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Mobius Megatar

2000 to present

Tapping guitars made in Mount Shasta, California.  Founded 1997 by Reg Thompson, Henri Dupony and Traktor Topaz and first guitars produced 2000. [Source: Vintage Guitar Price Guide]

Mocetti

Stefano Mocetti,

Images: Guitar Salon

Modulus guitars

1978 to present

Founded by Geoff Gould in San Francisco. Currently made in Novato, California.

Dating Modulus instruments information

http://www.modulusguitars.com/v2/faq.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulus_Guitars

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Modulus

Moll

1996 to present

Moll Custom Instruments made by Bill Moll, Springfield, Missouri.

Molonator Guitars

2000 to present

Made since "2000 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Date written in neck pocket" [Source: Peter Moles, Molinator, email 24/7/2008]

Pedro Maldonado

Momose

Japanese guitars

Monarch

Carl Fischer Musical Instrument Company, est. in 1872, and they bought the York  Band Instrument Company, est in 1882. They went out of business in 1959. Carl Fischer was a distributor of musical instruments, in New York, Boston and Philadelphia areas. [Source: All experts]

Monarch guitars - Made in Italy. Well at least some were.

Image Monarch by Carl Fischer label eBay:

Monch Guitars

Edgar Monch was a renowned classical guitar maker from Germany and trained Jean Larrivee in Canada [Source: wikipedia ]

http://www.brucewestinstruments.com/Monch.htm

http://www.guitar-toronto.on.ca/history-personal.shtml

Images Hill Guitar : ebay

Moncloa Guitars

1980 to present

"We started making guitars in 1980.
We make our guitars at home where we have a specially conditioned workshop.

All our guitars bear a serial number and date of manufacture, on the lower left corner of the label. The guitar I am building now is number 459.
We only make a few guitars in a year and most of them by special order. Very seldom we have a finished guitar ready for sale. We have exported our guitars mainly to England, France, Switzerland, USA and Japan.
We, is yours truly and my wife Micheline who is a great help in some of the processes of manufacture and takes care of most of the purchasing and administration work.
I was born in 1940 so I am now 68." [Source: Daniel Moncloa, daniel@moncloaguitars.com Lima, PERU, email 12/4/2008]

Monica's Guitars

San Clemente, California, USA

Making since 1970s, nylon since 1992.

Healdsburg, California, USA

Montana

Basic line imported to USA from Korea in early 1990 by Kaman Corporation. Also made in Romania. Image courtesy of Sue Blow, Canada.

Montano

1960s

Montano guitars made in Japan.

Images eBay:

Montaya

1970s-80s

Korean made acoustics and electrics. Montaya Hyosung America Inc.

Montaya catalog

http://www.vintaxe.com/catalogs_korean_montaya.htm

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Montaya

image eBay

Monteleone

1976 to present

John Monteleone, Islip, New York, USA. Archtops

Monterey

Image eBay

Monterey

current

Image eBay

A Harmony Brand

http://harmony.demont.net/brands.php

Montuoro Guitar Company

Frank Montuoro makes guitars in the tradition of the Larson Brothers in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Moon

1979 to present

Japan. Electric Guitars made in Japan. Parent Company is PGM [Source: Guitars Japan]

Picture gallery Moon Japan Guitars

Moon

1979 to present

Glasgow Scotland "Hi Paul, They would have to contact us directly. There is no other way of dating our guitars." [Source: Joan, Moon Guitars Ltd, email 17/3/2008]

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Moon

Moondog Guitars

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Moondog+Guitars

Moonstone

1972 to present

Moonstone guitars are built by luthier Steve Helgeson, in Eureka, California USA

Dating Moonstone Guitars

https://store.bluebookinc.com/Info/PDF/EGuitar/ElectricSerialization.pdf

Other Moonstone info

http://www.guitargal.com/moonstone.html

2005 Moonstone Guitar pricelist

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Moonstone

Images Moonstone guitar eBay:

Brian Moore

1992 to present

Founded by Patrick Cummings, Brian Moore and Kevin Kalagher in Brewster, New  York

http://www.iguitar.com/

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Brian+Moore+Guitars

1976 to present

John Monteleone restored guitars for Mandolin Brothers in Staten Island New York in 1973.  He opened his own shop in in Bayshore, NY in 1976, relocating to Islip, New York, in 1990. Most instruments were either dated on label or stamped inside back of instrument. [Source: Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Instruments 2nd Ed] See Gruhn's guide for detailed serial number range.

http://www.mandozine.com/resources/CGOW/monteleone.php

Morales

1967-68

Morales are Japanese guitars made by Zen-On Music Co

Morales catalog

http://www.t-shiga.com/sub7-5-1.htm

see Zenon

Images Yahoo:

Morch guitars

1970 to present

Built by Orsted, Denmark

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Morch

More Harmony

1930s

Not a brand of the Harmony Co.

More Harmony was a private brand of Dobro for Dailey's More Harmony Music Studio. [Source: Vintage Guitar Price Guide]

Morgaine guitars

1994 to present

Made by Jorg Tandler, in Boppard, Germany.

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Morgaine

David Iannone was Jean Larrivee's apprentice. In 1986 he formed Morgan Guitars. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

According to the 2000 specification all Morgan Guitars has the following features:

One piece mahogany neck, bound ebony fingerbound, ebony bridge, wood binding and purfling, wood marquetry or abalone rosette, hand fitted dovetail neck joint, adjustable truss rod, transparent or tortoiseshell pickguard, Morgan engraved machine heads.
Backs and sides are made from Indian Rosewood, Figured Maple, Koa or Mahogany.
Tops are constructed from Sitka Spruce, Englemann Spruce or Red Cedar.
Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Acoustic+Guitar/brand/Morgan

Morgan Monroe

1999 to present

Acoustic/electric and resonators from Korea. Distributed SHS International, Indianapolis, Indiana USA

Images eBay

Eduardo Moreno Moore

1992 to present

"Because at the moment we are making instruments for the Suzuki programs, I have being using the following code, Ex. 58041206, first 2 number 58 are the size (string length) for the instrument,  04 is the number of instruments made of this size, 12 is the month and 07 is the year. I am using the code since 2006, guitars build before march 2006 have the month abbreviated in words and year, all written with my hand and signed, there was also a wax seal, brown, crystal and gold. Brown seal is simple construction, crystal seal has good quality materials and gold seal represents the best materials and dedication." [Source: Eduardo Moore, email 29/3/2008]

Moreschi

Moreschi guitars, made in Italy.

Morris

1967 to present

Morris guitars made in Japan by Terada Musical Instrument Co. Currently in Korea also.

1975 Morris Custom http://www.myrareguitars.com/eMorris.html

Morris acoustic guitar catalogs

http://www.t-shiga.com/sub7-5-1.htm

http://jvguitar.com/bbs/zboard.php?id=gallery

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Morris

Images eBay: Oval label appears to be from the late 1970s/early 1980s

Colin Morison Guitars

Charles F Morrison

1974 to present

Charles F Morrison has been making classical guitars since 1974.

1974-79 - Boulder, Colorado
1979-80 - Bozeman, Montana
1981-1992 East Burke & Sutton, Vermont
2009 - Barnesville, Colorado

Early influences included Max Krimmel, NBN Guitars and Dave Goodrich, to whom I give full credit for instilling in me the drive for quality craftsmanship that enhances my instruments. [Source: Charles F Morrison, email Nov 2009]

Mortoro guitars

1991 to present

Gary Mortoro, Miami Florida, USA

http://www.promusicfind.com/new/dating.shtml#Mortoro

http://www.mortoroguitars.com/pages/main.html