How many guitar brands are there?

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This is like asking, how long is a piece of string? There are more brands than can be counted. This is because the factories in the east that produce mass production instruments often change name, and will label the same instrument with different labels depending on which market it is going to.
Then there are the individual luthiers, small companies, large companies, toy shops hobbiests.

The answer to this therefore would have to be infinite.

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