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Godin started building guitars over twenty years ago in a village in Quebec Canada called La Patrie. The man that started it all is Robert Godin. Robert still owns the company and he continues to design the vast majority of our guitars.

Godin are a Canadian company with our head office located in Montreal and we build our guitars in several different locations, five in Quebec and one in New Hampshire. For those of you keeping score, that adds up to six factories spread out over about 1000 kilometers. So why not just have one giant guitar factory? Although there are some obvious inconveniences associated with spreading ourselves out this much, the up-side is that these smaller operations promote a more intimate working environment which gets everybody more involved and this is reflected in the instruments themselves.

Godin guitars are assembled in our Richmond, Quebec and Berlin, New Hampshire factories. The necks and bodies are all made in our original location in La Patrie, Quebec.
We are also known for our other guitar brands which include our new electric line known as Richmond Guitars, as well as our acoustic brands which include: Seagull, Simon & Patrick, Norman, LaPatrie and Art & Lutherie.

From the beginning the company has been more or less divided between  our  acoustic side and electric side. The electric side of our business  was  originally that of a parts supplier to other guitar companies. We  built  their necks and bodies. You might be amazed to find out how many   different guitar brands are all being produced in the same handful of   factories. We're not telling you this because we want to divulge   somebody's secrets but simply to let you know where we're coming from.   In any case, what started out as some generic replacement necks and   bodies soon evolved into a major business producing finished necks and   bodies for many established U.S. guitar companies.

The great thing about  this is the tremendous experience that we gained building all of these  instruments to their various specifications. The down side is that the  sub-contracting business is a pain in the neck, so to speak, but more  importantly it does not include the best part of building new guitars  and that is: coming up with new designs and coaxing them through the  process that begins with a sketch and ends with the music.

Unlike  many other instruments that follow a fairly strict set of design  parameters-such as most orchestral instruments-guitars truly lend  themselves to variation in design. This capacity for variation manifests  itself in two distinct ways, there is the purely visual variation such  as, the  lightning-bolt-shaped-pointy-headstock-you're-obviously-not-in-an-easy-listening-band  guitar. In other words, guitars as fashion statements. Don't get us  wrong, we are committed to high aesthetic values in all of our designs  but what we find most compelling is the other type of variation inspired  by the endless musical possibilities in guitar design. From designing a  Nylon string guitar that can be played at stage volumes and feel  comfortable to a primarily steel string player (Multiacs) to the  creation of the multiple-voice instruments in our Signature Series,  exploring new design possibilities is an integral part of what we do.