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Pro Co

Pro Co Sound is a Michigan Corporation founded by Charlie Wicks in 1974. Pro Co builds audio cables and related products for Musical Instrument retailers (stores, catalog retailers and distributors) and Sound Contractors.

BOSS

BOSS is the division of Roland Corporation most easily recognized for its line of colorful guitar and bass effects pedals.

For over 25 years BOSS has also developed innovative multi-effects, rhythm machines, personal digital studios and other easy-to-use instruments for musicians of all types.

Grover

Grover first began making guitar and banjo machine heads in the late 1800's then expanded into wider production of tuners for bass guitar, pedal steel, mandolin, dulcimer, ukulele and violin. Grover made the world's first enclosed, permanently lubricated machine head. Today, their expanded product line includes a wide assortment of guitar accessories for upgrading and repair and features several new items.

STAGG

The Stagg brand was introduced by distributor EMD Music, as their first house brand in 1995. Global sales of Stagg products expanded to the point that Stagg now provides most of EMD's revenue.

Roland

Ikutaro Kakehashi founded Roland in Osaka in 1972. Roland's first product was the TR-77 drum machine. In 1973 they introduced a compact synth - the SH-1000. Guitar effects were added to the line-up in 1974 and in 1975 they began making amplifiers including the legendary Jazz Chorus model. In 1977 Roland introduced the GR-500 guitar synth (by 1980 they also had the 303 and 808 guitar synth models). Roland also owns the Boss brand name known for its effects pedals.

PRS

Paul Reed Smith Guitars (PRS Guitars) was founded in 1985 in Annapolis, Maryland by Paul Reed Smith. Smith started building guitars while still in college and soon decided to make it his career. In the early days he was making around 1 guitar a month. He would hanging out at the local concert venues and talk his way backstage to to show his guitars to the touring musicians. He would occasionally make a sale this way: Carlos Santana, Al Di Meola, Howard Leese, and other well known players agreed to try out his guitars. After getting some success with orders for more than 50 guitars, he made two prototypes and took them on the road to demo to East Coast guitar dealers. This generated enough orders for him to start his company.

GHS

The founders of GHS had a wealth of string making experience when they started the small family-owned business in 1964. Now, GHS has grown to one of the leading manufacturers in this music specialty. The "Brightness Bar" found on select packages of strings, will show you what strings produce which kinds of tone. GHS produces a full line of strings for fretted instruments - electric, acoustic and classical guitar; electric bass; banjo; mandolin; pedal and steel guitar and much more.

Fender

The company was founded by Leo Fender as Fender's Radio Service in late 1938 in Fullerton, California, USA. While repairing musical instrument amplifiers in his electronics workshop he noticed their design flaws. He began making a few amplifiers using his own designs or modifications to designs. By the early 1940s, he had teamed up with another local electronics enthusiast named Clayton Orr (Doc) Kauffman, and they formed a company named K & F Manufacturing Corp. to design, manufacture, and sell electric instruments and amplifiers. Production began in 1945 with Hawaiian lap steel guitars (incorporating a patented pickup) and amplifiers, which were sold as sets. Leo Fender decided to concentrate on manufacturing rather than repair. Kauffman remained unconvinced, however, and they had amicably parted ways by early 1946. At that point Leo renamed the company the Fender Electric Instrument Company.

ERNIE BALL

Ernie Ball was an American entrepreneur and musician. Around 1958 Ernie Ball opened probably the first American music store selling exclusively guitars.
In the 1960s Ernie noticed a demand for lighter gauge strings, associated with the rock and roll playing styles.

The Ernie Ball Slinky range of guitar strings were officially launced in 1962 and remain popular today.

DiMarzio

Larry DiMarzio introduced the Super Distortion and Dual Sound pickups around 1971. These were the first mass market replacement guitar pickups and started a revolution of guitar hot-rodding in the 1970s. The high output Super Distortion pickup made it easier to get an overdriven distorted sound than with most stock humbuckers of the period. Located in Staten Island DiMarzio now produces a range of nearly 200 different pickups, as well as cables & straps.

Source: DiMarzio website (18 March 2017)

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