Daisy Rock Girl Guitars is a

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company founded in 2000 by Tish Ciravolo. The company, currently a

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of KMC Music, produces

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and acoustic guitars,

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s and

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History

Tish Ciravolo credits her oldest daughter Nicole for inspiring her to create Daisy Rock Girl Guitars. When Nicole was one-and-a-half years old, she drew a picture of a daisy while coloring with her mother. Tish was inspired to draw a guitar neck and headstock on the picture. She developed the design and took it to her husband, Michael Ciravolo, the President of Schecter Guitar Research. The resulting first model, the "Daisy" guitar, debuted in November 2000 at Seattle's '' ROCKRGRL'' music conference. During the conference, musician

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saw the guitar and liked it so much she autographed it. In 2006, the Courtney Love signed Daisy Rock Guitar was inducted into the NAMM Museum of Making Music, along with the original drawings by Nicole Ciravolo. Daisy Rock Guitars entered into a partnership and under this agreement, Alfred Publishing became the co-owner and distributor of Daisy Rock Girl Guitars. Sales in 2003 grew surpassed $1 million. In 2004, sales surpassed $2 million. Daisy Rock Guitars and Alfred Publishing terminated their partnership in 2016. That same year, Daisy Rock Girl signed an agreement with KMC Music, a company belonging to

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. KMC distributes Daisy Rock products worldwide.KMC SIGNS DAISY ROCK LICENSING AGREEMENT
by Matthew Van Dyke on Music and Sound Retailer, July 18, 2016

References

External links

Official website
{{Alfred Music Guitar manufacturing companies of the United States Musical instrument manufacturing companies based in Los Angeles 2000 establishments in California