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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 expected as the “Brand” property of specific types of instrument.
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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 expected as the “Brand” property of specific types of instrument.
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| Heritage Guitars |
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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...
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| Kawai |
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The Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (河合楽器製作所 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho) of Japan is best known for its pianos, electronic keyboards & electronic synthesizers. The headquarters is in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka.
The K5 and K5000 digital...
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| Rodgers Instruments |
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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...
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| Aeolian-Skinner |
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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| Arp Schnitger |
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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...
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| 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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| Fodera | Company |
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...
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| 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.
Roger Sadowsky, an alumnus of SUNY Geneseo, founded the company in 1979, having 7 years of guitar luthier...
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| Electronic Music Studios Ltd | Company |
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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| Siel |
Societa Industrie Elettroniche (SIEL) was an Italian company that made electronic organ and synthesizer in the 1980s.
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| Ovation Guitar |
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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...
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Sonor (Pronounced Suh-Nor) is a German percussion manufacturer. From early in the 20th century, Sonor drum sets and hardware are both revered and notorious for being constructed in a very durable, painstaking, and therefore, unusually heavy manner....
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| 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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| Petrof | Company |
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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| Mosrite |
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...
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| Vincent Bach Corporation | Company |
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 mouthpiece and then in 1924 its first trumpet. Over the years, the...
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| Hagström |
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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...
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| Slingerland Drum Company | 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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| 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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| Elektron | Company |
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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| Conn-Selmer |
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...
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| Marimba One |
Marimba One is a manufacturer of handmade marimba 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 5½-, 5-, 4½-, and 4⅓-octave models, plus a 3...
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| Premier Percussion |
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...
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| 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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| AMS Neve | Company |
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...
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| Black Swamp Percussion |
Black Swamp Percussion is a manufacturer of orchestra percussion instrument 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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| 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' radio and phonograph since 1915. Probably...
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| Moog Music |
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Moog Music is an American company based in Asheville, North Carolina which manufactures electronic musical instrument. 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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| 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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| Mason and Hamlin |
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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