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• Brookwood Leather (Mechanicsburg, PA): custom handcrafted leather guitar straps and amp handles
• Couch Guitar Straps (Los Angeles, CA): guitar straps made from automotive and upholstery vinyl or recycled seatbelt material, made by a small company of working musicians.
• Dean Markley Strings (Santa Clara, CA): strings for classical and electric guitars, made in Kalamazoo, MI. Available from local music retailers.
• Peaceland Guitar Rings (Torrance, CA): guitar slides made from brass, stainless, or glass-coated metal combination for a range of tonal possibilities.
• Scratchpad USA (Schaumburg, IL): a removable pad that clings without adhesive to protect guitar finish from scratches and dings caused by belt buckles, zippers, etc.

Audio Equipment [Back to Top]

• Audio by Van Alstine (Woodbury, MN): preamplifiers, amplifiers, digital-to-analog converters, and phase inverters, engineered and "hand built" in USA.
• Ayre Acoustics, Inc. (Boulder, CO): full line of audio and video components, hand-assembled in Boulder.
• Car Audio Factory (Richmond, TX): subwoofer enclosers made in a state of the art factory in Houston.
• Carr Amplifiers (Pittsboro, NC): guitar amplifiers, made by guitarists for guitarists.
• CI Audio (Port Hueneme, CA): headphone amplifiers, monoblock amplifiers, and power supplies.
• Grado Labs (Brooklyn, NY): high-quality headphones and phono cartridges
• KCS Loudspeakers (Sun Prairie, WI): custom horn loudspeakers, made in Wisconsin.
• Manley Labs (Chino, CA): Hi-Fi and professional recording gear, including mixers, preamplifiers, equalizers, limiters, and microphones.
• McIntosh Labs (Binghamton, NY): fine audio and home theater sound systems, still hand-crafted in New York. (Acquired in 2003 by Japanese D&M Holdings, but NY production continues)
• Ohm Acoustics (Brooklyn, NY): high-end speakers for audio and home theater applications.
• Orb Audio (Sherman Oaks, CA): Mod1 and Mod2 satellite speakers for flat screen and home theater applications, handmade in USA. "Small Speakers for Smart People"
• SanGreal (Las Vegas, NV): acoustic instrument amplifiers designed for true reproduction of notes associated with acoustic instruments such as guitars, harps, violins, and pianos
• SVS: speakers and subwoofers for music and home theater, made in their Ohio factory.
• Zinky Electronics (Flagstaff, AZ): electric guitar amplifiers and accessories including tube amps, speaker enclosures, and signal processors

Guitars [Back to Top]

• Carvin Guitars (San Diego, CA): guitars, amplifiers, and pro audio, almost all made in USA
• Collings Guitars (Austin, TX): acoustic and electric guitars, and mandolins, all made in Austin. (Factory tours every Friday.)
• Gibson (Nashville, TN): electric guitars made in Nashville and Memphis, TN; acoustic guitars made in Bozeman, MT. Tours (actual or virtual) are available. ("Songmaker" series are made in Canada.)
• Gadow Guitars (Durham, NC): semi-hollow and solid-body electric guitars and basses, handcrafted in USA.
• Heritage Guitar Inc. (Kalamazoo, MI): beautiful guitars made by many of the craftsmen that made Gibson guitars. Use dealer locator.
• C.F. Martin & Co. (Nazareth, PA): making acoustic guitars in the USA for 175 years, they must be doing something right! (Factory tours too.)
• Taylor Guitars (El Cajon, CA): acoustic and electric guitars since 1974 (tours of the Taylor Factory are available).
• Weber Fine Acoustic Instruments (Logan, MT): acoustic guitars and mandolins
• Kurt Wilson Guitars: electric guitars handcrafted in Illinois from beautiful hardwoods.
• Jon Kammerer Guitars (Keokuk, IA): custom guitars that are really something...I want one, and I don't even play! (He also crafts spectacular inlaid cabinets.)

• American Made Banjo Co. (Stoneham, MA): banjos, parts, and accessories
• Darkwood Music Co. (Punta Gorda, FL): fiddles and basses for bluegrass, country and folk musicians, handcrafted in USA
• Deering Banjo Co. (Spring Valley, CA): a full line of banjos, including production and custom models
• Engelhardt-Link (Elk Grove Village, IL): handcrafted basses and cellos for over 30 years. Standard and Junior sizes.
• Steinway & Sons (Long Island City, NY): Steinway grand and upright pianos for the American market are made in NY, with production in a German facility supplying Europe and Asia. (Boston and Essex pianos are made in Asia.)
• Stoney End Harps (Red Wing, MN): folk harps, mountain dulcimers, mountain banjos and bodhrans. Available online from Hobgoblin Music USA.

Wind Instruments [Back to Top]

• Conn-Selmer: this subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments (SMI) manufactures their "best grade" woodwind and brass instruments at facilities in Elkhart, IN and Eastlake, OH. ("Good" and "better" student instruments imported.) [A 3-year strike (2006-2009) by Union employees at the Elkhart plant (during which the company hired a number of replacement workers) has finally ended with decertification of the Union.]
• E.K. Blessing Co. (Elkhart, IN): Intermediate, Marching, and Artist brasswinds are made in USA at the Elkhart facility. (Student Brasswinds and Woodwinds are imported.) Available from Cascio Interstate Music.
• Flutewalker Musical Arts (Leverett, MA): hand-carved wood flutes in the Native American style by performer, recording artist and flute builder Werner John
• Fretwell Flutes (Everton, MO): Native American wood and cane flutes
• Harrison Harmonicas (Chicago, IL): the only harmonica made in the USA, the company is the brainchild of harmonica player Brad Harrison.