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Chord

Chord is a brand name of UK consumer electronics & musical instrument distributor AVSL Group. Launched in 2010, the Chord music brand covers everything from guitars and percussion to amplifiers and stands, with a multitude of accessories such as cases and covers, tuners, pick-ups and metronomes.

Source: Chord website (14 March 2022)

Godman

Godman is a budget electric, acoustic and bass guitar brand. Also Godman banjos, mandolins and ukuleles. The brand has been around since the mid 2000s, possibly earlier.

Peate

Peate mandolin and banjos were sold by Peate Musical supplies in Montreal from the early 1900s onwards. in the 1950s Peate began using the Mansfield brand for their guitars. Peate Musical Supplies was founded by George Alfred Peate, a teen-aged mandolin virtuoso, who toured North America and Europe as a concert soloist. George Peate settled down in Montreal, put together his life savings of a several hundred dollars and opened a small musical instrument shop. Montreal at the time was a city of gaslit streets and horsedrawn carriages, but there was a strong interest in music and George Peate's store prospered. By 2010 Peate Musical was the oldest family-owned musical instrument distributor  in North America, and a leading wholesaler & agent  in Canada.

Source: Peate Music (archived 2010)

Rally

Rally is a brand name of Daewon Musical Instrument Co. Ltd.  - a Korean company. Daewon Musical Instruments Co., Ltd was established in 1991. In 1997 they introduced the Straus brand for Electric Violins, Cello & Double Bass. In 1998 they built a new factory & equipped new facilities in Korea, soon followed in 2001 by a Daewon China factory in Dalian, China. They began making hard shell cases in 2005.

Source: Rally website (archived 2008)

Asama

Asama is a Japanese made guitar brand from the 1970s and 1980s. The range included electric guitars with built-in effects, acoustic and classical guitars, basses, banjos and mandolins.

Oqan

OQAN is a brand name of the Spanish musical instrument distributor Holmusic from Barcelona. There is a wide range of OQAN products from acoustic, electric and bass guitars to orchestral stringed instruments - but the brand is aimed at the affordable end of the market.

Source: OQAN website (15 February 2022)

Muzikkon

Muzikkon Ltd. is an Irish musical instrument distributor. Muzikkon specialize in Irish & Folk instruments, Tradition Percussion and Ethnic/World instruments. Muzikkon stock everything from Irish Bodhrans, Traditional Irish Flutes, stringed instruments including the Irish Harp and the Lyre, music accessories like music stands, natural skins and instrument bags and more. Their aim is to make these traditional folk instruments more accessible to every user - so their prices tend to be affordable.

Source: Muzikkon website (17 January 2022)

Guadagnini

The Guadagnini family were a dynasty of Italian luthiers beginning with Lorenzo Guadagnini (1689-1748) who used the label “Laurentius Guadagnini, alumnus Antonius Stradivarius,” suggesting he may have studied with Stradivarius in Cremona towards the end of his life. Lorenzo’s son, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1711 - 1786) trained with his father & perhaps also Stradivarius and his violins are regarded as the best of the Guadagnini family. He had 2 sons, Giuseppe Guadagnini (1736-1805) and Gaetano Guadagnini (1745-1831), continued the family tradition and manufactured some good instruments (including guitars and mandolins). Guadagnini violin-making continued over 4 more generations in Turin. The last one was Paolo Guadagnini who died in World War II in 1942.

Source:The Guadagnini. Family of Violin Makers. Ernest N. Doring (Chicago, 1949).

Monzino

Monzino & Garlandini was an Italian stringed instrument maker that started in 1750 when Antonio Monzino I opened his first shop in Milan. The Monzinos opened a workshop in 1872 where Cremonese luthiers made violins as well as developing new stringed instruments (including a travel guitar for women). The Monzinos were joined by brother in law Carlo Garlandini in 1905 and the firm became Monzino & Garlandini. At first the Monzino side were more involved in importing and making the instruments and the Garlandini cousins were more involved in the retail side of the business. The Mogar brand emerged in the late 1950s when Antonio Carlo ​​Garlandini separated from the other ​​Garlandini cousins and opened a larger workshop was in Via Donatello where five luthiers made and repaired classical and electric guitars badged with the Mogar brand name. Mogar is still a major Italian musical instrument distributor.

Erminio Travi

Erminio Travi was a Milanese luthier who made guitars and mandolins in the early part of the 20th century. Erminio Travi was the uncle and first teacher of the luthier Carlo Raspagni. In the 1930s his workshop was in Vignate, Milan. He made guitars in the "old style" of the early twentieth century, very decorated but not suited for the typical 20th century classical player. For this reason he never gained the international recognition he deserved, although well known locally. He worked tirelessly and with passion until he was ninety.

Source: Classical Guitar Delcamp forum (12 January 2022)

Pietro Gallinotti

Pietro Gallinotti (1885-1979) one of the great Italian luthiers, was born in Solero, Italy. He apprenticed as cabinet maker in Genova, from age 10 until his late 20s. He was drafted into the army in World War I, and while a prisoner of war in Czechoslovakia used his wood working skills to make a violin. Following the war he returned home to Solero and opened a stringed instrument work shop where he made violins, violas & cellos.

Carlo Raspagni

Carlo Raspagni (14 October 1925 - 30 August 1999 ) was an Italian luthier .He began his career at the end of the Second World War in the workshop of his uncle, Erminio Travi, a builder of mandolins and guitars. He later went to Milan to learn the finer techniques of building guitars. He was hired by Monzino where he worked on the assembly line. After ten years, in 1960 he left to set up his own business and began collaborations with the great luthiers of the time such as Giulietti, Naldi and his teacher Gallinotti.

Zim-Gar

Zim-Gar was the brand name of Gar-Zim Musical Instruments, an import and distribution company located in Brooklyn, New York. It was run by Larry Zimmerman and his wife. At one point, it may have been known as the American Musical Instrument Corporation before Zimmerman took on a partner (Mr. Garfield) in the Garfield Zimmerman Music Company. This was eventually shortened to Gar-Zim Musical Instruments. There were Zim-Gar branded guitars, ukuleles, banjos, mandolins as well as percussion instruments. Some of the guitars were made in Japan by the likes of Teisco.

Source: National Music Museum - Gar-Zim Musical Instruments (5 January 2022)

Yanuziello

Joseph Yanuziello (born 1952 in Toronto) is a maker of guitars and other stringed instruments. He graduated from art college in 1975 and made his first guitar in 1979 while working in a custom cabinet shop. He worked as a self employed builder and designer of furniture and cabinets, as well as building custom guitars for a growing list of musicians. The success of his guitars meant that in 1999 Yanuziello was able to become a full time instrument maker. His guitars are played by professional and amateur musicians world wide. Yanuziello designs and makes many of his components in-house including his metal combo bridge, pickup covers, tailpieces and knobs.

Source: Yanuziello website (22 November 2021)

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