So Much in the Hands of So Few

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Fun stuff, guess it's like any other thing left, though.
I'm sure there are more to add.
Anything Y'all are aware of or something I missed to add to the lists below?
Perhaps some defunct brands due to the below or other?

FMIC/Fender

Jackson
Charvel
Squier
EVH
Gretsch
Groove Tubes
DeArmond (now under Cordoba/Yamaha)
SUNN
PreSonus
Bigsby
SWR Sound Corp.
Heartfield
Hamer (now under KMC)
Guild (now under Cordoba/Yamaha)

GIBSON

Epiphone
Kramer
Mesa
KRK
Maestro
Steinberger
Tobias
Onkyo (currently under Sharp/Voxx(Audiovox)/PAC)
Cakewalk (now under BandLabs)
Tascam
Neat Mics
Philips Woox
Harmony Central (Bought from GC/MF in 2015)
Cerwin Vega
Stanton DJ
TEAC
Garrison
Kalamazoo
Dobro
Valley Arts
Slingerland (now under Roland)
Baldwin
Wurlitzer
Orville

KORG

Vox
Blackstar
Darkglass
Aguilar
Spector
Sakae

ESP/Hisatake Shibuya

LTD
ENGL
Takamine
Edwards
Grassroots
Navigator
Schecter (possibly Wylde Audio?)

YAMAHA

Ampeg
Line 6
Guild
Cordoba
DeArmond

HOSHINO GAKKI

Ibanez
Tama

ERNIE BALL

Music Man
Sterling

ROLAND

Boss
DW
Toka
Latin
Gretsch Drums (currently under GEWA)
Ovation (currently under GEWA)
Gibralter
Rhodes
DG
V-Moda
Slingerland

D'ANGELICO

Supro
Pigtronix

LOUD TECH/AUDIO

Mackie
Ampeg (currently under Yamaha)
Crate
Blackheart

MUSIC TRIBE

Behringer
Midas
Bugera
TC Electronic
Klark Teknik

KMC/EXERTIS/JAM

Ampeg (?)
Daisy Rock
Remo
Hamer
Randall
Washburn
Ashly Audio
US Music Corp
Framus
Hagstrom
Jay Turser
Oscar Schmidt
Warwick
Quik Lok
Parker

GEWA Music

Ovation
Applause
Thomastik Infeld
Gretsch Drums

GODIN

Seagull
Art & Lutherie

JIM DUNLOP

MXR
Way Huge
Cry Baby

HANSER MUSIC GROUP

Kustom
BC Rich (post class axe 93ish? until 2019)
Powerwerks PA
Michael Kelly
Traben
Bad Cat (ownership of only MIC cougar series)

PEAVEY

Budda Amplification
Trace Elliot
Media Matrix
Crest Audio
PVDJ

BandLab Technologies

Heritage
Harmony
Teisco
BandLab
Cakewalk
Guitar dot com
ReverbNation

D'ADDARIO

Evans
Planet Waves
ProMark
 
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Interesting list.
Thanks for compiling.

This needs to be added to the OP as it made me look twice :lol:

"Schecter Guitars is owned by Hisatake Shibuya, a Japanese entrepreneur who also owns the Musicians Institute in Hollywood and ESP Guitars. According to an entry on the Schecter Guitars website, the company was originally founded by David Schecter in 1976 as a repair shop in Van Nuys, California. In 1987, it was sold to Hisatake Shibuya."
 
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Also got a kick out of this...


The Cameron amplifier company, specifically the "C. Cameron" brand, is no longer actively in business. However, historically, there was a company known as C. Cameron, a well-respected builder of tube amplifiers. Information about the company's ownership is not readily available in current online resources.

well-respected :lol:
 
311boogieman said:
Interesting list.
Thanks for compiling.

This doesn't need to be added to the OP but it made me look :lol:

"Schecter Guitars is owned by Hisatake Shibuya, a Japanese entrepreneur who also owns the Musicians Institute in Hollywood and ESP Guitars. According to an entry on the Schecter Guitars website, the company was originally founded by David Schecter in 1976 as a repair shop in Van Nuys, California. In 1987, it was sold to Hisatake Shibuya."
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This appears to be accurate will add to the list.
 
Navigator/Edwards/LTD/Grassroots are all in-house brands that were created by ESP for different purposes rather than being bought up.
Also I think they only do distro for Takamine.
 
Perko said:
Navigator/Edwards/LTD/Grassroots are all in-house brands that were created by ESP for different purposes rather than being bought up.
Also I think they only do distro for Takamine.
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Would guess that most here are aware of that. More of a who's under who than specifically who bought who. Although the latter is more common.
ESP seems to own Takamine copyright, so... Will look deeper into it as I'm not just sourcing wikipedia.
 
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