Not much information on the Tabur brand. If you have any info please contact me and I will add it. Thanks. Find Tabu guitars on eBay

Yamaki began in 1967 when Kazuyuki Teradaira left Zenon to produce classical guitars. They now make and supply parts for other Japanese guitar companies such as Daion and Washburn. Yamaki guitar dating reference Find Yamaki guitars on eBay

Not much information on the Lonestar brand. If you have any info please contact me and I will add it. Thanks. Find Lonestar guitars on eBay

The Biltmore brand had guitars built and suplied by Harmony and were sold by the Vitak-Elsnic sheet music company in the 1930s. Biltmore guitar dating reference Find Biltmore guitars on eBay

Harmony was founded in 1895 in Chicago and are mostly remembered for their entry level guitars of the 1950s and 1960s. Their early instruments can be easily confused with instruments by Regal and Lyon & Healy By the late 1930s their archtop acoustic guitars had many features that they would retain through the 1960s. harmony […]

Oahu was a music publishing house and introduced their own line of musical instruments in the 1920s. These guitars came prinarily from primarily from Kay and Regal manufacturers. In the mid 1930s electric insturment were becoming very poular and Oahu sourced their electrics from Kay and Dickerson. A few amps for Oahu were made by […]

Kay, Kay Kraft and Kamico were a result of the Groeshl Instrument Company of Chicago. In 1921 the company became Stromberg-Voisinet and in 1931 it became Kay Musical Instruments. Stromberg-Voisinet, not to be confused with Stromberg archtop guitars, rarely sold guitars under their own name but sold them to a variety of brands. Kay manufactured […]

The National-Dobro Corporation was founded 1934 merging the National and Dobro companies. In 1942 the company was renamed to Valco. Many of the amplifiers they produced would have the “Valco” name somewhere on the control panel but was never used as a brand name. National and Supro were the two brands owned by Valco and […]

Airline guitars are a great find for vintage guitar collectors because of their lower end price. Airline® Guitars were made in the USA from 1958-68 by VALCO for Montgomery Ward and sold in their department stores. Eastwood Guitars has recently reintroduced the Airline brand name. The most expensive and most famous is the Res-o-Glass model. […]

I am putting together a list of vintage acoustic guitar manufacturers and distributors below. By all means this is not a complete list. I am sure there are many more guitar manufacturers and distributors that I have not yet added or found. If you are looking at a guitar and you are not sure about […]