Guitar Story A Brand Lineage Research Project

Guitar Story

Source: Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A Amendment No. 5 · Guitar Story

Source · company filing

Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A Amendment No. 5

SEC (EDGAR), 2012-07-09. Graded primary. Open the original.

Added 2026-10-15 by llm:claude-sonnet-5-5. Says Kaman Music Corporation is 'now known as KMC Musicorp' and the acquisition was in 2007. Excerpts verified verbatim against the full filing text 2026-10-15: C539. Not archived: SEC refused the Directus URL import on 2026-10-15; a copy is still needed.

What it supports

1 fact on this site cites this source, across Ovation. A quoted passage is the text the fact relies on.

Fact	Years	Records	Passage
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation owns Ovation^[1]	2007–2015	Ovation, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation	since the acquisition of Kaman Music Corporation (now known as KMC Musicorp), or KMC, in 2007

More primary sources

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
Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A Amendment No. 5graded primary
- since the acquisition of Kaman Music Corporation (now known as KMC Musicorp), or KMC, in 2007Fender Musical Instruments Corporation owns Ovation, 2007–2015

See something wrong, or know a better source?