Guitar Story
Guitar Story
In 2025, Cordoba Music Group, LLC controlled the Guild name under Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc.. Its 4 lines on record were built at Korean DeArmond builder (Guild; builder unverified), Chinese GAD builder (Guild; builder unverified), Chinese Westerly Collection factory partners (Guild; unverified) and Guild Oxnard (South Korea, China and USA).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
A Guild guitar from 2025 belongs to whichever era was running on its product line that year. An era is a stretch when the company that controlled the name and the plant that built the line both stayed the same. If you know the line, the table below tells you which version of Guild you have. The name dates from 1952[S002, S126, S217], 73 years before.
| Line | Controlled by | Parent | Built at | Era | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guild DeArmond (Korea) | Cordoba Music Group, LLC | Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. | Korean DeArmond builder (Guild; builder unverified) South Koreano source | 2023–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
| Guild GAD (China) | Cordoba Music Group, LLC | Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. | Chinese GAD builder (Guild; builder unverified) Chinano source | 2023–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8] |
| Guild USA | Cordoba Music Group, LLC | Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. | Guild Oxnard Oxnard, CA, USAno source | 2023–now | secondary[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9] |
| Guild Westerly Collection (China) | Cordoba Music Group, LLC | Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. | Chinese Westerly Collection factory partners (Guild; unverified) Chinano source | 2023–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10] |
Nothing changed in 2025. Every era running that year carried on from an earlier year, so a Guild from 2025 is the same version as one from 2024.
Korean DeArmond builder (Guild; builder unverified), Chinese GAD builder (Guild; builder unverified), Guild Oxnard and Chinese Westerly Collection factory partners (Guild; unverified). See every brand each plant built for, and every plant in the same country:
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.