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where, after five years as the vice president of guitar merchandising, he was promoted to the position of vice president of merchandising and creative at the company's direct-response division, Musician's Friend. There, he oversaw both the purchasing and creative teams producing the company's catalog
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Keith sold his guitar designs to Guitar Center to be used as the Laguna brand, currently sold as an in-store brand. The Laguna guitars are modeled after Keith's designs, right down to the headstock, although the production of Laguna is in Indonesia, rather than South Korea. Later, Brawley was
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with either Wilkinson and Floyd Rose vibrato bars. A twin humbucker hardtail model was also made. The fit, finish, and feature of Brawley's fretted instruments represented a very strong value-for-money at the time. Keith Brawley likened his guitars to Lexus cars in press interviews.
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Brawley also produced a range of bass guitars in four-string, five-string and six-string versions. The top-of-the-line models featured neck-through body construction and all of them had a 35-inch scale length, as opposed to the standard 34-inch scale developed by
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showed great success with Brawley instruments, including Costa Mesa's "Cobra Music". There are many bands that can be seen using Brawley Guitars including Charles Jirkovsky of San Diego band "All in Favor" and Brian Sun of "Residual FX."
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was a large dealer of Brawley guitars, but the music store chain failed amidst overheated expansion, taking down Brawley guitars with it. Keith Brawley subsequently worked for
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on the first electric basses. These were known as the Artemis series and featured humbucking pickups on all models and active electronics on all but the entry-level model.
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brand. The founder, Keith Brawley, has worked in the guitar industry as product designer and marketing executive, having also been an executive for
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between 2000 and 2002. All featured a solid body with a contour top,
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Follow-up article detailing modifications to a Brawley A-122
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Some Southern California stores such as Jim’s Music in
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appointed as Chief Business Development Officer for
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Musical instruments
Temecula, California
United States
Electric guitars
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guitar manufacturing
Fender
Squier
Temecula, California
electric guitars
basses
guitars
South Korea
bolt-on neck
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pickups
humbucker
Leo Fender
Mars music stores
Guitar Center
Taylor Guitars
Irvine, California
Monterey Park
Thousand Oaks, California


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