Guitar Story A Brand Lineage Research Project

Company

Electro String Instrument Corporation (originally Ro-Pat-In Corporation; Adolph Rickenbacker and partners), Los Angeles: brand owner behind Rickenbacker · Guitar Story

brand owner

Electro String Instrument Corporation (originally Ro-Pat-In Corporation; Adolph Rickenbacker and partners), Los Angeles

USA^{[1, 2]}

Every date on this page is unverified. It comes from an internal draft and has no source attached yet.

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

Electro String Instrument Corporation (originally Ro-Pat-In Corporation; Adolph Rickenbacker and partners), Los Angeles ran 1 plant on record. The brands below were built at those plants, whoever owned the name.

Plant	Ran it	Brands built there
Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964) Los Angeles, California, USA^[3]	?–1953^[3]	Rickenbacker Rickenbacker USA (electric guitars and basses) · 1932–1964^{[1, 3]}

Brands controlled

Years	Brand	How	Source
1931–1953	Rickenbacker	owns	unverified^{[1, 3, 4, 5]}

Sources

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.

1
Rickenbacker (Wikipedia)graded community
2
FAQ: Common Questions About Rickenbackergraded primary
3
The Story of Rickenbacker: Influencing Music Historygraded primary
4
Rickenbacker part 2: 1950s onwardsgraded community
5
Rickenbackers: Electric 12-Stringsgraded secondary

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