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- Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified)
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- Chinese contractors for Ibanez GIO (unverified)
- Chinese GAD builder (Guild; builder unverified)
- Chinese Westerly Collection factory partners (Guild; unverified)
- Cor-Tek China (PRS; city unverified)
- Gibson Qingdao
- Harmony import line builder (disputed origin; China per blog)
- Yako (China; city unverified)
- Indonesia
- Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified)
- Ibanez Indonesian Premium facility (operator unverified)
- PRS building at PT Cort, Ngoro
- PT Cort Indonesia, Ngoro
- PT Samick Indonesia, Cileungsi
- PT Wildwood, Banten
- YMMI (Yamaha Music Manufacturing Indonesia; location unverified)
- Japan
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- Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified)
- Korean builder of Traveling Wilburys guitars (unverified)
- Korean builders for Ibanez (unverified)
- Korean DeArmond builder (Guild; builder unverified)
- Other Korean contractors (Epiphone; unverified)
- Peerless (Korea; city unverified)
- Samick Korea (Epiphone; city unverified)
- Samick or SPG (Korea; builder disputed)
- World Musical Instrument Co., Incheon
- USA
- Epiphone NYC factory
- Epiphone Philadelphia factory
- Fender Corona
- Gibson Bozeman (acoustic plant)
- Gibson Kalamazoo downtown sites (pre-1917)
- Gibson Memphis (Lt. George W. Lee Ave)
- Gibson Nashville (Massman Dr)
- Gretsch Booneville AR
- Gretsch Brooklyn (60 Broadway)
- Gretsch De Queen AR (alternative claim)
- Guild Hoboken
- Guild NYC workshop
- Guild Oxnard
- Guild Tacoma
- Guild Westerly
- Harmony Chicago factory (address unverified)
- Ibanez LA Custom Shop
- Kalamazoo 225 Parsons St (1917 Gibson building)
- Kalamazoo Parsons St / Eleanor St (Epiphone)
- Martin 510 Sycamore Street
- Martin Nazareth homestead tract
- Martin North Street plant (NRHP)
- Martin NYC shop
- New Hartford CT (Kaman/Ovation plant)
- PRS Annapolis
- PRS Stevensville (Kent Island)
- Sound Projects Co., Cicero
- Taylor American Dream / Westland (Lemon Grove)
- Taylor El Cajon (1980 Gillespie Way)
- Taylor Santee
- US custom builder for Gretsch before Fender Custom Shop (location unverified)
- Country not on record
- Companies
- Alfred Dronge / Guild Guitars, New York
- Arai Trading (Gibson distributor, Japan)
- Avnet, Inc.
- Baillie Lumber
- Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. (Richard Harrison)
- BandLab Technologies
- Caldecott Music Group
- C.A. Spencer Inc.
- C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. (Martin family)
- Charles Summerfield Ltd
- Chicago Musical Instrument Co. (CMI)
- Cordoba Music Group, LLC
- Cor-Tek (Cort Guitars), South Korea
- Crelicam
- Daewon / Muse / Saein / Zaozhuang Saehan (Chinese contractors)
- D.H. Baldwin & Co.
- Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW)
- Dyna Gakki
- Ecam Placages S.A.
- Epiphone, Inc. (Stathopoulo family)
- FAAS Corporation (renamed U.S. Music Corp. 1993)
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
- Fred Gretsch Co.
- Fred Gretsch Enterprises, Ltd. (Fred W. and Dinah Gretsch)
- FujiGen (Fuji Gen Gakki)
- Gemwood Division of GMD International
- GEWA music GmbH
- Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands
- Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. (later Gibson, Inc.)
- Gretsch family / Fred Gretsch Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn
- Groupe Savoie Inc.
- Hagner Musical Instruments
- Harmony Company (independent, Kraus-led)
- Heritage Guitar, Inc.
- Hermitage Hardwood
- Hexcel Corporation
- Holders of the Harmony name after 1975 (unverified)
- Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.
- Hoshino Gakki Ten, Inc.
- Hoshino Shoten (Nagoya)
- Hoshino (U.S.A.) Inc.
- Jishnu Exports
- Julius Breckwoldt & Son
- Kaman Corporation / Kaman Music Corporation
- KKR-led creditor group (Gibson)
- Madinter
- Management/investor group incl. George Gruhn (legal name unverified)
- Matsumoku Industrial
- Newman Lumber Company
- Norlin Corporation (ECL)
- Overseas Traders
- Pacific Rim Tonewoods
- Paul Reed Smith Guitars (PRS)
- Peerless (Korea)
- Perum Perhutani
- PlazaCorp Realty Advisors (Kalamazoo) and investors
- Posey Manufacturing Co.
- PT BRIK Quality Services
- PT Cort Indonesia
- PT Equality Indonesia
- PT Samick Indonesia
- PT Wildwood
- River Works Ltd.
- Robinson Lumber Company
- Samick Musical Instruments
- SCS Global Services
- Sears, Roebuck and Co.
- Sunstex Co., Ltd.
- Tama Seisakusho
- Taylor Guitars ESOP
- Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug)
- Teisco
- Terada Gakki
- The Harmony Company (Wilhelm Schultz), Chicago
- Vista Musical Instruments
- West Coast Arborists, Inc.
- Westheimer Corporation (Northbrook, IL)
- World Musical Instrument Co. (WMIC)
- Yamaha Corporation
- Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc.
- Yamaha Music Manufacturing Indonesia (YMMI)
- Yamano Gakki (Gibson distributor, Japan)
- Year by year
- Sources
- Wikipedia: wiki/Taylor Guitars
- bluebookofguitarvalues: guitar amplifiers/manufacturers/guild
- jedistar: guild
- Wikipedia: wiki/Gretsch
- blogspot: 2026/04/ovation solid body electric guitars.html
- Wikipedia: wiki/Guild Guitar Company
- guitarsite: news/features/fender ends ovation usa production
- the-nature-of-music: 2024/07/25/from rotors to roundbacks charlie kaman and ovation guitars
- glencampbellforums: viewtopic.php?t=341
- theguitarmarketplace: the history of ovation guitar company aerospace innovation meets acoustic guitar design
- fuzzfaced: squier china indonesia en.html
- Wikipedia: wiki/Cort Guitars
- Wikipedia: wiki/Samick
- fandom: wiki/Epiphone
- the-nature-of-music: 2025/11/04/cort in the act industrial scale guitar making and worker exploitation
- musicradar: news/the story of prss se guitar line
- kalamazoocountry: new owners for heritage guitars in kalamazoo
- chicagomusicexchange: blogs/news/inside heritage guitars
- musicradar: news/gibson pleased with end of heritage guitars legal case but has either company actuall
- aeonicfrets: blogs/the bench/heritage h 150 vs gibson les paul standard
- premierguitar: artists/cordoba music group acquires guild
- acousticmusic: research/guitar information/large shop guitar builders/guild
- blogspot: 2025/11/the convoluted history of guild guitars.html
- fender: newsroom/news/408
- yamahamusicians: yamaha guitar group announces acquisition of cordoba music group
- yamaha: en/news release/files/news/23020701/pdf/2302070101.pdf
- bluebookofguitarvalues: electric guitars/manufacturers/guild
- mmone: guild guitars
- guitar: features/a brief history of guild guitars
- fandom: wiki/Guild Guitar Company
- acousticguitarforum: forums/showthread.php?p=5240671
- guitarreviewed: posts/7d090c8ea9b256752ae03e3a1476b661
- umgf: the journey of the guild brand t233597.html
- gretschguitars: support/history
- acousticmusic: guitar music research/guitar information/large shop guitar builders/gretsch
- bluebookofguitarvalues: acoustic guitars/manufacturers/gretsch
- reverb: news/the rebirth of gretsch guitars
- gretschguitars: 2014/01/ten years of the gretsch custom shop
- guitarhaven: gretsch pages/the%20gretsch%20story.html
- reverb: news/how to date a gretsch guitar
- Wikipedia: wiki/Bigsby Electric Guitars
- bigsby: 2019/01/13/fender musical instruments corporation announces acquisition of bigsby
- chicagomusicexchange: blogs/news/the evolution of the gretsch sound
- jedistar: gretsch 2/amp
- gretsch-talk: threads/jt japan terada but.7556
- chasingguitars: gretsch history
- gretsch-talk: threads/gretsch korean plants.105525
- gretsch-talk: threads/electromatic serial numbers.15677
- gretsch-talk: threads/what year did electromatic production move from korea to china.218618
- guitar: reviews/electric guitar/gretsch shootout g2420t streamliner g5420t electromatic g6120t pla
- premierguitar: gretsch releases the streamliner series
- gretsch-talk: threads/guitars made in indonesia pt 1.200410
- Wikipedia: wiki/Gretsch White Falcon
- heritageownersclub: forums/topic/35999 heritage history
- Wikipedia: wiki/Heritage Guitars
- Wikipedia: wiki/Epiphone
- guitarinsite: epiphone factories
- Wikipedia: wiki/Chicago Musical Instruments
- Wikipedia: wiki/Gibson (guitar company)
- fandom: wiki/Epiphone
- fandom: wiki/Epiphone
- Wikipedia: wiki/Epiphone Texan
- Wikipedia: wiki/Epiphone 5102T / EA 250
- Wikipedia: wiki/FUJIGEN
- guitarlobby: where are epiphone guitars made
- Wikipedia: wiki/Epiphone Rivoli
- encyclopedia: books/politics and business magazines/cf martin co inc
- Wikipedia: wiki/C. F. Martin %26 Company
- moravianmusic: topics of interest/martin c f guitars
- bluegrasstoday: original martin factory added to national register of historic places
- guitar: features/martin guitar history
- themunicipal: 2023/12/stringing along at the martin guitar factory and museum
- Wikipedia: wiki/Martin D 28
- Wikipedia: wiki/Martin D 45
- folkwaymusic: museum/martin guitars/1969 martin d28 0119
- umgf: 1969 made d 28s t194984.html
- acousticguitarforum: forums/showthread.php?t=290022
- slickdeals: f/18215926 taylor 317e grand pacific dreadnought acoustic electric guitar w hardshell case
- taylorguitars: issue/2021 issue 2/cover story/keeping good company
- musicinstrumentnews: 2021/01/11/taylor guitars transitions ownership to its employees
- taylorguitars: projects/ebony in cameroon 2
- ranchandcoast: people/taylor guitars celebrates 50 years
- assemblymag: articles/98037 hand craftsmanship meets high tech at taylor guitars
- kpbs: podcasts/the finest/how taylor guitars changed the guitar industry and helped revitalize a
- taylorguitars: about/50th anniversary timeline
- blogspot: 2026/03/taylor guitars history and current.html
- businessincameroon: public management/0910 16936 taylor guitars crelicam move to secure ebony supplies in came
- Wikipedia: wiki/Hoshino Gakki
- blogspot: 2008/03/ibanez.html
- Wikipedia: wiki/Ibanez Iceman
- fandom: wiki/Ibanez
- Wikipedia: wiki/Ibanez
- Wikipedia: wiki/List of Japanese OEM guitar manufacturers
- Wikipedia: wiki/Ibanez RG
- Wikipedia: wiki/Ibanez GIO
- fandom: wiki/PRS Guitars
- crutchfield: learn/prs guitars usa factory tour.html
- Wikipedia: wiki/PRS Guitars
- bluesangelmusic: brands/prs guitars
- thomann: blog/en/gear/prs guitars history models and which guitar is best for you
- Gibson Brands chapter 11 docket: Notice of Effective Date
- Gibson emerges from bankruptcy (Oct 23, 2018)
- Gibson Brands requested court protection from its creditors (May 1, 2018)
- Ovation sold to Drum Workshop (Jan 6, 2015)
- FMIC announces KMC Music sale of Ovation to DW (Jan 6, 2015); KMC sold to JAM Industries (Feb 12, 2015)
- Drum Workshop acquires Ovation (Jan 7, 2015)
- Fender to buy Kaman Music Corp.
- Kaman Corp. press release exhibit: agreement to sell Kaman Music Corporation to FMIC (2007)
- KMCMusicorp
- Hamer Guitars
- Harmony Company
- Bigsby Electric Guitars
- Fender to close Ovation factory in Connecticut
- Fender to cease US production of Ovation guitars
- Ovation New Hartford reopening
- GEWA purchases Ovation Guitars
- Ovation ownership transfer to GEWA (Dec 22, 2020)
- PRS staff post: moved into the Stevensville factory in January 1996
- PRS S2 Series launch release (July 9, 2013)
- Yamaha Guitar Group press release 2023-02-06
- A brief history of Harmony guitars
- Harmony guitars import line (blog, 2020)
- Harmony history thread
- Harmony Company
- Southeast Asian Guitar Wood Sourcing (background study, attached by the user)
- Guild (manufacturer history) - Blue Book of Guitar Values
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation announces intent to sell Guild brand to Cordoba Music Group
- Guild in the Post-Fender Era
- Cordoba, FMIC finalize sale of Guild Guitars
- Avnet Centennial: 100 Years of Making History
- GretschTech: The Baldwin Era
- The Story of Gretsch
- Changes at Heritage Guitar roil staff luthiers
- Restoring Gibson legacy: Kalamazoo Heritage Guitars renovating historic plant
- Gibson responds to Heritage Guitars' legal action
- Gibson statement regarding Heritage Guitar
- Singapore's BandLab Technologies rebrands as Caldecott Music Group
- Caldecott Music Group
- Harmony and Heritage Guitars owner Vista Musical Instruments appoints new managing director
- How Gibson rescued Epiphone in the late-1950s
- Epiphone history 1957-present (Gibson era) - Blue Book of Guitar Values
- Gibson Brands Emerges from Chapter 11
- A Family Business (The Martin Story)
- C. F. Martin & Co. Announces Retirements & New Leadership Appointments
- C F Martin Co Inc (International Directory of Company Histories)
- Martin Guitar CEO Chris Martin IV announces retirement
- Taylor Transitions to 100% Employee Ownership Through an ESOP
- Taylor Guitars ESOP article
- Sustainable Ebony
- The Ebony Project: Preserving the Music of the Forest (PDF)
- 特集！Ibanezインタビュー！～歴史編～ (Ibanez interview: history)
- Ibanez (Ibanez Wiki)
- Guitar Heaven: Paul Reed Smith Makes Guitars
- Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 423 F.3d 539 (6th Cir. 2005)
- PRS media room
- A Closer Look at the 1985 PRS Serial Number 5
- Kaman Corporation Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2007
- Kaman Corporation Form 10-K for fiscal year 2008
- Fender Musical Instruments Corporation Announces Sale of KMC Music's Percussion Brands and Ovation Guitars to Drum Workshop, Inc.
- Fender sells Ovation brand to Drum Workshop
- Ovation Guitars joins the GEWA music family of brands
- Bloomfield instrument distributor moves HQ
- Kaman Music Corporation (company history)
- Westheimer Corporation president Goldstein to retire March 2016
- Harmony acquires Stella Guitars
- Department Store Guitar History: The Long Shadow of the Sears Harmony
- Harmony history
- Gretsch (electric guitars manufacturer page) - Blue Book of Guitar Values
- Fender Musical Instruments Corp. Form S-1 (2012)
- Kaman Corp. 8-K exhibit 99.1 (Ovation/KMC sale closing)
- A Brief History of PRS Guitars
- DW Drums to reopen historic Ovation factory
- GEWA Music acquires Ovation Guitars
- HARMONY trademark registration 71688732
- Trademark dispute heading back to court (Harmony)
- Guild - Acoustic Music (large shop guitar builders)
- Westerly Guild forum thread (post by Jim McConkey)
- Fender Announces Free Public Visitor Center and Factory Tours
- Tacoma Guitars
- OVATION INSTRUMENTS - Superfund Site Profile
- Gretsch History
- 株式会社寺田楽器 recruitment page (company-supplied 所在地)
- 国税庁法人番号公表サイト: 株式会社ダイナ楽器 (法人番号1100001019111)
- フジゲン(株) 会社概要 (本社所在地)
- PT Samick Indonesia (Panjiva supplier profile)
- PT Cort Indonesia (Panjiva supplier profile)
- Heritage Guitars - About Us (site footer)
- NY Epi Reg - The Unofficial New York Epiphone Registry (timeline)
- 松本市の公園一覧: 南部公園 (address); factory-to-park link from Matsumoku Industrial Company article
- Qingdao Gibson Musical Instruments (Panjiva supplier profile)
- National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: C.F. Martin & Co.
- Taylor Guitars Contact page
- Factory Tour of PRS Guitars
- World Musical Inst Co Ltd (trade record profile)
- PT. WILDWOOD (supplier profile)
- PRS Guitars opens new dedicated manufacturing facility overseas
- Dalian Cortek Musical Instruments (Panjiva supplier profile)
- The Harmony Company, est. 1892
- Sound Projects Co. (Lectrolab); Chicago / Cicero (IL)
- ISO 14001 certified sites (Overseas Group Companies)
- Prs Guitars (Panjiva importer profile, sample bill of lading 2025-09-17)
- PT Cort Indonesia (Panjiva supplier profile, Groupe Savoie shipments)
- PT Samick Indonesia (Panjiva profile, C.A. Spencer shipments)
- Riverworks (ImportGenius supplier page)
- Ecam Placages S.A. (Panjiva supplier profile)
- Making the Cut (Wood & Steel, 2023 Issue 2)
- Making Taylor Guitars with Urban Ash
- Gemwood (Panjiva supplier profile, consignee C.F. Martin & Company)
- Builder Profile: Heritage Guitar
- George Gruhn on Spruce
- Professor traces origin of guitar wood to Hoquiam
- Acoustical Architecture (Ovation bowl composites)
- Guild Factory Tour (observed 1998-12-09)
- Ebony's Final Frontier (Wood & Steel, Summer 2012)
- Developing a Sustainable Roadmap for Ebony Production in Cameroon (UCLA IoES final report, client Taylor)
- Sustainability, April 20, 2022 (FSC)
- Guild (Acoustic Guitar magazine feature, AG282, hosted by Guild)
- A Brief History of Guild Guitars
- Fender Musical Instruments Company (International Directory of Company Histories)
- Cordoba Music Group Acquires Guild
- The Convoluted History of Guild Guitars
- Guild Guitar Factories
- Fred #4: Fred W. Gretsch – Leading The Return Of 'That Great Gretsch Sound.'
- Baldwin Piano & Organ Company - Company History
- The Gretsch Company Celebrates 125 Years
- A brief history of Gretsch guitars
- Baldwin-United files bankruptcy petition
- Gibson issues formal response to Heritage lawsuit
- Heritage Guitars tradition and evolution under Bandlab
- Docket index, In re Gibson Brands, Inc. (Notice of Effective Date)
- Gibson Brands Plan of Reorganization Confirmed
- Gibson Guitars Names New Leadership And Exit From Bankruptcy
- Gibson Guitar Corp. Becomes Gibson Brands
- TTAB Cancellation No. 92084591, filing 4 (Delaware certificate of amendment, Gibson Brands, Inc. to Gibson, Inc.)
- Gibson Guitar Corp. Company History
- more info about norlin
- brief epiphone history
- Epiphone History: 1863-1957
- EPIPHONE - Trademark Details (reg. 4129178)
- Hoshino Gakki Co. Ltd. Company History
- 星野楽器(株) インターネットエラベル企業情報
- 50 years of Ibanez in the USA
- IBANEZ - Trademark Details (reg. 0984518)
- Hoshino Gakki (Wikipedia)
- GEWA purchases Ovation Guitars
- FMIC Sells KMC Music Wholesale Distribution Business to JAM Industries
- Production of Ovation Guitars to Resume in New Hartford
- NAMM 2018: Harmony guitars back, along with new amps
- Melody Instrument Company
- Taylor Guitars company history (timeline)
- About Taylor Guitars
- Taylor Guitars Transitions Ownership To Its Employees
- Taylor Guitars' Cameroon Ebony Mill: Last Frontier
- Taylor Guitars took a big risk by investing in an African sawmill (Business Insider, via LSU PDF mirror)
- Martin press release: Thomas Ripsam appointed CEO
- LEI record, C. F. MARTIN & CO., INC.
- Inside Annapolis: Paul Reed Smith feature (2007)
- Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Limited Partnership (Maryland) - trademark owner page
- guitarplayer: gretsch 140th anniversary double platinum collection
- fender newsroom: gretsch celebrates 15 years of the gretsch custom shop
- bluebookofguitarvalues: gretsch company history 1973-present
- guitarinsite: gretsch factories
- craveguitars: brands gretsch six-string synopsis
- Heritage history (Heritage Owners Club forum thread)
- Heritage Guitar, Inc. v. Gibson Brands, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-229 (W.D. Mich.), opinion of 6 Jun 2022
- Heritage Guitar Teams with BandLab
- Caldecott Music appoints David Nam Le as MD of Vista Musical and Jon Bahr as Senior Advisor at BandLab
- Yamaha Guitar Group press release: acquisition of Cordoba Music Group
- Yamaha Guitar Group acquires Cordoba Music Group
- Gruhn, George (biography)
- Canadian pension fund backs Taylor Guitars' conversion to employee ownership
- Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A Amendment No. 5
- Ovation Guitars acquired by GEWA Music
- Ovation Guitars has been acquired by GEWA Music
- Drum Workshop purchases Latin Percussion, Toca Percussion, Gretsch Drums, Gibraltar Hardware, and KAT Percussion from Fender's KMC subsidiary
- Gibson Guitar Corp. non-prosecution agreement (Lacey Act), statement of facts
- Wikipedia: Norlin Corporation
- Norlin Corporation court opinion (1984 Piezo Electric Products / Rooney, Pace bid)
- Gibson to move HQ to Cummins Station
- Gibson to sell downtown Memphis factory
- Gibson FedEx Memphis factory
- Gibson, Inc. (Kalamazoo local history)
- Gibson guitars manufacturing expansion, Bozeman, Montana
- Gibson walking from Memphis as hollowbody production moves to Nashville
- Arai / Gibson (Aria Pro II vintage vault)
- History of Orville by Gibson and Epiphone Japan
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