Top Guitar Brands Research Paper

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Top Guitar Brands Have you ever wanted to start playing guitar? Have you ever wondered what guitar brand to pick up if you ever wanted to start playing? There are many different brands to go about choosing from. The four most common and popular are laid out to be Gibson, Fender, Ibanez, and Epiphone. Have you ever wondered who started these companies, and how they got their names or their most popular guitars? These 4 brands have each been very successful and valuable for the past handful of decades. They are all very unique and beautiful in their own ways. These 4 brands started a long time ago and are each made in their own proper way to inherit a style that separates the rest from the best. Also these four guitars brands have been used …show more content…

They started in 1946 by a man named Clarence Leonidas fender. The Fender also has a very iconic guitar, being the fender Stratocaster selling from 350 to over 1 grand. Something else about Fender is that they sold the company in the year 1965 to CBS for roughly 13 million dollars, and then sold again to a group of employees from CBS. Fender is still making annual sales profiting around 200 million a year. Some other interesting facts about the Fender Company is that they were affiliated with automobiles and motor …show more content…

It was founded by a man named Anastasios Stathopoulos in the year 1957. Epiphone is now sold to the Gibson brand company. Epiphone was always on top of their business, they were always trying their hardest to be the very best. Jim Rosenberg was the president of Epiphone and he once stated "Epiphone is still the House of Stathopoulo (Epiphone 140). We're designers. We're players. We're mavericks. And, we're passionate about everything we do." Another quote by Les Paul once said "Epiphone always made a good guitar," And that is after all what a good guitarist is looking for. Epiphone has profits of around 70-120 million dollars a year in all of their