G&L Music Instruments, the Fullerton guitar-making shop launched by the legendary
Leo Fender, has gone silent after 45 years.
News of the company’s closure hasn’t been confirmed by anyone at
G&L. But on Friday, Oct. 31, the evidence started piling up. While the closure was first broached on G&L fan pages, a museum curator with a permanent collection of
Leo Fender artifacts and a contractor who worked for G&L for decades appeared to confirm early conjecture.
Neither David nor John McLaren, the brothers who owned BBE Sound and G&L Musical Instruments, could be reached for comment on Friday. But according to the California Secretary of State’s online business search tool, BBE, which was the parent company of G&L, terminated its corporate status with the state on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
As well, the fact that loads of the company’s parts and materials have been tossed into dumpsters throughout October only adds to the circumstantial confirmation that G&L, this last direct connection to
Leo Fender‘s instrumental genius, has gone dark.
