Jerry Jones Guitars was a

musical instrument A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who pl ...

manufacturer (mostly

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

s) based in

Nashville Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the ...

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

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. The company specialized in making

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s and basses based on Danelectro's designs from the 1950s and 1960s. They also made some more unusual instruments such as six-string bass guitars, baritone guitars, sitar guitars, the shorty octave 12-string and the guitarlin, which is a hybrid of a guitar and a

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

. Many of the company's instrument designs borrowed heavily from the early designs. In the spring of 2011, Jerry Jones announced that he was retiring and closing the factory. By May, the manufacturing equipment was sold.

Instruments

;Guitars *Shorthorn guitar *Single-cutaway guitar ;Basses *Longhorn 4-string bass *Longhorn 6-string bass *Shorthorn 4-string bass *Single cutaway 6-string bass ;Baritones *Shorthorn baritone *Single-cutaway baritone ;12-strings *Single-cutaway 12-string *Shorty octave 12-string ;Sitars *Supreme sitar *Master sitar *Baby sitar ;Other *Guitarlin

External links

Official site
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