So mayones IS an instrument! Someone tell Squidward!
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Also consider your local luthiers and other manufacturers, they're often in dire need of support, yet get none because their guitars don't have "Fender" or "Gibson" written on them.
My electric guitar is a Swedish Hagström Ultra Swede, I always wanted to get a genuine Gibson Les Paul but never could afford one. So I ended up with the much cheaper Ultra Swede, have been playing with it for two years and I'm more than happy with it.
I also have two Finnish Landola acoustic guitars from the late 60's - early 70's, a 12-string "Colorado" model and a 6-string "Buffalo". Both sound excellent, especially after I made new bone nuts and saddles to replace the original plastic ones.
Manson guitars are from the UK.
Also there are several Japanese guitar companies - sure they're not European, but at least they're not American. Examples would be Ibanez, ESP, Yamaha.
A bit pricy, bit there is Strandberg Guitars which AFAIK are made in Uppsala, Sweden.
Most of the current production is made in Indonesia, some special editions in Japan. Still, great guitars.
My last two guitars were Ormsby's, from Australia.
Framus is awesome. Good thing that my favorite Canadian is also a framus endorsed artist!
Furch anybody? Czech guitars, 1A quality!
I love my PJD custom shop Woodford Elite. They are a small UK based shop.
Can't believe there is no love for Thomann in here, yet. Cheap and effective, can't go wrong.
Nik Huber has a great reputation. Karl Longbottom also. Oswald is a great choice too. Taran acoustics, Lowden also of course. That's just off the top of my head.
Japanese, but tokai make great guitars.
Yamaha for beginners!
Feels like this meme needs to use someone other than an american...
I have a Lakewood acoustic, made in Germany, I'm incredibly impressed with. It's a custom shop with a AAAA European Spruce top and Cocobolo back and sides. Lakewood Guitars
I use Yamaha bass. I think I won’t change it anytime soon.
After all this years I have to find out that it actually is an intrument.
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Lowden Guitars, high quality acoustics, made in Northern Ireland. https://lowdenguitars.com/
Taran makes some really amazing acoustics too.
I love this community because I'm learning a lot about where stuff is from. Case in point, I was going to suggest Ibanez and found out it's Japanese lol
Well, at least it's not from murica
I've played an Ibanez SR 300 bass on stage for years. I tried many others but nothing feels or sounds as good to me.
Australia is basically honorary Europe.
Heck, all of CANZUK is honorary Europe.
This is exactly what we should do for now - post every single post both here on Lemmy and on Reddit and we should constantly remind people that they have to switch to Lemmy!
The Reddit mods seems to not like Lemmy a lot: https://lemm.ee/post/57901024?scrollToComments=true
They enjoy seeing their work get fucked over. That sounds like a cuck to me.
What is reddit?
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An if we want to support our Canadian friends: Godin. Excellent guitars
Japan makes the best IMO
Solar.
Yes, they also have "Made in Europe"
those guitars are also much higher quality than Gibson or fender
I haven't kept up with guitars in the past 20 years, but didn't fender and gipson fall off super hard quality wise?
it's not a production or design issue (and there are many)
it's just that for some reason the quality control has sunk to levels that have become unacceptable
I think Gibson has legitimately sunk in quality and is a shell of its former self, I'm not convinced Fender has. It is my understanding that QC slipped a bit during the pandemic and some instruments in rough shape left the factory, but I've seen reports of them honoring their warranty and replacing them with perfect instruments. I personally don't need another Fender, my '96 fat strat is still fit for purpose.
Hagström is great, especially the Super Swede is on my favourite list.
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La Mancha (Spain) make really nice acoustic guitars.
Jerzy Drozd (Spain) for bassists who never get enough love.
I love Hohner brand guitars. Made in German, simply great sound and experience overall.
Höfner? Source: my violin bass
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