Campbell Guitars
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Campbell Guitar Company of Detroit was founded by Frank Campbell in the late 19th Century. Frank's son John Burdett Campbell continued the family business as a sideline to real estate. None of his three sons took serious interest in the family business. John B. Campbell died many years before grandson Scott Campbell began making custom guitars, amplifiers, and basses in the early 1970s. Purchase of the remaining original 1953 Maccaferri guitar bodies has given the company a monopoly on Maccaferri body electric guitars. Campbell Guitars also one of perhaps three electric guitar companies in Michigan, where the world's first electric guitar factory started in 1935. Other Michigan guitar companies include Heritage Guitars of Kalamazoo, founded by former Gibson employees after Gibson moved their operations to Nashville, and Reverend Guitars of Detroit.
