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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]

100 relations: Accept (band), Acoustic bass guitar, Arcade Fire, Archtop guitar, Baiersdorf, Banjo, Bass guitar, Bavaria, Bill Lawrence (guitar maker), Bill Wyman, Bohemian, Bon Jovi, Brian Gregg, Brian Locking, Bubenreuth, Cello, Charles Mingus, Cheb, Classical guitar, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Devin Townsend, Double bass, Earl Slick, Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, Electric guitar, Electric upright bass, Erlangen, Europe, European Union, Forest Stewardship Council, Framus, Franconia, Franconian Switzerland, George Harrison, Germany, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Gibson Flying V, Guitar, Guitar amplifier, Guitar Player, Guy Pratt, Hammered dulcimer, Heavy metal music, Heinz Burt, Ivor Mairants, Jan Akkerman, Jet Harris, Jim Hall (musician), John Lennon, ..., Killadelphia (video album), Kommanditgesellschaft, Konrad Adenauer, Lamb of God (band), Lap steel guitar, Luby (Cheb District), Lute, Mandolin, Markneukirchen, Möhrendorf, Motörhead, Nashville, Tennessee, New York City, New York Dolls, Ore Mountains, Paul McCartney, Pedal steel guitar, Peter Kraus, Phil Campbell (musician), Phil X, Pink Floyd, Premier Guitar, Pretzfeld, Privately held company, Richard Reed Parry, Rock and roll, Sébastien Lefebvre, Shanghai, Simple Plan, Singing, Soviet Union, Steel-string acoustic guitar, Stevie Salas, String instrument, Sudetenland, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Triumph (band), Trumpet, Truss rod, Ukulele, United States, Vintage Guitar (magazine), Viola, Violin, Warwick (company), Willie Adler, Wolf Hoffmann, World War II, Zither. Expand index (50 more) »

Accept (band)

Accept are a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann 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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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Win's younger brother William Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara.

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Archtop guitar

An "archtop guitar" is a hollow steel-stringed acoustic or semiacoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, rockabilly, and psychobilly guitarists.

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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 four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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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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Bavaria

Bavaria (Bavarian and Bayern), officially the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner.

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Bill Lawrence (guitar maker)

Bill Lawrence (born Willi Lorenz Stich on March 24, 1931 in Cologne-Wahn, Germany, died on November 2, 2013 in Southern California, USA) was a recording musician, a pickup designer/maker and guitar designer/maker in the musical instrument industry, designing musical instrument accessories, namely pickups and guitars for Framus, Fender, Gibson, Peavey and other companies from the 1950s to the present.

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Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman (born William George Perks Jr., 24 October 1936) is an English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer.

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Bohemian

A Bohemian is a resident of Bohemia, a region of the Czech Republic or the former Kingdom of Bohemia, a region of the former Crown of Bohemia (lands of the Bohemian Crown).

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Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey.

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Brian Gregg

Brian Gregg (born June 27, 1984) is an American cross-country skier.

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Brian Locking

Brian "Licorice" Locking (born 22 December 1938 in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England) is an English musician and songwriter, who was briefly the bass guitarist with 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 cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Charles Mingus

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

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Cheb

Cheb (Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, with about 33,000 inhabitants.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar (also known as concert guitar, classical acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is the member of the guitar family used in classical music.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Gilmour

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

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Devin Townsend

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

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Earl Slick

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

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Eco-Management and Audit Scheme

The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary environmental management instrument, which was developed in 1993 by the European Commission.

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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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Electric upright bass

The electric upright bass (abbreviated EUB) is an electronically amplified version of the double bass that has a minimal or 'skeleton' body, which greatly reduces the size and weight of the instrument.

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Erlangen

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

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Forest Stewardship Council

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization established in 1993 to promote responsible management of the world’s forests.

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Framus

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

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Franconia

Franconia (Franken, also called Frankenland) is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, locally referred to as fränkisch, is spoken.

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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 guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

A Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (abbreviated GmbH and also GesmbH in Austria) is a type of legal entity very common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (where it is equivalent to a société à responsabilité limitée) and Liechtenstein.

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Gibson Flying V

The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model first released by Gibson in 1958.

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Guitar

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

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Guitar amplifier

A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the weak 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 popular magazine for guitarists, founded in 1967 in San Jose, California, United States.

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Guy Pratt

Guy Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, comedian and actor.

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Hammered dulcimer

The hammered 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.

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Heinz Burt

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

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Ivor Mairants

Ivor Mairants (b. 18 July 1908 c.20 February 1998) was a 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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Jet Harris

Terence "Jet" Harris MBE (6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011) was an English 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 (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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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") 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 (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963.

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Lamb of God (band)

Lamb of God (sometimes abbreviated as LoG) is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer’s lap or otherwise supported.

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Luby (Cheb District)

Luby is a Czech Republic town located in the Cheb District.

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Lute

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

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Mandolin

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

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Markneukirchen

Markneukirchen is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of 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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Motörhead

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in June 1975 by bassist, singer, and songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, who was the sole constant member, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox.

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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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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Dolls

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

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Ore Mountains

The Ore Mountains or Ore Mountain Range (Erzgebirge; Krušné hory; both literally "ore mountains") in Central Europe have formed a natural border between Saxony and Bohemia for around 800 years, from the 12th to the 20th centuries.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs.

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Peter Kraus

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

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Phil Campbell (musician)

Philip Anthony Campbell (born 7 May 1961), better known as Phil Campbell, is a Welsh rock musician.

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Phil X

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

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Pink Floyd

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

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Premier Guitar

Premier Guitar is an American magazine devoted to guitarists.

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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, 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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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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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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Sébastien Lefebvre

Gaétan-Jean Sébastien Lefebvre Pépin (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 (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.

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Simple Plan

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

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Steel-string acoustic guitar

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

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Stevie Salas

Stevie Salas is a Native American guitarist, author, television host, music director, record producer, film composer, and Advisor of Contemporary Music at The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Sudetenland

The Sudetenland (Czech and Sudety; Kraj Sudecki) 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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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing, later renamed tronc. In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90m in pension liabilities. The sale closed on June 18, 2018.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Triumph (band)

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

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Trumpet

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

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Truss rod

The truss rod is part of a guitar or other fretted, stringed-instruments that stabilizes the lengthwise forward curvature (also called relief), of the neck.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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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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Vintage Guitar (magazine)

Vintage Guitar magazine is a consumer publication that focuses on vintage and classic fretted instruments, amplifiers, effects, and related gear, as well as notable players from all genres and eras.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is bowed or played with varying techniques.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Warwick (company)

Warwick is a Germany-based bass guitar manufacturer company.

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Willie Adler

William M. Adler (born January 26, 1976) is the rhythm guitarist in the heavy metal band Lamb of God.

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Wolf Hoffmann

Wolf Hoffmann (born 10 December 1959) is a German guitarist, primarily known as guitarist in the German heavy metal band Accept since 1976.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zither

Zither is a class of stringed instruments.

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References

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

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