Sandberg Guitars
The German company Sandberg Guitars is a musical instrument manufacturing company from Braunschweig that manufactures electric basses and guitars .
Company history
Sandberg Guitars was founded in 1986 by Holger Stonjek and his friend Gerd Gorzelke. When it was founded, Holger Stonjek was training to be a piano maker at the Braunschweig-based company Wilhelm Schimmel Pianofortefabrik GmbH . The Sandberg company took its name from its first workshop address at Am Sandberg in Ehmen .
Products
Sandberg is best known for eight different series of electric basses:
- Basic series
- Classic series
- California T-series
- California V-series
- Custom series
- Electra series
- Panther series
- Terrabass
Since the spring of 2010, the Sandberg company has also been selling mass-produced electric guitar models:
- California ST-H-series
- California ST-S-series
- California DC series
- Florence series
The California electric guitar series are based on a further developed form of the Fender Stratocaster . In addition to the standard program, a custom shop produces instruments (electric guitars and electric basses) that are individually manufactured according to customer requirements.
Well-known musicians who play Sandberg instruments
- Peter Baumann, Beatsteaks guitarist
- Thorsten Becker, bass player from Callejon
- Mario Erdmann, bassist from Wild Frontier
- Flux, guitarist from Oomph!
- Markus Grosskopf , Helloween bassist
- Paul Jackson, bass player for Paul Parker, T'Pau
- Jason "Jay" James, bass player for Bullet for My Valentine
- Cindia Krüger, bassist for the Farin Urlaub Racing Team
- Bernd Kurtzke, guitarist for Beatsteaks
- Rüde Linhof, bassist from Sportfreunde Stiller
- Georg Listing, Tokio Hotel bassist
- Uwe Lost, bassist from Truckstop
- Niko Maurer, bassist with Madsen
- Ida Kristine Nielsen , bassist for Prince
- Oliver Riedel , bassist from Rammstein
- Torsten Scholz, Beatsteaks bass player
- Ines Smentkowski, bassist for the Broilers
- Johannes Stolle , bass player from Silbermond
- Ken Taylor , studio and live bassist with Peter Maffay , Bruce Springsteen , Brian May
- Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß , guitarist and singer of the Beatsteaks
- Anthony Ieva, bassist for Brainstorm
- Fredrik Edling, Dream Drop
literature
- Report on the company in the guitar & bass magazine, issue 04/2004 (accessed on May 20, 2009)
Web links
- Sandberg company website ( Adobe Flash plug-in required)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guitar & Bass - the musicians' magazine , June 2010 issue, p. 114 ff .: Test report Sandberg California ST-S . ISSN 0934-7674