Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian - both partners in the Axis of Justice - joined representatives of the Cort workers in a protest concert against Cort and Cor-tek on January 13, 2010, at the Nanum Cultural Center in Los Angeles. On July 12, 2007, a Cort worker set himself on fire in protest, and on October 15, 2008, workers conducted a 30-day hunger strike and sit-in occupation on a 40-meter electricity tower. Grievances include the closing of its Daejon factory with no advance warning on April 9, 2007, mass redundancies of all staff from its Incheon plant on April 12, 2007, and the firing and mistreatment of union officials and members. Since 1997 controversy has surrounded Korean factories of Cort and Cor-Tek due to its alleged mistreatment of factory workers. Avalon Guitars, based in Northern Ireland, sold 8,000 guitars and more than doubled their income from the previous year when they contracted Cort to build a lower-priced guitar for them. In recent years, small companies known for extremely high quality (and high-priced) guitars have begun contracting Cort to produce budget line models.
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Ibanez, PRS (SE line), Parkwood, Squier, G&L Tribute series line of guitars are among the most well-known brands that Cort produces. Generally, large companies contract Cort to build lower-priced guitars that have that company's brand on them. These guitars are generally highly regarded and appear to be heavily influenced by higher-end PRS models, in both quality standards and style.Ĭort's main production focus is not on Cort-brand guitars, but rather on contract work for numerous other companies. So far Cort has released an MMP1, with 'tree of life' inlay up the neck and finished in antique sunburst, an MMP2 and MMP3 available in "transparent cannon blue" and "brown burst" finishes. Somewhere between 25 and 50 of each MMP model were released. Cort has released a limited production run of MMP series electric guitars from its own custom shop. The Cort M-Series is as close to a signature shape as Cort gets across its range. Masterpiece (MMP) Series electric guitars Cort continues to manufacture the Parkwood brand in South Korea although it is printed "Handcrafted in China" inside the guitar body. This is a brand sold exclusively through big box stores such as Guitar Center.
In 2006, Cort turned Parkwood into a brand of its own and now does not feature the Cort name or logo. Up until 2006, Cort manufactured a line of high quality guitars under the name 'Cort Parkwood'. Several of the earliest Corts were direct copies of popular models such as the Stratocaster. In addition to the models currently being made, Cort has produced many others, including the "S" series guitars (Stellar, Sterling, Starlite), the "Viva" guitars, "MGM" ( Matt Guitar Murphy), "Freedom" bass ( Billy Cox), Neil Zaza, Larry Coryell, "Elrick" bass, "J Triggs" ( Jim Triggs), "Katana", and "Effector". Instead, Cort produces a wide variety of electric guitars, acoustic guitars, acoustic bass guitars, and electric basses. Models Ĭort does not have a specific model of guitar that could be called its “signature”, like the Stratocaster for Fender or the Les Paul for Gibson. This development helped bring the Cort name to the mainstream electric guitar market and attracted the attention of other well-known brand name companies seeking contract guitar manufacturers in Korea. Cort began production of headless guitars in 1984 with designs exclusively licensed from Ned Steinberger for Cort's own brand as well as for brands like Hohner and Kramer. The company eventually changed its name to Cort Musical Instruments, focused on guitars as it became much more proficient at it than producing pianos and released the first Cort-branded guitars in 1982.
At this early stage of the company's history, Soo Doh was strictly an OEM supplier to other foreign brand name companies. The business slowly evolved from a piano importer to a manufacturer and sales division then finally into a guitar manufacturer in 1973. At that time, the company was called Soo Doh Piano. Z-Custom Open Pore Natural Burst, from Zenox SeriesĬort was founded in 1960 as an importer of pianos by current CEO Young Park's father.
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