Loog Guitars makes compact musical instruments designed to get children playing, learning, and falling in love with music from day one. Its signature three-string guitars are real wood instruments sized for small hands, paired with chord flashcards, video lessons, and a learning app that helps beginners move naturally toward a standard guitar. The company also makes a portable digital piano and a small ukulele, extending the same beginner-focused approach beyond guitar.
C. F. Martin & Co., IncFounded in 1833, C. F. Martin & Co. is a family-owned and operated musical-instrument maker that has remained under family ownership for six generations. The company builds acoustic guitars and ukuleles, and has also manufactured its own strings since acquiring Darco Strings in 1970. Its instruments are handcrafted in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, while Martin strings are made at the company’s facility in Navojoa, Mexico.NAZARETH, PA
The Loo BoosFounded by mom and inventor Karrima Muhammad, The Loo Boos makes children’s hygiene products centered on its patented Loo Boo Scrub, a musical bath scrubber that teaches kids to wash from head to toe through a seven-minute guided song. Its character-led approach brings the human microbiome into bath time, turning hygiene lessons into playful science and helping children build confidence and independence.GLEN BURNIE, MD
Instruments of AfricaInstruments of Africa designs and produces African electric guitars shaped by the continent’s landscapes, blending African cultural inspiration with modern technology and craftsmanship. Based in Lagos, the company’s African Electric Guitar line includes distinctive instruments such as the Nairobi Limited Edition, whose neck-through-body construction forms the continent’s silhouette in a single piece of wood. Its guitars have also been used in Afrobeat sound production.OWINGS MILLS, MD