Soon manufacturing numbers grew, and after several factory upgrades and moves, Egmond became one of the largest guitar companies in all of Europe. After WWII came to a close, however, his three sons joined the family business and began in-house instrument production. Uilke Egmond seemed to have a good thing going selling imported instruments at Musica, in Valkenswaard, Netherlands. The story of Egmond follows an arc similar to many instrument manufacturers, in that the company first started out as a music store. Their electrics from the 1960s provided myriad European guitar players with a solid and affordable gateway to rock ’n’ roll. It's all history now.From the country known more for tulips and windmills than 6 strings, Egmond deserves some recognition for the company’s significant contribution to the guitar universe. Martin guitars bought the Egmond factory in Best, Holland and, for a while, produced the Vega and Alpha brands, copies of the Martin best sellers, which ended in 1983. With the worldwide competition of very cheap, well built guitars from the asian countries, Egmond guitars hit rough weather, and it all came to an end in 1976. Most guitars were exported, and especially the Rosetti Lucky 7 was a hit, due to the fact it came in all kind of "hip"colors. Egmond built electric guitars, acoustic and semi-hollowbody guitars, and amps.Įgmond not only built guitars under their own name, but Egmond also produced other labels like Wilson, Miller, Manhattan, Lion, Caladonie, Lido, Frima, Rosetti, Orpheum, Royal, Royalist, Alpha, Vega and Roderich Paesold a long list. 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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