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The company was the first American piano wire company and the first to patent the manufacturing process for piano wire. Over the years its Mapes Gold Standard has become "the" gold standard in piano strings. The company's piano wire continues to be used in Steinway pianos. Mapes' guitar string wire is sold to such companies as D'Addario, Fender, Peavey, and C. F. Martin & Co. for guitars, banjos, and mandolins. The company also makes specialty wires used for mechanical springs and for the automotive and defense industries.

The company distributes AXL guitars, amps, and accessories; CODA drums and percussion instruments; Johnson guitars and amps; Lucinda classical and flamenco guitars; and Palatino pianos and string and wind instruments; AXL makes Johnson, Lucinda, and Palatino-branded products. Other brands include Recording King and Guardian. The Music Link operates two warehouses: one in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the other in San Francisco. The fast-growing firm sells its products through a network of about 4,000 dealers nationwide.

Thomastik-Infeld, the company they founded in 1919, still manufacturers steel and nylon strings for bowed and plucked instruments including aoud, cello, guitar, mandolin, and violin. In all the company produces more than 3,000 types of strings annually. The company also manufactures tailpieces and rosin for members of the violin family. The company sells its products worldwide through various retail outlets;John M. Connolly & Co. is the exclusive US importer of Thomastik-Infeld strings.

The company produces and imports mass-market acoustic and electric guitars at prices of up to $3,000. One of the US's top guitar makers (behind Fender, Gibson, and Martin), US Music also makes banjos, mandolins, and basses under the Washburn name. In addition, it manufactures Parker guitars and basses, Oscar Schmidt autoharps and ukuleles, Randall amplifiers and Eden bass amplifiers, Vinci guitar strings, and SoundTech professional audio equipment. Founded in 1883, the company was bought by president and CEO Rudy Schlacher in 1983. It changed its name from Washburn International to US Music in 2003.

Ultimate Support Systems makes tripods for lighting and speakers, guitar, keyboard, microphone, and studio monitor stands. The company also designs and manufactures bags and cases for guitars, keyboards, and drums. Ultimate Support Systems outsources the majority of its manufacturing and assembly functions and sells through its catalog in the US and internationally. Founded in 1977 by Darrell Schoenig (a Christian musician and hang glider), who applied the technology of lightweight hang-glider tubing to music stands, the company is owned by Mike Belitz, who purchased it in 2007.

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