In the early 60’s, as the electric guitar turned out to be a mass market product, Orpheum stopped selling American made instruments and began importing cheap European instruments made by Wandré. vintage market, they surely do not compare to Gretsches or Gibsons but own a specific post-war or early 50’s charm all the same. Hollow-bodies from that era with a Orpheum logo appear from time to time on the U.S. of New York for a range of stringed instruments, positioned in the same market segment as Kay, e.g. In the 1930’s the company began marketing acoustic then archtop jazz guitars and even wind instruments but that business ceased during WW-II.īy the end of the war the trade name was recycled by the Maurice Lipsky Music Co., Inc. The Orpheum brand was used already in the late 19th century by an American banjo maker.
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