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Wilder

Wilder Engineering Products was established by Richard Wilder and made speakers and amplifiers in Chicago. Their logo indicates that the speaker manufacturing started around 1945.

Source: Wilder Amplifiers catalogs 1966-1969

West

West Laboratories was an amplifier brand founded by David W. West in 1963. It started out as a Hi-Fi shop in Okemos, Michigan - when Dave West began to build amps for local guitarists. In 1971 they were producing 2 solid state power amp models (J500 & J250) and 3 tube amplifier heads (the Fillmore, Grande and Avalon models). They were owned by Canfield-Marshall Inc - Dave West had left the company by 1972.

Source: West Labs catalog 1971

Source: West Labs website (archived 2007)

Winston

Winston was a brand name of the Kent musical products division of Buegelesien and Jacobson (B&J). Winston guitars were made in Japan for import into the USA in the 1960s and 1970s.

Source: Winston catalogs 1966, 1968, 1970

TUSC

TUSC was a tube amplifier company based in Central Islip, NY and run by Craig Frye. They produced a range of programmable tube amplifiers in the early 1980s: the range included heads (CF50, CF100), cabinets (using FANE speakers) and combo amplifiers (DF50, DF100 and CR100).

Source: TUSC catalog 1981

Wabash

Wabash is a guitar, amplifier & accessories brand name of David Wexler & Company.  Wexler & Co has been around since the 1920s and the Wabash guitars date back until at least the 1950s. There were also Wabash tube amplifiers, picks & straps.

Source: Wexlar & Co website (25 June 2021)

Voice

Voice was a brand name of the Japanese Iwase Electronic Company Ltd. The company was founded in 1965 by Mr Iwase (born 1931 in Tokyo) who had previously worked for Teisco. Iwase Electronic Co. made amplifiers and guitars until 1970. While the amplifiers were factory made, Voice guitars were handmade by Mr Iwase himself who built around 300 in total.

Source: Electric Deer Guitarworks - Voice Guitars (21 June 2021)

Vivitone

Vivi-Tone was a musical instrument company founded in 1933 by Lloyd Loar, Lewis A. Williams, and Walter Moon in Kalamazoo. Lloyd Loar is best known for his innovative work with Gibson from 1919 to 1924 and he carried on this inventiveness with Vivitone. The company made electrified guitars, violins, mandolins, a keyboard, and at least one amplifier - but was ultimately not a commercial success.

Standard Guitars

At Standard Guitars we're proud to craft the vintage guitars of today; true to vintage specifications and tonal qualities and completely manufactured by hand in the United States at trully affordable prices.

From the heart of Route 66 in the Southwest United States, we're here to bring back authenticity and pride to the guitar world. Our mission is not one that concentrates on the profit but one aimed at quality, tone and craftmanship at prices accessible to all musicians and guitar enthusiasts. 

We believe in hand-made craftmanship and attention to detail. Every instrument is crafted by hand and not CNC machines, no mass production lines, no outsorcing, and we used the same vintage methods used to build the vintage icons we so revere today. No shortcuts, no excuses.

Source: standardguitars.com (5 May 2021)

Trainwreck

Ken Fischer (1945 - 2006) started Trainwreck Cicuits in 1981 as amplifier repair and modification service in Colonia, New Jersey. By 1982 he had a request by an Atlantic recording artist to build him a custom amplifier. At that point he designed the ultimate amp to suit his personal tastes. There were many styles of amps already out there but he knew that one channel was the way he would go. He also decided that master volume circuits did not give the response of power tubes. He also eschewed spring reverb in his design.

Source: Trainwreck Cicuits catalog 1987

Tonemaster

Tonemaster was a brand name of the Imperial Accordion Company of Chicago. Tonemaster guitars were made by Crucianelli in Italy for distribution in the USA by Imperial - sometimes labelled Tonemaster by Imperial. Identical Crucianelli guitars were distributed elsewhere under different brand names - e.g. Elite, Ardsley, Baron, Crestone, Philharmonic, Reno, Supreme & Sorrento. Imperial also used their Tonemaster brand for amplifiers made by Estey.

Source: Fetish Guitars - Tonemaster ( February 2021)

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