Where the guitars were made

Country by country: how many plants are on record, which brands they built, and the first year on record. Open a country for its plants, who ran them and a map. Counts come straight from the plant and production records; the sources for each are on the country’s page.

Sources

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   Wikipedia: wiki/C. F. Martin %26 Companygraded community

   • "relocated to Nazareth… in 1839"First build on record in USA, 1833
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   Wikipedia: wiki/Ibanez GIOgraded community

   • "produced in either China or Indonesia"First build on record in China, 1997
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   fandom: wiki/Epiphonegraded community

   • "Samick began building Epiphones in 1984… The Korean factory stopped making Epiphones in 2002."First build on record in South Korea, 1984
4. 4
   Wikipedia: wiki/Ibanezgraded community

   • "After the Tama factory stopped manufacturing guitars in 1966"First build on record in Japan, 1935
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   guitarinsite: epiphone factoriesgraded community

   • The company has produced guitars for Epiphone under an OEM agreement since 1995.First build on record in Indonesia, 1995
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   bluebookofguitarvalues: gretsch company history 1973-presentgraded secondary

   • Baldwin had experimented briefly with guitar production at their Mexican organ facilities, producing perhaps 100 Southern Belle guitars (basically renamed Country Gentlemans) between 1978 and 1979.First build on record in Mexico, 1978