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Triggs

Jim Triggs started out building mandolins in the Midwest and on the West Coast of the USA. He went to work for the Gibson Custom Shop in 1986 where he helped return the famous F5 model to its vintage specifications. At Gibson he also supervised the Custom Shop and also worked in artist relations in Nashville. Triggs left Gibson in 1992 to build guitars on his own as a "one man custom shop" in Lawrence, Kansas. In 2004 he was joined by his son Ryan and the pair continue to build custom instruments one at a time.

Source: Triggs Guitars website (30 March 2021)

WALDEN

Walden Guitars is a manufacturer of acoustic guitars and classical guitars. Walden Guitars are built in the small town of Lilan, nearby Langfang, China. Formed in 1996, Walden Guitars is a collaboration between CFox Guitars, Inc. luthiers Charles Fox and Jonathan Lee, and Taiwan instrument manufacturer KHS Musical Instruments.

Source: Walden guitars website (archived 2012)

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.

Stevens Custom Guitars

Stevens Custom Guitars is a Munich company launched in 1992 which makes fine handmade music instruments, such as steel string guitars, irish bouzoukis, acoustic basses and custom-made instruments. It was founded by Werner Kozlik & Stefan Zirnbauer. Werner is responsible for the acoustic instrument making department, marketing and finances and Stefan’s responsibilities are the repair workshop, the trading department and custom construction of electric instruments.

Source: Stevens Custom Guitars website (19 November 2020)

Standel

Bob Crooks founded the Standel Company in Temple City, California in the early 1950s as a custom guitar amplifier company. In the late 1950s Standel expanded their product line to include electric guitars, with a telecaster style instrument made for Standel by Semi Moseley of Mosrite. In the mid1960s another collaboration with Moseley led to a Standel guitar with a reverse bodied stratocaster style body (like the Mosrite Ventures model). The Standel Custom model was made from 1966 until 1967 by Joe Hall at the Bakersfield factory - its low output pickups were desgined to be matched with a Standel amplifier. In 1967 there was also a line of 10 semi-hollow body and arch-top guitars, five acoustic models (with 12-string variants) and two basses. These were designed and made by Sam Koontz and The Harptone Manufacturing Company.

Ramirez

Ramírez Guitars was established in 1882 by José Ramírez I (1858-1923) and his brother Manuel Ramirez (1864-1916) in Madrid, Spain. In 1891 Manuel started his own workshop in Madrid in completion with his brother. This caused a lasting rift between the brothers and they never spoke again. The first José Ramírez died in 1923 his son José Ramírez II returned from South America to take over the business in 1925. José Ramírez II's sons Alfredo and José III (1922-1995) also joined the business. José III took over in 1957 after the death of José II. José Ramírez III is the best known of the Ramírez family of luthiers due to his innovations in guitar design, increasing the size and scale of the instrument as well as using asymmetrical bracing which increased the volume and clarity of the instrument.

Regal

The Regal Musical Instrument Company was one of the big American musical instrument makers. The Regal brand had its roots in Indianapolis in the Lyon & Healy company but was spun off as a separate company in 1908. The Chicago Regal factory made stringed instruments for Lyon & Healy, but also supplied many other distributors with house brands including the Montgomery Ward catalog. Regal was well known for making resonator instruments but this ceased at the start of World War II and by 1955 the production of all fretted instruments stopped.

The Regal brand name was revived by Fender in 1965 for a series of banjos. In 1987 the Saga Musical Instrument Company aquired the Regal brand name and resumed production of Regal resonator guitars.

RAIMUNDO

Manuel Raimundo founded Raimundo Guitarras in 1968. He started in a small family shop but soon began to participate in national fairs, which helped to get new customers and familiarise the Raimundo brand around Spain. Soon Manuel began make higher quality instruments for the export market and by 1974 was attending international music trade fairs in Frankfurt, Paris and Los Angeles. By 1980 he had a staff of over 20 employees making around 8,000 instruments a year. At this point Raimundo moved to a new factory in the “Boca De Jarro” industrial park, in the city of Paterna, where they are still located. The 1980s and 1990s saw further expansion into international markets and in 1998 Manuel Raimundo's son Victor joined the company (and is now its leader). In 2005 Raimundo began exporting to the Far East. In 2010 the company invested in the latest manufacturing technology and IT systems, they also introduced steel string guitars for the first time.

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