Kalamazoo — When the guys at Heritage Guitar Inc. developed a new guitar model, they would show it at a large guitar industry trade show. If retailers there were interested, they’d buy a ...

KALAMAZOO When Gibson Guitar's Parsons Street factory cranked out its last Les Paul guitar, Marvin Lamb had to have it.Lamb started working for Gibson in 1956, at age 16. He hand-drilled holes in ...

Editor's note: This is one in a series of stories about Kalamazoo's guitar-making heritage. Go here to read the full series. KALAMAZOO, MI -- After years of local workers fighting to show ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A guitar factory in Kalamazoo is teaming up with Rolling Stone in an effort to turn the historic site into a national music destination. Heritage Guitar owners announced ...

But did you know that a group of women in Kalamazoo worked on a special kind of war material? The Gibson Guitar Factory is where women worked hard, making beautiful guitars. It's forgotten history ...