my pink kay strat

ah yeah playin my kay strat Company History Kay Guitar Company primarily produced inexpensive department store style guitars from the 1930’s to the 1960’s. Kay guitar is a part of the Kay Musical Instrument Company that has manufactured professional and student instruments since the 1890’s. Kay also produced a high end guitar that today is extremely collectable. In 1957 president Sydney Katz introduced the Gold “K” line of archtop and solid body electric guitars to compete with major manufacturers like Fender, Gibson, and Gretsch. Valued among collectors, the headstocks from 1957-1960 featured a reverse painted plastic overlay similar to the Kelvinator logo. The guitars featured art deco patterns. It was difficult to get players to take Kay’s high end entry seriously, and the Gold line was discontinued in 1962. The company was sold to Valco in 1967 and driven out of business two years later by low cost Asian imports.[citation needed] Kay’s current line includes low priced acoustic, electric and bass guitars, and moderately priced banjos, ukuleles, mandolins and resonators. They also sell the Chicago Blues line of inexpensive harmonicas. Kay manufactured guitars under different names: ‘Old Kraftsman’ guitars for Spiegel, ‘Sherwood’ and ‘Airline’ for Montgomery Wards, and ‘Silvertone’ for Sears. Gold “K” Line The gold “K” Line featured the Jazz Special, Artist, Pro, Upbeat, Jazz II, and Jazz Special Bass. Gold “K” guitars used the same hardware as top manufacturers. There …
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