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Mosrite

American guitar manufacturing company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Mosrite was an American guitar manufacturing company, established in Bakersfield, California in 1956 and active until 1993. Founded by Semie Moseley, Mosrite guitars were played by many artists, most notably country stars Joe Maphis and Buck Owens, surf rocker Nokie Edwards of the Ventures, and punk rocker Johnny Ramone of the Ramones.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mosrite” is american guitar manufacturing company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mosrite, American and guitar, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mosrite, American and guitar is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “american guitar manufacturing company” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1956 and 1993.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mosrite”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mosrite primary sources, Mosrite archive and Mosrite research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mosrite”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Mosrite” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.