![]() ![]() The popularity of the Egmond guitar exploded. For a fraction of the price Egmond produced guitars, within the reach of young guitar players. The Stratocaster was the dream of every young guitar player but the price made the guitar unreachable. The popularity of the Egmond guitar started with the introduction of Leo Fender's Stratocaster. At some point, Egmond guitars was the largest guitar builder in Europe. Guitar building and selling expanded, and after 1960 more than 200 guitar builders were employed by the Egmond guitar factory, resulting in the build of more than 125.000 Egmond guitars a year. Beside of the Egmond guitar factory, the family also ran the Musica music store. This workshop burned down two or three times, but despite of that, production and selling of the Egmond guitars went up, and in 1961 the Egmond guitar factory was established. In 1940, former railroad station-chief Uilke Egmond and his three sons Gerard, Dick and Jaap started to build guitars in a small workshop in Best, Holland. ![]()
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