I have played on and off for fifty years. Never have I concerned myself about whowhich company made the guitar. My last purchase was a Larrivee. I chose it because from that room of over eighty guitars it was the one that worked for me. However, if the one that worked had been a scratched Zelda Pertz mass-produced plywood construction machine, that's what I'd be playing now. Glad it worked out for you, Gary T.