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Guild got bought out by Yamaha
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It might not be a bad thing, Japanese instruments are outstanding
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Guild set up a factory to make guitars somewhere in California about 8 years ago or so. They had Ren Ferguson on board for a while but he left after a couple of years. I haven’t seen many of the California-made ones, but they looked and sounded the part in videos. I think Yamaha knows a thing or two about running instrument companies 
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Absolutely. It be nice to see them actually become stable.Guild set up a factory to make guitars somewhere in California about 8 years ago or so. They had Ren Ferguson on board for a while but he left after a couple of years. I haven’t seen many of the California-made ones, but they looked and sounded the part in videos. I think Yamaha knows a thing or two about running instrument companies
as much of a fan of guild that I am , buying one unseen scares me from things I’ve heard and saw online.
companies like yamaha ,Taylor and takamine you know what you are getting where guild is more “ is it good or a lemon”
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Yamaha are criminally overlooked company, I own a Yamaha SPX 90, 990 and had a couple of their guitars.
Great gear !!!!
Great gear !!!!
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That's true of every company not named PRS or G&L if we're going to pretend to be purists.
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If these companies that bought the name, use the same way of making these guitars and the same materials to match the original guitars, I have no problem. But we don't know ..
Until proven otherwise, it's more marketing for me, not to be purist.
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Worst of it is the og guilds kind of sucked lol
I’ve had people on the guild forum tell me the Korean starfires where leagues above the original
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Well, Yamaha bought Line6 and returned them to prominence fairly quickly. And Yamaha basically makes good stuff across the board (we won't talk about the SHO V8 cams in this discussion), so this will mean at least they are making solid guitars. This is most likely a Good Thing.
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And Rickenbacker...
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I see this as a good thing. Yamaha has the money to promote and expand the Guild line. I'd love to see a nice S100 reissue.
Sort of like how the Canadian Hiwatt company now also has Park and Wem amps. Would love to see those amps be more available (including Hiwatts which I don't think are in any stores that I can find).
Sort of like how the Canadian Hiwatt company now also has Park and Wem amps. Would love to see those amps be more available (including Hiwatts which I don't think are in any stores that I can find).
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But the SHO V6 was a thing of beauty and so was the Toyota 4A-GE!
Often a Japanese parent company will allow subsidiaries to run independently so long as they do well. They also tend to be less focused on quarter-to-quarter, so long as things are trending ok. Of course it depends.
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The smart thing that Yamaha did with Line6 was bring in the original founder of the company to run it again.
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I've owned several Yamaha guitars and still have two dreadnoughts and a bass. I recently bought an Ampeg (Yamaha) RB210 bass amp. My first real guitar amp back in the 60's was a Yamaha. I've owned several Yamaha motorcycles. I'm pretty enthused about them buying Guild.
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I think it might be good thing
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