Washburn has been making instruments since before the end of the war—the Civil War, that is—and started offering guitars in 1883. Though the company has changed owners a few times since (and more or less disappeared for a decade or three mid-20th century), it has enjoyed several periods of renown with quality, affordable guitars and other fretted instruments made both in the U.S. and abroad.
In the last few years the company has introduced the Comfort series of guitars—which are designed for, well, comfort—and the Revival lineup of instruments that summons the ghosts of Washburn’s earliest guitars.
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