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Mosrite

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Mosrite is an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. [1]

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Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney, who then recruited bassist Mike Starr and lead vocalist Layne Staley.

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Art Greenhaw

Art Greenhaw is a Grammy Award-Winning recording artist, producer and mixing engineer, having won the Grammy Award in 2003 in New York City for "Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album of the Year" for the album WE CALLED HIM MR.

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Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bigsby vibrato tailpiece

The Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (or Bigsby for short) is a type of mechanical vibrato device for electric guitar designed by Paul A. Bigsby.

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Bolt-on neck

Bolt-on neck is a method of guitar (or similar stringed instrument) construction that involves joining a guitar neck and body using screws or bolts, as opposed to glue as with set-in neck joints.

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Brass

Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.

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Brian Causey

Brian Causey is an American musician, composer and singer.

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Burke County, North Carolina

Burke County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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C. J. Ramone

Christopher Joseph Ward (born October 8, 1965), better known as C. J. Ramone, is an American musician best known for working as the bassist, backing and occasional lead vocalist of the punk rock group the Ramones from 1989 to 1996.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Danelectro

Danelectro is a US designer and importer of musical instruments and accessories, specializing in guitars, bass guitars, amplifiers, and effects units.

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Dave Alexander (musician)

David Michael Alexander (June 3, 1947 – February 10, 1975) was an American musician, best known as the original bassist for influential protopunk band The Stooges.

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Davie Allan

Davie Allan is an American guitarist best known for his work on soundtracks to various teen and biker movies in the 1960s.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Downey, California

Downey is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States, southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

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Drivin N Cryin

Drivin' N Cryin' is an American hard rock/Southern rock band from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Eastwood Guitars

Eastwood Guitars is a Canadian company founded by Michael Robinson which primarily manufactures vintage-style electric guitars.

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Efrim Menuck

Efrim Manuel Menuck (born 1970) is a Canadian musician involved with a number of Montreal-based bands, most notably Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Fender Telecaster

The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele, is the world's first commercially successfulLes Paul had built a prototype solid body electric guitar known as "The Log" in the 1940s, but could not market his invention.

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Fred "Sonic" Smith

Frederick Dewey Smith (September 14, 1948 – November 4, 1994), known professionally as Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an American guitarist, best known as a member of the influential and political Detroit rock band, the MC5.

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Fret

A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument.

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Gibson Les Paul

The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitar Player

Guitar Player is an American popular magazine for guitarists, founded in 1967 in San Jose, California, United States.

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Guyatone

Guyatone is a Japanese manufacturing company which makes electric guitars, guitar amplifiers, and effects pedals.

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Iron Butterfly

Iron Butterfly is an American rock band best known for the 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", providing a dramatic sound that led the way towards the development of hard rock and heavy metal music.

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Jerry Cantrell

Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter for the rock band Alice in Chains.

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Joe Maphis

Joe Maphis, born Otis W. Maphis (May 12, 1921 – June 27, 1986), was an American country music guitarist.

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Johnny and the Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes were an American instrumental rock and roll band from Toledo, Ohio, that had a number of hits, especially in the UK, in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Johnny Ramone

John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004), known professionally as Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being the guitarist for punk rock band the Ramones.

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Jonas Ridge, North Carolina

Jonas Ridge is an unincorporated community in Burke County, North Carolina, United States.

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Kevin Shields

Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an American-born Irish musician, singer-songwriter, composer, and producer, best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the band My Bloody Valentine.

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Kevn Kinney

Kevin Kinney, known professionally as Kevn Kinney (born March 12, 1961), is an American vocalist and guitarist, best known as lead singer and guitarist of Atlanta rock band Drivin N Cryin.

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Leachville, Arkansas

Leachville is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.

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Lee Dorman

Douglas Lee Dorman (September 15, 1942 – December 21, 2012) was an American bass guitarist best known as a member of the rock band Iron Butterfly.

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Light Crust Doughboys

The Light Crust Doughboys is an American Western swing band from Texas organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Luthier

A luthier is someone who builds or repairs string instruments generally consisting of a neck and a sound box.

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Man or Astro-man?

Man or Astro-man? is an American surf rock group that formed in Auburn, Alabama, in the early 1990s and came to prominence over the following decade.

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MC5

MC5 was an American rock band from Lincoln Park, Michigan, formed in 1964.

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Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Multi-neck guitar

A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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My Bloody Valentine (band)

My Bloody Valentine are a rock band formed in Dublin in 1983.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Nokie Edwards

Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards (May 9, 1935 – March 12, 2018) was an American musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Oildale, California

Oildale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Paul Bigsby

Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899–1968) was an American inventor, designer, and pioneer of the solid body electric guitar.

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Phone connector (audio)

A phone connector, also known as phone jack, audio jack, headphone jack or jack plug, is a family of electrical connectors typically used for analog audio signals.

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Pickup (music technology)

A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Pumpkin Center, Kern County, California

Pumpkin Center is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.

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Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker International Corporation is an electric string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

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Ricky Wilson (American musician)

Ricky Helton Wilson (March 19, 1953 – October 12, 1985) was an American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of rock band the B-52's.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock Lobster

"Rock Lobster" is a song written by Fred Schneider and Ricky Wilson, two members of The B-52's.

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Roger Rossmeisl

Roger Rossmeisl (1927 in Kiel - 1979 in Berlin) was a German luthier who designed electric guitars in the 1950s and '60s for the US companies Rickenbacker and Fender.

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Semie Moseley

Semie Moseley (June 13, 1935 – August 7, 1992) was a luthier and the founder of Mosrite.

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Set-in neck

Set-in neck is a method of guitar (or similar stringed instrument) construction that involves joining neck and body with a tightly fitted mortise-and-tenon or dovetail joint, secured with some sort of adhesive.

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Sound hole

A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective.

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Stoptail bridge

A stoptail bridge (sometimes also called a stopbar bridge) used on a solid body electric guitar or archtop guitar is a specialized kind of fixed hard-tail bridge.

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Sustain

In music, sustain is a parameter of musical sound over time.

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Susumu Hirasawa

(born April 1, 1954) is a Japanese musician and composer.

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Takeshi Terauchi

, also known as Terry, is a Japanese instrumental rock guitarist.

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The B-52's

The B-52s (styled as The B-52's prior to 2008) are an American rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.

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The Bakersfield Californian

The Bakersfield Californian is a daily newspaper serving Bakersfield, California and surrounding Kern County in the state's San Joaquin Valley.

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The Collins Kids

The Collins Kids are an American rockabilly duo featuring Lawrencine "Lorrie" Collins (born May 7, 1942) and her younger brother Lawrence "Larry" Collins (born October 4, 1944).

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The Stooges

The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander.

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The Ventures

The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington.

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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra

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Thomas Organ Company

The Thomas Organ Company is an American manufacturer of electronic keyboards and a one-time holder of the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer.

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Tumbleweed (band)

Tumbleweed is an Australian rock group formed in 1990 in Tarrawanna.

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Twelve-string guitar

The 12-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Univox

Univox was a musical instrument brand of Unicord Corporation from the early 1960s, when they purchased the Amplifier Corporation of America of Westbury, New York and began to market a line of guitar amplifiers.

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Univox Hi-Flier

The Univox Hi-Flier was an electric guitar manufactured by Univox (later Unicord) from 1968 to 1978.

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What the Hell Have I

"What the Hell Have I" is a track by the American rock band Alice in Chains.

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Yūzō Kayama

is a Japanese popular musician, singer-songwriter and actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosrite

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