, who learned with noted builder, Jan van Covelen (c. 1470-1532). According to Liuwe Tamminga, Niehoff was born in Leeuwarden, the capital of Province Friesland. (Tamminga has been...
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| x Tagima |
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Tagima is a Brazilian guitar manufacturing company.
The name Tagima comes from Seizi Tagima a Japanese descendent who learned to craft guitars just by watching the process.
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| x Rudolf von Beckerath |
Rudolf von Beckerath (February 19, 1907 – 1976) was a German master organ builder. He was born in Munich, but grew up in Hamburg, where his parents moved the year he was born. He initially pursued an interest in mechanical engineering. After...
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| x C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik |
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C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik AG (FWB: BEP) (also known as Bechstein) is a German manufacturer of pianos, established in 1853 by Carl Bechstein.
Young Carl Bechstein studied and worked in France and England as a piano craftsman, before he became an...
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| x Campbell Guitars |
Campbell Guitar Company of Detroit was founded by Frank Campbell in the late 19th Century. Frank's son John Burdett Campbell continued the family business as a sideline to real estate. None of his three sons took serious interest in the family...
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| x Sho-Bud |
Sho-Bud is a brand name for a manufacturer of pedal steel guitars. The founders were SHOt Jackson and BUDdy Emmons, both active steel players in the 1950s. In the 70s they also expanded their line and offered acoustic guitars. They also made a line...
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| x Tokai Gakki |
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Tokai Gakki Co., Ltd. (東海楽器製造株式会社 ,Tōkai Gakki Seizō Kabushiki-gaisha), often referred as Tokai Guitars Company Ltd., is a Japanese guitar manufacturer founded in 1947 and situated in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka prefecture. Tokai have produced acoustic...
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| x Mander Organs |
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Mander Organs is an English pipe organ maker and refurbisher based in London. Although well known for many years in the world of organ building, they achieved wider notability in 2004 with their refurbishment of the Royal Albert Hall's Father Willis...
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| x Taylor Guitars |
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Taylor Guitars is an El Cajon, California‐based luthier, specializing in hollow-body acoustic guitars, as well as semi-hollow and solidbody electric guitars. It was established in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listung and is still operated under Bob...
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| x DiMarzio |
DiMarzio (full name: DiMarzio Musical Instrument Pickups, Inc.) is an American-based electronic manufacturing company, famous for its guitar pickups. The company also produces miscellaneous guitar accessories, such as cables, straps and hardware....
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| x Eastwood Guitars |
Eastwood Guitars is a Canadian company set up by Michael Robinson which reproduces some classic electric guitar designs.
The company was set up because Michael Robinson wanted to re-create some of the vintage electric guitars that had since gone out...
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| x Access Music |
Access Music is the music company that produced the Access Virus synthesizer product line.
Started in 1997, this German music company has consistently created high quality subtractive virtual analogue, also known as analog modeling synthesizer....
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| x REMO |
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Remo is an American drumhead and banjo head company. They are well known for their highly successful Weatherking series, which is now seen on orchestral, world, and marching percussion, and drum sets.
In addition to drumheads, Remo also produces...
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| x First Act |
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First Act is a musical instrument manufacturer. They are also heavily involved in creating products which support the role of music in enhancing children's development.
First Act's line of products includes guitars, bass guitars, guitar and bass...
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| x Felgemaker Organ Company |
The Felgemaker Organ Company was a manufacturer of pipe organs based out of Erie, Pennsylvania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The company produced organs until 1918, when it ceased operations. The company's service agreements and pending...
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| x Darrow Pipe Organ |
Darrow Pipe Organ is a pipe organ builder located in Onawa, Iowa. This company builds new organs, as well as perform service work on existing instruments.
The company was established by Rick Darrow. Darrow has about 30 years experience in the...
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