Vintage Guitar - unknown make, maybe experimental? Cracked body.

Описание: The Vintage® guitar brand, guided throughout by the remarkably proactive team at JHS® situated in Garforth, Leeds, England, has achieved more respect in thirty years than some brands could hope for in a lifetime.

Since 1993 Vintage has earned an excellent reputation with musicians around the world since the launch of the very first Encore LTD76, a limited edition run of exotic spec double cut bolt neck guitars in 1994 and the first Encore® Vintage Series VC1 in 1995, receiving first class magazine reviews commenting on their outstanding build, quality, playability, sound and above all…price.

As a brand name, Encore®, the ‘precursor’ to the Vintage brand, has started millions of guitar players on their musical journeies. Today, the Encore brand, which covers acoustics, electrics, and basses, is sold alongside Vintage in over 140 markets around the world.

Dennis Drumm JHS Executive Chairman comments, “So, how did it all begin?... Since the heady days of the beat boom in the mid 60’s with the birth in 1965 of the firm John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd., (now commonly referred to as JHS®) the creator, owner and worldwide distributor of the Vintage® brand, has been at the forefront of bringing affordable guitars to the market.

The company’s founder, the eponymous John Hornby Skewes, was a driven ‘ideas man’ with a keen eye on quality and value, who in the early years was responsible for bringing some now quite funky and collectable 'early days' electric guitar brands to the UK like Kasuga, Terada, Zenta and Hondo which were made by factories which went on to become the producers of some very famous brands, some still active to-day.

During the period towards the end of the sixties, when guitar manufacturing was beginning to move from Japan to Korea to keep costs down, the Korean producers quickly latched on to what was needed and with help from the likes of Jerry Freed and Tommy Moore of IMC in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, the Samick company was commissioned by IMC to produce the original Hondo® line of fretted instruments. Hondo was the first of the new wave of offshore brands offering an organised product line with super affordability, playability, and credibility.

By the mid-seventies Hondo had made its way around the world, and in 1976, JHS took the Hondo line for distribution in the UK and Republic of Ireland. The worldwide success of the Hondo line was on everyone’s radar and the market seemed almost insatiable as the guitar continued to grow in popularity year on year on year. This led others to follow a similar path, one of the first of which was the Italian company, Melody, which in 1980 created a range of parabolic moulded back acoustic and electro-acoustic guitars which were of a similar style to the entry level line produced by the Ovation Company in the US called ‘Applause™’.

Melody were commissioned to make a range of parabolic moulded back acoustic and electro-acoustic guitars for JHS, and we needed a good strong brand name. John Skewes, always possessed of a wicked sense of humour and came up with the inspired brand name of ‘Encore’, or as he explained it to me way back in the day, ‘…even more applause …’.