Mayones Guitars & Basses, established in 1982, is a manufacturer of

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s and

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

s, located in

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

. They specialize in building handcrafted and custom instruments.

Basic Models

Guitars

- Aquila - Regius - Duvell - Legend

Discontinued

* Vidius * Maestro * Virtuoso * Setius

Bass guitars

- Jabba - Caledonius - Comodus - Patriot - Viking

Discontinued

* BE * Elegance * Prestige * Slogan * Victorious

Artists

Some notable artists that use/have used Mayones instruments now and in the past: * Aaron Marshall (

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) * Adel Rouhnavaz ( Acrovaya) *Alber Sanmiguel (Enki) *

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) *Andy Slade (Collapse, Echovirus) *Adam Christianson (ARCHITECTS) *Adam Zieliński
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) *Amadeus Awad (Amadeus Awad & Amadeus Awad's EON) *Ali Dean (ARCHITECTS) *Alex Mauric (I Vs. I) *Andy Ionescu (Taine) *Bart Hennephof ( Textures) *Brian van Zwietering (Dr.Jekyll) *Cristian Giurgiu (Tableau Mort) *

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) *Dennis Notebaart
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*Hugo Markaida ( Rise to Fall) *Jakob Batten (

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(ex- Textures) *Juan Tides (Pervy Perkin) *

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* Lena Abé (

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(Dark Tranquillity) *Paul Jackson ( T'Pau) * Per Eriksson (Katatonia & Bloodbath) * Patrick Sheridan (Fit For An Autopsy) *Paul Notebaart (Dr.Jekyll) *Peter "PeteyG" Graves (Red Seas Fire, CAGE) *Piotr Grudziński (

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) *Pontus Hjelm (

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) *Prashant Shah ( Scribe (band)) *Roger Williams * Ruud Adrianus Jolie (Within Temptation) *Ryan Siew (Solo/Polaris) *Rick Sschneider (Polaris) *Scott Kay (Voyager) *Sylvain Coudret (Soilwork, Scarve) *Shaun Murphy (The Summoned) *Sergey Mavrin (Ария) *Stephan Schultz (

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) *Viacheslav Kocharin (Психея) *Thorsten Geschwandtner (Nump) *Tom Searle (Architects) * Wojtek Pilichowski ( Woobie Doobie) *

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References

External links

Official website
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