Hamer Guitars was an American electric guitar manufacturer founded in 1973, in Wilmette, Illinois, by vintage guitar shop owners Paul Hamer and Jol Dantzig. The company's early instrumts featured guitar designs based on the Gibson Explorer (The Standard) and Gibson Flying V (Vector), before adding more traditional Gibson-inspired designs such as the Sunburst. Hamer Guitars is gerally considered the first boutique vintage-style electric guitar brand that specifically catered to professional musicians, and was the first guitar manufacturer to produce a 12 string bass guitar.
The company was incorporated in Illinois in 1976 by John Montgomery, Jol Dantzig, James Walker and Hamer. It was acquired by Kaman Music Corporation in 1988, which was purchased in turn by Fder Musical Instrumts Corporation in 2008. Hamer offered a wide array of electric guitars and electric basses and since its foundation, placed an emphasis on producing high-quality instrumts with vintage aesthetics as well as creative innovations.
Kaman marketed a lower-priced line of Asian-built instrumts called the Hamer XT Series and Slammer by Hamer, which was discontinued in 2009.
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After a 4-year hiatus since Fder had discontinued the Hamer models in 2013, the brand was re-introduced as a subsidiary of KMC Music, which announced the return of imported only Hamer Guitars at the NAMM Show that same year.
The first Hamer guitar, a Flying V bass, was built at Northern Prairie Music, a vintage instrumt shop in Wilmette, Illinois, owned by Hamer and Dantzig. The shop catered to musicians who were interested in high-quality instrumts. This first instrumt served as the basis for a new company called Hamer Guitars.
Hamer began publicizing its instrumts in 1974, with small black-and-white ads in guitar magazines. Hamer Guitars Inc. was incorporated in Illinois in 1976 by John Montgomery, Jol Dantzig, Paul Hamer and James Walker. In 1977 the company set up shop in Palatine, Illinois and employed sev workers. At this time the primary woodworking was being subcontracted to the Tom Holmes Company in Nashville, Tnessee, with the painting and setup (stringing) being done in the Palatine shop. Prior to that point production had be one-off custom variations on the original Standard and Flying V guitars built by either John Montgomery or Jim Beach. The new arrangemt with Holmes allowed Hamer to broad its offering by building a more mainstream instrumt called the Sunburst. Before this expansion Hamer's customers were limited to big-name touring groups such as Kiss, Bad Company, Wishbone Ash, Jethro Tull and Savoy Brown. In the late 1970s to the mid-1980s Def Leppard used Hamer guitars and basses.
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Cheap Trick on stage in 1977 with their Hamer instrumts: Rick Niels (left) with a standard model and Tom Petersson with a 10-string bass
To appeal to a broader market, Hamer introduced its first production guitar, the Sunburst, 1977. Production was reportedly around 10 guitars per week. During that time, the company gained more popularity due to the high-profile patronage of Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Niels and that group's use of Hamer eight- and 12-string basses. In 1978, Frank Untermyer joined the company as part of Hamer's attempt to expand its business worldwide. Untermyer served as a partner and international sales manager.
In 1980, Hamer moved to larger quarters in Arlington Heights, a suburb of Chicago. It was at this point that all manufacturing processes were brought in-house, with Dantzig overseeing manufacturing and design. The staff had grown to 12 and Hamer Guitars continued to launch new models, such as the Special, Cruisebass, Prototype, Blitz and Phantom. Paul Hamer, the company's presidt, and chief salesperson, left in 1987 to pursue a career in retail. Kaman Music was th approached to handle sales, while the remaining owners conctrated on manufacturing. Kaman Music agreed to purchase Hamer in late 1988.
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From this era stems the appearance of Hamer models for heavy metal pioneers Judas Priest. Gln Tipton's designed and used two very iconic Hamer guitars: the non-production Hamer GT Custom, introduced in 1986, and the Hamer Phantom GT. Especially designed by Tipton, the GT Custom has a unique design, loosely based on a classic asymmetric V design but optimised for balance, sporting either Seymour Duncan and EMG pickups. The Phantom GT followed the more traditional design of a superstrat double cutaway guitar, equipped with EMG pickups. Both guitars are still used by Tipton on stage as of 2020.
In 1997, Kaman Music relocated Hamer to a smaller shop in New Hartford, Connecticut, home of Ovation Guitars. T of the 42 employees were relocated to New Hartford along with Dantzig, who was re-hired as technical director. Untermyer had the dual role of geral manager of both Hamer and Ovation. Hamer th began conctrating on a core of high-quality designs targeted at the high-d and collector market. Brand Manager Frank Rindone assumed all marketing, advertising and sales responsibilities.
Hamer lives in Chicago, where he operates a retail framing business. Dantzig left Fder in 2010 to build instrumts under the Jol Dantzig Guitar Design name. Untermyer left the company in 2012 and now oversees the global supply chain of guitar manufacturer C. F. Martin & Company.The Electric Guitar is a guitar that uses pickups and an amplifier to produce sound. It usually contains six strings, like an acoustic guitar, but doesn't have the same depth or a sound hole. By using an amplifier or computer program, the sound can be changed and manipulated, as well as turned up. When unplugged, however, it produces barely any sound at all.
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The Electric guitar was first manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. Original Electric guitars used tungsten pickups. Pickups basically convert the vibration of the strings into electrical current, which is then fed into the amplifier to produce the sound. It is plucked and strummed with the fingers or a pick, a small piece of plastic triangular in shape.
The first versions of the Electric guitar featured smaller sound holes in the body. These guitars are known as semi-hollow body Electric guitars and still are somewhat popular today, mainly due to the fact that they are flexible guitars.
However, with the use of pickups, it was possible to create guitars without sound holes (like the Acoustic and Classical guitars have) that still had the ability to be heard, if plugged into amplifiers. These guitars are called solid body Electric guitars.
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The Electric guitar’s popularity began to increase during the Big Band era of the ‘30s and 40s. Due to the loudness of the brass sections in jazz orchestras, it was necessary to have guitars that could be heard above the sections. Electric guitars, with the ability to be plugged into amplifiers, filled this void.
The Electric guitar that is most prevalent today is the solid body Electric guitar. The solid body guitar was created by musician and inventor Les Paul in 1941. It is a guitar made of solid wood with no sound holes. The original solid body guitar created by Paul was very plain—it was a simple rectangular block of wood connected to a neck with six steel strings. Les Paul’s original solid body guitar shape has, of course, changed from the original rectangular shape to the more rounded shape Les Paul guitars have today.
During the 1950s, Gibson introduced Les Paul’s invention to the world. The Gibson Les Paul, as it was and still is called, quickly became a very popular Electric guitar. It has remained the most popular guitar for 50 years.
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Around the same period of time, another inventor named Leo Fender came up with a solid body Electric guitar of his own. In the late 1940s, Fender introduced the Fender Broadcaster Electric guitar. The Broadcaster, which was renamed the Stratocaster, was officially introduced to the public in 1954. The Strat, as it is now known, was a very different guitar in comparison to the Les Paul. It had a different shape, different hardware and was significantly lighter. Fender’s Stratocaster Electric guitar is the second most popular guitar in the world, second to only the Les Paul.
Over the years, other companies, such as Ibanez, Jackson, Paul Reed Smith, ESP and Yamaha have all produced solid body Electric guitars of their own. However, most Electric guitars still feature the familiar shape of a Les Paul or Strat guitar.
Multiple solid body electrics also have different amounts of strings, with 7, 8, 9, and 10 string guitars being a thing, some notable guitars with more strings are; Chapman ML-7 S, Schecter Omen 8, Schecter Hellraiser C-9, and the Agile 10 String.
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To enhance or even change the sound of an Electric guitar, player may use something called pedals. An electric guitar pedal adds an effect to the sound of an Electric guitar. Several examples of pedals include Distortion (increases volume), Octave (brings the sound up or down an octave), Wah-wah(mimics the sound of saying wah-wah), Sustain (increases the length of notes played), and more. If an Electric guitarist has more than one pedal, they usually bring something called a pedal board, which houses pedals and can be carried in a performance. Pedals are also able to be used on other electric , like the Bass Guitar.This article needs additional citations for verification. Please
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