Jolana (guitar brand)

Especially during the 1960s, it gained popularity in the United Kingdom, with famous musicians such as George Harrison, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton using its guitar models.

The history of musical instruments manufacturing in former Czechoslovakia started when engineer Ferdinand Machalek created the first piano pickup in the middle 1940s.

The model was exported by Resonet under the name "Futurama", with notable musicians such as George Harrison, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton among its users.

[2] Jolana continued making electric guitars and basses until the end of the 1980s, developing models such as "Diamant" – a Gibson Les Paul copy.

The company began OEM production of guitars for renewed foreign brands such as Epiphone, Hohner, Spector, American Showster, MTD and others.

In 2003, "New Bohemian Electronics Corp" (NBE), a manufacturing company established two years before, bought the brand "Jolana" to Delicia, which therefore ceased to produce guitars, focusing on other instruments.