Guitar Story
Guitar Story
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Blue Book of Guitar Values. Graded secondary. Open the original.
Price guide (secondary under rule 5). Excerpts in claims were returned by WebFetch's summarizer, not read from the raw page; re-verify verbatim against an archived copy before accepting. Not yet archived. Its text gives Faas purchase as January 1989, which differs from the 1988 start on BC006 (K002).
4 facts on this site cite this source, across Guild. A quoted passage is the text the fact relies on.
| Fact | Years | Records | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred Dronge / Guild Guitars, New York owns Guild[1] | 1952–1966 | Guild, Alfred Dronge / Guild Guitars, New York | Guild was founded in 1952 by Alfred Dronge (who did hire great guitar builders). |
| Avnet, Inc. owns Guild[1] | 1966–1986 | Guild, Avnet, Inc. | In 1966, electronic parts producer Avnet Inc. bought Guild Musical Instruments, and Alfred Dronge stayed on as president. … In mid-August of 1986, Avnet sold Guild to a management/investment group from New England and Tennessee. |
| Management/investor group incl. George Gruhn (legal name unverified) owns Guild[1] | 1986–1989 | Guild, Management/investor group incl. George Gruhn (legal name unverified) | defaulted on bank obligations in November of 1988, leading to a court supervised financial restructuring. |
| FAAS Corporation, New Berlin WI (later U.S. Music Corporation; rename date unverified) owns Guild[1] | 1989–1995 | Guild, FAAS Corporation, New Berlin WI (later U.S. Music Corporation; rename date unverified) | The Faas Corporation of New Berlin, WI (now U.S. Musical Corporation) bought Guild in January, 1989. |
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.
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