Cort - manufacturer of electric and bass guitars. Manufacturing concentrated in South Korea. The company is one of the largest manufacturers of guitars in the world, also produces tools for other companies. Cort
- manufacturer of electric and bass guitars. Production is concentrated in South Korea. The company is one of the largest manufacturers of guitars in the world, also produces tools for other companies.
History
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Vesteymer Jack (Jack Westheimer) has established business relations with Japanese manufacturers of guitars in 1960 years to import guitars made in Japan in U.S. . Jack Vestemerom often associated many brands, such as Teisco , Cortez , Pearl Drums , Silvertone , Kingston , Cort and others. In 1973 -year Jack Vesteymer together with business partner Young Park (Yung H. Park) established a South Korean company Yoo-Ah ( Engl. «you-and-I» - «You and I-» ). Cort Guitars - manufacturer of guitars, based in South Korea. This is one of the largest manufactures in the world of guitar, which produces tools for many companies.
History Corta is based on the work of Jack Vesthaymera. Vesthaymer was one of the first promoters of the Japanese and South Korean guitars. Title CORT formed by CORTEZ, brand acoustic, mostly guitar from Japan under contract Vesthaymera. Vesthaymer founded Yoo-Ah with a partner Young H. Park in 1973, and the factory for the production was built in South Korea. This factory eventually became the current factory CORT. Mark CORT was used as early as 1960, but Only since the 1970 brand has attracted attention.
Park remains the chief administrator of CORT. Main factory is located in Incheon, South Korea. Also open to other factory in South Korea in Daejeon, for acoustic guitars. In addition, in Surabaya, Indonesia, is a third factory CORT. Since 2008 factory for imports into Canada and America became the country's factory in Hokkaido, Japan. Usually CORT release over 600 000 guitars annually.
Models
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Cort has no model that defines the brand, like a Stratocaster a Fender or a Les Paul from Gibson. Instead, Cort produces a very large line of guitars to meet the needs of different guitar players in a variety of genres. Cort produces many a variety of acoustic, electric guitars and elektrobasov in the concept of creating a good product at a competitive price.
Electric
Series G
G-series was created after the Fender Stratocaster - the characteristic "stratovskaya" body shape, vintage style tremolo, Bolt-on maple neck, the deck of lime or swamp ash, Scale 25,5 ". Model G200 even has a standard configuration for Stratocaster Pickup - SSS (three singles), while the remaining series models are configured HSS (in the bridge position humbucker is located), which is more typical for the Fender Fat Strat.
Deck Junior Series models (G200, G210, G250, G254) produced from American linden (basswood), while as the older models (G260, G280, G290) produced from swamp ash (swamp ash).
Models G250, G254, G260, G280 are equipped with Tremolo Wilkinson VS50 II.
All models have a 5-way switch pickups (such as blade, typical Stratocaster), a tone knob, one volume knob. Model, starting with the G250 and above are equipped with shutoff pickups (coil tap), which allows using a push-pull on the controller to switch the bridge pickup humbucker tone in a single mode.
G110
G200
G210
G250
G254
G260
G280
G290
Series M («Mirage»)
Series M established based on instruments PRS (Paul Reed Smith). Guitars in this series have typical PRS rounded hull shape with two notches (so-called cutaway) of the neck, two humbucker, deck and neck of mahogany, the neck on all models except the M200 pasted. Scale of all M-series guitars is 24,75 ".
budget model M200 differs from other tools This series screwed to the deck maple neck (in other models of their mahogany neck and pasted into the body), and the lack of cut-off (on all other models to set the tone push-pull, which allows you to control the cutoff humbuckers).
Model M900 is a semi-acoustic guitar.
Official specifications indicated that the model M600, M600 T, and M900 have topom of fire or cross-grained maple, but according to some semblance of maple stamp creates fotofleym, covering the body.
M200 (Bolt-on maple neck)
M520
M600
M600 T (M600 variation with vintage tremolo instead of a license TOM TonePros)
M900 (semi-acoustic)
Series KX («Katana»)
KX5
KX5 FR
KX1Q
KX101
KX-Custom
Серия Zenox
Z22
Z40
Z42
Z44
Z64
Z-Custom
Серия X
X-1
X-2
X-5
X-6
X-6 SM
X-11
X-Custom HT
X-TH
Серия EVL
EVL-Z2
EVL-K2
EVL-Z4
EVL-Z47
EVL-K4
EVL-K6
EVL-Z6
Серия VX
VX-2V
VX-4V
VX-2X
VX-4X
Серия Jazz box
Source
Yourktown
Series Signature (signature tools)
HBS-II
NZS-2
Series Special edition
X-2 SA
X-6 SA
X-Custom SA
G250 FT
EVL-Z2 (WH)
EVL-K6 (WP)
Electro
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EVL series, G series, KX series, M series, X series, Zenox series, Jazz box series, Masterpiece series, Signature series. In addition to models produced in the present time, CORT produced a series of S, Viva and many others. Several of the earliest CORT were direct copies of popular моделей типа Stratocaster.
Акустика
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Limited Edition series, Earth series, SFX series, NTL series, CJ series, MR series, Classical series, Standard series
Басы
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Masterpiece series, Signature series, GB series, Artisan series, Curbow series, PB1L series, Action series, EVdypa!
Parkwood
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until 2006 CORT produced a line of high-quality guitars under the name of CORT PARKWOOD. In 2006, CORT PARKWOOD brought in its own brand and now this product is no emblem CORT. CORT PARKWOOD continues to manufacture in South Korea.
Contract Manufacturing
main production is focused not on Cort guitars brand Cort, but rather to work contracts for other companies. Many large companies use CORT to produce inexpensive guitars under his own name. Ibanez, Parkwood, Schecter, a copy of G & L and the line of Squier by Fender - among the most brands, which produces Cort. In recent years, small companies, known extremely high quality guitars (and high prices) have begun to use Court to release the budget series. Avalon, based in Northern Ireland, has sold 8,000 guitars and more than doubled its profit last year after contracting с 'Cort'.
Источник: wikipedia
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