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Framus

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Framus is a German string instrument manufacturing company, that existed from 1946 until going bankrupt in 1975. [1]

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  1. 114 relations: Accept (band), Acoustic bass guitar, Alex G, Alice in Chains, Amplifier, Arcade Fire, Archtop guitar, Baiersdorf, Banjo, Bass guitar, Bavaria, Bill Lawrence (guitar maker), Bill Wyman, Blend word, Bohemia, Bon Jovi, Brian Locking, Bubenreuth, Cello, Charles Mingus, Classical guitar, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Dan Armstrong, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Devin Townsend, Double bass, Dumping (pricing policy), Earl Slick, Electric guitar, Electric upright bass, Erlangen, Framus, Franconia, Franconian Switzerland, George Harrison, Germany, Gibson Flying V, GmbH, Grunge, Guitar, Guitar amplifier, Guitar Player, Guy Pratt, Hammered dulcimer, Heavy metal music, Heinz Burt, Help!, I've Just Seen a Face, ... Expand index (64 more) »

  2. Banjo manufacturing companies
  3. Companies based in Saxony

Accept (band)

Accept is a German heavy metal band from Solingen, formed in 1976 by lead guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, singer Udo Dirkschneider and bassist Peter Baltes.

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Acoustic bass guitar

The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than, a steel-string acoustic guitar.

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Alex G

Alexander Giannascoli (born February 3, 1993), better known by his stage names Alex G or, formerly, (Sandy) Alex G, is an American musician, producer, and singer-songwriter.

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Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AIC) is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987.

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Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).

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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara.

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Archtop guitar

An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players.

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Baiersdorf

Baiersdorf is a town in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, in northern Bavaria, Germany.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bill Lawrence (guitar maker)

Bill Lawrence (born Willi Lorenz Stich; March 24, 1931 – November 2, 2013) was a pickup and guitar designer.

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Bill Wyman

William George Wyman (né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who was the bass guitarist with the rock band the Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993.

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Blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey.

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Brian Locking

Brian "Licorice" Locking (22 December 1938 – 8 October 2020) was an English musician and songwriter known for his tenure as bassist with The Wildcats in 1959 and The Shadows, between 1962 and 1963.

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Bubenreuth

Bubenreuth is a municipality in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Dan Armstrong

Dan Kent Armstrong (October 7, 1934 June 8, 2004) was an American guitarist, luthier, and session musician.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd.

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Devin Townsend

Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Dumping (pricing policy)

Dumping, in economics, is a form of predatory pricing, especially in the context of international trade.

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Earl Slick

Earl Slick (born Frank Madeloni; October 1, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist best known for his collaborations with David Bowie, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Robert Smith.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.

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Electric upright bass

The electric upright bass (EUB) is an instrument that can perform the musical function of a double bass.

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Erlangen

Erlangen (Erlang, Erlanga) is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany.

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Framus

Framus is a German string instrument manufacturing company, that existed from 1946 until going bankrupt in 1975. Framus and Framus are banjo manufacturing companies, Companies based in Saxony, guitar manufacturing companies and musical instrument manufacturing companies of Germany.

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Franconia

Franconia (Franken,; East Franconian: Franggn; Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect (German: Ostfränkisch).

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Franconian Switzerland

Franconian Switzerland (Fränkische Schweiz) is an upland in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany and a popular tourist retreat.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gibson Flying V

The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model that was originally introduced by Gibson in 1958.

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GmbH

(), literally 'company with limited liability' (abbreviated as GmbH in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and as Ges.m.b.H. in Austria), is a type of legal entity in German-speaking countries.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Guitar amplifier

A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet.

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Guitar Player

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

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Guy Pratt

Guy Adam Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is a British bassist.

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Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Heinz Burt

Heinz Burt (24 July 1942 – 7 April 2000) was a German-born British rock and roll bassist and singer who performed under the stage name Heinz.

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Help!

Help! is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles and the soundtrack to their film of the same name.

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I've Just Seen a Face

"I've Just Seen a Face" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.

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It's Only Love

"It's Only Love" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.

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Ivor Mairants

Ivor Mairants (18 July 1908 – 20 February 1998) was a Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer.

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Jan Akkerman

Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946) is a Dutch guitarist.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jet Harris

Terence "Jet" Harris (6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011) was an English rock and roll musician.

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Jim Hall (musician)

James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 – December 10, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Kassel

Kassel (in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, in central Germany.

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Killadelphia (video album)

Killadelphia is a 2005 live DVD from American metal band Lamb of God, released on Epic Records and shot and directed by Doug Spangenberg.

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Kommanditgesellschaft

A Kommanditgesellschaft (abbreviated KG,; from Kommandite + Gesellschaft) is the German name for a limited partnership business entity and is used in German, Belgian, Dutch, Austrian, and some other European legal systems.

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Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who served as the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963.

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Kristof Hahn

Kristof Hahn (also known as Christoph Hahn) (born 6 February 1959) is a German guitarist, composer and translator.

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Lamb of God (band)

Lamb of God is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap.

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Luby (Cheb District)

Luby (Schönbach) is a town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Luthier

A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.

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Markneukirchen

Markneukirchen is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany, close to the Czech border.

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Möhrendorf

Möhrendorf is a town in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Milky Chance

Milky Chance is a German rock band originating in Kassel.

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Motörhead

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in London in 1975 by bassist and lead vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Dolls

New York Dolls were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1971.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than other steel guitar designs.

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Peter Kraus

Peter Kraus (born 18 March 1939) is an Austrian-German singer and actor.

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Phil Campbell (musician)

Philip Anthony Campbell (born 7 May 1961) is a Welsh rock musician, best known as the guitarist in Motörhead from 1984 to 2015.

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Phil X

Theofilos Xenidis (born March 10, 1966), better known as Phil X, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pretzfeld

Pretzfeld is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Richard Reed Parry

Richard Reed Parry (born October 4, 1977) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, best known as a core member of the Grammy Award-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire, where he plays a wide variety of instruments, often switching between guitar, double bass, drums, celesta, keyboards, and accordion.

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Rik Emmett

Richard Gordon Emmett (born July 10, 1953) is a vocalist, guitarist, and member of the Canadian hard rock band Triumph.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Sébastien Lefebvre

Sébastien Lefebvre (born June 5, 1981) is a Canadian musician, who is best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock band Simple Plan.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Simple Plan

Simple Plan is a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec.

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Steel-string acoustic guitar

The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.

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Stevie Salas

Stevie Salas (born November 17, 1964) is an American guitarist, author, television host, music director, record producer, film composer, and former advisor of contemporary music at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Sudeten Germans

German Bohemians (Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer; čeští Němci a moravští Němci, i.e. German Bohemians and German Moravians), later known as Sudeten Germans (Sudetendeutsche; sudetští Němci), were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part of Czechoslovakia.

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Sudetenland

The Sudetenland (Czech and Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.

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Swans (band)

Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira.

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Tenor guitar

The tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in San Diego, California, that has run since 1868.

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Triumph (band)

Triumph were a Canadian hard rock band formed in 1975 that was popular during the late 1970s and the 1980s, building on its reputation and success as a live band.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Truss rod

The truss rod is a component of a guitar or other stringed instrument that stabilizes the lengthwise forward curvature (also called relief) of the neck.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele, approximately), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vacuum tube

A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.

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Vienna Boys' Choir

The Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) is a choir of boy sopranos and altos based in Vienna, Austria.

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Vintage Guitar (magazine)

Vintage Guitar is an American magazine that focuses on vintage and classic guitars, amplifiers, effects, and related equipment, as well as notable guitarists from all genres and eras.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Warwick (company)

Warwick is a German bass guitar manufacturing company. Framus and Warwick (company) are Companies based in Saxony and musical instrument manufacturing companies of Germany.

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When I'm Sixty-Four

"When I'm Sixty-Four" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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William DuVall

William Bradley DuVall (born September 6, 1967) is an American musician best known as the current co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains.

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Wolf Hoffmann

Wolf Hoffmann (born 10 December 1959) is a German musician, primarily known as the guitarist and last remaining original member of heavy metal band Accept since 1976.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.

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Zither

Zithers (from the Greek word cithara) are a class of stringed instruments.

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See also

Banjo manufacturing companies

Companies based in Saxony

References

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

Also known as Fred A. Wilfer, Fred Wilfer.

, It's Only Love, Ivor Mairants, Jan Akkerman, Japan, Jet Harris, Jim Hall (musician), John Lennon, Kassel, Killadelphia (video album), Kommanditgesellschaft, Konrad Adenauer, Kristof Hahn, Lamb of God (band), Lap steel guitar, Luby (Cheb District), Lute, Luthier, Mandolin, Markneukirchen, Möhrendorf, Milky Chance, Motörhead, Nashville, Tennessee, New York City, New York Dolls, Paul McCartney, Pedal steel guitar, Peter Kraus, Phil Campbell (musician), Phil X, Pink Floyd, Pretzfeld, Privately held company, Richard Reed Parry, Rik Emmett, Rock and roll, Sébastien Lefebvre, Shanghai, Simple Plan, Steel-string acoustic guitar, Stevie Salas, String instrument, Sudeten Germans, Sudetenland, Swans (band), Tenor guitar, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Triumph (band), Trumpet, Truss rod, Ukulele, United States, Vacuum tube, Vienna Boys' Choir, Vintage Guitar (magazine), Viola, Violin, Warwick (company), When I'm Sixty-Four, William DuVall, Wolf Hoffmann, World War II, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Zither.