Eko guitars italy7/6/2023 Wenzel Rossmeissl, who is by then reducing his own production and increasingly concentrates on Eko ’s distribution in Germany, was certainly influential in that choice. The Eko 300 is offered as an alternative to the Höfner Club or Framus Hollywood, Europe’s best selling electrics of the late 50’s. Models 100 and 200 are in direct competition to the Framus Sorella and countless other German arch tops. The company starts by building flat top and arch top acoustic instruments. He also contacts German guitar builder Wenzel Rossmeissl who is building excellent electric jazz style guitars and selling them under the brand name Roger, which is his son’s name. He speaks with Italian builders, the Paladino Brothers for advice and sets up a sales contract with them. Neither he nor his workers had any experience in guitar building, so Pigini sets out to gather information on the process. Swedish accordion manufacturer/competitor Hagström was reconverting its factory to build guitars. In 1959 Oliviero Pigini was already in the accordion manufacturing business. The Lo Duca Brothers began importing guitars from Eko. Most of the domestically manufactured instruments were expensive, so to fill the glut some manufacturers and entrepreneurs turned to importing Asian and European manufactured instruments. The British Invasion hit around the United States in 1964 and everyone wanted to learn to play guitar.
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