fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
- Joined
- May 3, 2007
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Usually someone else posts the interesting Reverb articles before I do, but I have not seen this one here. Perhaps the fear that we cannot discuss a trade embargo from several decades ago without getting into current events is (justifiably) inhibiting folks?
"Following the end of World War II, the British Board of Trade controlled imports to try to improve the UK’s balance of payments...among the restricted manufactured goods were musical items, namely gramophone records, harmonicas and their parts, musical boxes and their movements, stringed instruments (including guitars), wind instruments (not including organs), and some organ parts."
Article discusses some of the brands that were available or imported, the effort some folks went to get American guitars and name drops Guild (in the same breath as Martin and Gibson) a couple of times.
https://reverb.com/news/the-british-guitar-embargo-when-brits-were-banned-from-buying-american
"Following the end of World War II, the British Board of Trade controlled imports to try to improve the UK’s balance of payments...among the restricted manufactured goods were musical items, namely gramophone records, harmonicas and their parts, musical boxes and their movements, stringed instruments (including guitars), wind instruments (not including organs), and some organ parts."
Article discusses some of the brands that were available or imported, the effort some folks went to get American guitars and name drops Guild (in the same breath as Martin and Gibson) a couple of times.
https://reverb.com/news/the-british-guitar-embargo-when-brits-were-banned-from-buying-american