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European instrument companies?

#5
Johannes Oehl said:
Germany:

Human Base
Marleaux
Ritter
Christoph Kost
Schack
Boerjes
Lefay

France:

Noguera
Leduc
Vigier

These are just the ones that instantly come to my mind, there are certainly lots more :-)
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Poland:

Mayones
GMR

Italy:

Wood & Tronics

Spain:

Jerzy Drozd

UK:

Status
Overwater
Sei Bass
Manson
GB
Enfield
Wal

OK, so some of these guys are never going to bother Fender in terms of volume, most of them are low volume or custom makers but they build some fine instruments nonetheless
 
#6
Sweden:
Unicorn basses
Mattisson basses

Sanden Guitars

Hagstrom is still in business for both guitars and basses but no longer produced in Sweden.

Vintage instruments:
Levin guitars
Bjarton guitars and (double) basses
 
#8
Awesome. I assumed there would be plenty, maybe ones not so known over here. The wife asked me earlier about this and all I could picture was Warwick and Hagstom, and if I hadn't been gassing over a short-scale 8-string a few months ago I likely wouldn't have known the latter. I've seen a few of those before, I guess I didn't know where they came from.
 

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