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Alaska (Rosins) See --> Walter Geipel
Albert Augustine
USA based manufacturer of strings for classical guitars, both nylon and metal, they have also more recently started selling student level classical guitars. The company was founded in 1928 by Danish immigrant Albert Augustine as a guitar workshop and with time more or less specialised in classical guitars originally based on an early Antonio de Torres guitar design he owned althou over time his guitars started to show Hermann Hauser influences. In 1946 AA was the first USA company to mass produce nylon strings in association with E. I. du Pont de Nemours. Manufacture of Augustine branded guitars stopped with Hr. Augustine's death in 1967 but his wife Rose Augustine ran it as an strings manufacturer until her death in 2003. The manufacture of Augustine guitars was taken over by Frank Haselbacher in 1969. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In France by SML, in Greece by Philippos Nakas S.A., in Ireland and the UK by John Hornby Skewes & Co Ltd and Barnes & Mullins, in New Zealand by Music Works Ltd, non-exclusive distribution/wholesaling in the USA by St. Louis Music
Albert Augustine, 30-10 41st Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA.
Tel: +1 917 661 0220. E-Mail: mail [at] albertaugustine.com
Albion Amplification (Guitar & bass amplifiers) See --> International Audio Group
Al Cassinelli Mouthpiece Co.
USA based company that manufactures valve, slide and key oil for brass instruments, they have also made trumpet mouthpieces until recently but appear to have stopped that for the time being. Usually marketed using the shorter Al Cass name. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In the UK by Bill Lewington Ltd. Non-exclusive distribution in the USA by Conn-Selmer
Al Cassinelli Mouthpiece Co., 25 Depot St, Milford, MA 01757-3612, USA.
Tel: +1 508 715 4300 or +1 508 473 3572. E-Mail: sales (at) alcassbrass.com
Alesis See --> Numark
Alessandro Marseglia
Italian maker of classical style guitars, is especially known for making instruments that have an unusually loud tone and thus very popular with classical concert guitarists. No known homepage.
Alessandro Marseglia, Via Pisacane Carlo 2, 80078 Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy.
Tel: +39 (0)81 5266008..
Alessi-Vacchiano See --> Conn-Selmer
Algam S.A.S.
French musical instrument distributor that also trades under the SML name when dealing with (mostly) classical music instruments. Manufactures guitars & basses under the Lâg brand including both high end models made in France and medium priced ones made in Asia, sells budget guitars and amplifiers under the Jim Harley name, classical guitars & other folk instruments under the Santo y Mayor and Sylvana stensils, African and latin American percussion products under the Tanga brand, guitar bags and cases under the Tobago name, guitar cables and parts under the Yellow stensil and stands and fasteners under the R. T. X. label in addition to selling mostly Asian sourced wind instruments under the SML Paris name. Note that the company appears to be slowly discontinuing the use of the Yellow and Tobago brands.
Algam was initially founded in 1972 as a manufacturer of ethnic musical instruments and accessories under the Camac brand but that side of the business was sold a few years back and is now the harp specialist Camac. It entered the guitar business in 2003 after it lost the Gibson distribution rights in France, but the company had already invested in the Michel Lâg-Chavarria operation a year earlier. Algam had a particularily close relationship with Japanese guitar manufacturer Takamine that they had been distributing since the 70's and that was the reason they stopped making acoustic guitars when they took over the Lag operation, but when Fender took over KMC Music in 2007 and moved the distribution of Takamine to Fender Europe, Algam responded by dropping design cooperation with the company but Algam was actually the originator of the Takamine Natural series and another guitar design was in the works that the company had intended to introduce in cooperation with Takamine in 2008 but was in the end released as a Lag product in 2010.
Algam handles the French distribution of Akai Professional, Alesis, Aloha, Arturia, Azahar, BBE Sound, B. C. Rich, Breedlove Guitar Company, Celestion, CF Martin, Chauvet Lighting, Crest Audio, D'Addario & Co., Dean Markley, DR. Parts, Duende Percusión, Dugain, Dunlop Manufacturing Inc., Elements, Elixir, EMG, Eminence, ESP Co., Euromet, Evans, Gator Cases, Get'm Get'm, GHS Strings, G&L Guitars, Gon Bops, Gypsy Rose, Hagstrom, Hartke Systems, HK Audio, Hughes & Kettner, König & Meyer, Korg, Koss, Larrivée, LTD, Martin Audio, M-Audio, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, Monster Cable, Morley, MXR, Natal Drums, Neutrik, Nord, Nova, Numark, Planet Waves, Power Works, PRS, Puresound Percussion, Recording King, RHA, Rickenbacker, Rotosound, Royal Classics, Sabian, Samson Audio, Shadow Electronics, Schubb Capos, Shure Inc., Skull Strings, Sony, SX, Tanglewood, Toontrack, Vic Firth, Vox, Way Huge, Wharfedale Pro, Wincent Drumsticks, Zildjian, and 2Box in addition to the European distribution of Dell'Arte.
The SML division distributes Argentine, Augustine, Berg Larsen, Bernd Moosmann, B&S GmbH, Brancher France, Chopsaver, Dell'Arte, Denis Wick, Getzen, Hagerty, Hans Hoyer, Humes & Berg, J. Scherzer, Légère Reeds, Mahalo, Manhasset, Melton, Meyer, Mighty Bright, Natal Drums, Nuvo-Instrumental, Otto Link, Pearl Drums, Pearl Flutes, Pro-Mark, Prudencio Saéz, Savarez, Saxrax, SD Systems, Tom Crown, Valencia, Vandoren and Yanagisawa
The SML branch was originally founded as Strasser-Marigaux-Lemaire in 1935 as a manufacturer of wind instuments that sold clarinets and oboes under the Marigaux name, flutes under the Louis Lot name and saxes under the SML brand, had had by the 80's become a MI distributor and an oboe specialist working under the "SML Marigaux" name, the instrument manufacture was sold off and is now Marigaux.. -- Official homepage. -- SML homepage -- La Boite Noire Du Musicien - Wholesale catalogue -- Lág Guitars homepage
Distribution : All non-classical instruments are distributed on Reunion Island by Fotelec. Lag guitars are distributed in Poland by Lauda Audio, in Scandinavia by Luthman Scandinavia and in the UK and Ireland by Barnes & Mullins. Jim Harley, Tanga and RTX products are sold in Italy by Bode SRL
Algam S.A.S., 2 rue de Milan, 44484 Thouaré Cedex, France.
Tel: +33 (0)2 40 18 37 00.
SML, 20 rue Bouvier, 75011 Paris, France.
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 27 64 90. Fax: +33 (0)1 40 09 83 21.
Alisyn (Wind instrument lubricants) See --> Aerospace Lubricants Inc.
Allan Segal
USA based gent that manufactures clarinet barrels. -- Official homepage.
Allan Segal, C/O TSSA, 93 Boundry Lane, Beaver, PA 15009-2949, USA.
Tel: +1 412 889 8202. E-Mail: .
Allora See --> GTRC Services
Almería (Classical guitars & tuning machines) See --> Gewa Music
Aloha (Ukuleles) See --> Team International Co.
Altus Flutes See --> KHS Group
Alvarez (Acoustic guitars) See --> Loud Technologies
Alvaro See --> Enrique Keller
Alyseum (Copperlan MIDI & CV products) See --> BUWI
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