Featuring a dreadnought-shaped body with an Engelmann Spruce top and a Sapele back and sides. Hopefully, the name is already a giveaway for what kind of instrument this is modeled off. These span across all ranges of acoustic guitar, from beginner models to pro which can be used by the most demanding of working musicians. Greg Bennet is a world-renowned guitar designer and marketing veteran who helped Samick create an entire line of musical instruments. We can think of Samicks own line of guitars as 2 separate categories, the first is their ‘Greg Bennet Design’ instruments. So while these days they are primarily known as an OEM manufacturer, they do in fact have their own line of guitars which are produced at that same Indonesian facility.Īlthough often overshadowed by the instruments they produce for other companies, the fact is Samick instruments are made by the same people, subjected to the same meticulous QC, and are every bit as good as their foreign counterparts in both quality and sound. Samickīefore we can properly understand the significance of Samick guitar works and their heritage, we first need to talk about the parent company, Samick Music Corp.įounded in 1964, Samick started out as a piano manufacturer and quickly expanded with the production of its own guitar range.Īs time passed, and particularly in 1992 once they opened a new production facility in Indonesia, they started to lean far more into producing instruments on behalf of both other western brands, as well as their own subsidiary brands which include the likes of Greg Bennet guitars and Silvertone. So today we hope to give you a little bit more insight into Korean acoustic guitar brands and try our best to shed a bit more light onto this small, yet often underappreciated, area of guitar brands. Which is a shame as there are some incredible guitars out there! So as a result they tend to stay focused on the Korean market exclusively.īetween the language barrier and lack of Western guitar media coverage, we seldom get to hear about them.
There are two main reasons for this, as nearly all of Korea’s exported instruments are manufactured for other bigger foreign brands there is little incentive for any domestic Korean brand to try and push to an international audience. Yet despite the huge role Korea plays in the worldwide production of guitars, we seldom hear about any of Korea’s own domestic brands which include: Korea is a world leader in guitar manufacturing, with huge production plants that make instruments on behalf of brands such as Chapman, Gretsch, Guild, and PRS to name a few.
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