Martin guitars bought the Egmond factory in Best, Holland and, for a while, produced the Vega and Alpha brands, copies of the Martin best sellers, which ended in 1983. It appears to be all original, with a proper vintage patina, and is overall in nice vintage condition except for a small piece missing from the tip of the pickguard. This guitar is very playable and sounds great for that Delta blues sort of tone. With the worldwide competition of very cheap, well built guitars from the asian countries, Egmond guitars hit rough weather, and it all came to an end in 1976. This guitar is in great, mostly original condition (aside from the refret) and really shows the state of European guitar craft in the early 1960s. You can find more info on these interesting guitars at Egmond’s site here. Most guitars were exported, and especially the Rosetti Lucky 7 was a hit, due to the fact it came in all kind of "hip"colors. Egmond built electric guitars, acoustic and semi-hollowbody guitars, and amps.Įgmond not only built guitars under their own name, but Egmond also produced other labels like Wilson, Miller, Manhattan, Lion, Caladonie, Lido, Frima, Rosetti, Orpheum, Royal, Royalist, Alpha, Vega and Roderich Paesold a long list. The popularity of the Egmond guitar exploded. For a fraction of the price Egmond produced guitars, within the reach of young guitar players. The Stratocaster was the dream of every young guitar player but the price made the guitar unreachable. The popularity of the Egmond guitar started with the introduction of Leo Fender's Stratocaster. At some point, Egmond guitars was the largest guitar builder in Europe. Guitar building and selling expanded, and after 1960 more than 200 guitar builders were employed by the Egmond guitar factory, resulting in the build of more than 125.000 Egmond guitars a year. Beside of the Egmond guitar factory, the family also ran the Musica music store. This workshop burned down two or three times, but despite of that, production and selling of the Egmond guitars went up, and in 1961 the Egmond guitar factory was established. ![]() In 1940, former railroad station-chief Uilke Egmond and his three sons Gerard, Dick and Jaap started to build guitars in a small workshop in Best, Holland.
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