Kluson Manufacturing Company
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The Kluson Manufacturing Company, founded in 1925, was a prominent manufacturer of musical instrument tuning machines.
The company was founded as a machine shop by John Kluson in Chicago in 1925.[1] Kluson had previously run a machine shop for Harmony Company. Kluson Manufacturing soon found a niche making tuners for string instruments, most prominently for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, to whom they were a major supplier. They also supplied other major guitar makers such as Fender, Martin, and Rickenbacker, among others.
Kluson lost one of their most important customers in 1976 when Gibson switched to Schaller tuning machines.[2] The company continued until 1981, when it folded.[3]