Guangzhou Kapok Guitar Co., Ltd. (former Guangdong Musical Instrument Factory), founded in 1957, has a history of over 50 years. The company, enjoying couples of private brands like Kapok, Rivertone and G.great, keeps involving in musical instrument R&D, production, marketing and service by centering on core technology. For many years, Kapok branded musical instruments have been well-known for exquisite craftwork, elegant design, beautiful tone, loud sound and strong penetrating power. The company now has developed into “the largest guitar manufacturer of China” and a leading corporation in guitar industry of China, and the company is highly appraised by domestic and foreign customers.

Guangzhou Kapok Guitar Co., Ltd. enjoys internationally top grade guitar production technology. Due to professional technology and great efforts for better quality, the company has been awarded special honors for many times including “gold prize of national light industry export product expo”, “best selling China-made goods”, “excellent product award of national musical instrument expo”, “excellent product award of Guangdong musical instrument”, “excellent product award of national light industry”, “China famous brand product”, “Guangdong famous brand product” and “Guangdong famous brand”. In virtue of striving for high quality and excellence, the company was elected, in 2010-2011, as top 50 musical instrument producers of China, and recognized as “culture export key enterprise of China 2010-2011”. Kapok branded musical instrument is not only at a leading position in China musical instrument industry, but also famous abroad: in 1980, kapok branded violin made mainly by Chen Jinnong, violin maker master from Guangdong Musical Instrument Factory, was awarded gold medal for tone quality at the 4th USA International Violin Making Competition (New York); in 1982, Xu Fu, violin maker, was awarded with double prizes of tone quality and craftwork at the 5th USA International Violin Making Competition; in 1983, the violin made mainly by Chen Jinnong was awarded with prize of tone quality at the 1st Germany Louis Spohr International Violin Making Competition. Nowadays, Kapok branded musical instrument are well sold to each quarter of the world in this industry.

For recent years, Kapok Guitar persists in carrying out a strategy of innovation. Taking technology core as the main body and cultivation of independent intellectual property rights as the core, Kapok Guitar tries its best to achieve comprehensive improvement in core competence of the corporation, and steadily develop from a traditional manufacturing enterprise into a new type of enterprise with independent intellectual property rights, self-owned brand and sustainable innovation capacity. Kapok Guitar currently serves as the main compiler for revising China guitar industry standard – Electric Guitar QB/T 2169-2006 and Guitar QB/T1153-2006, and has successfully applied more patents than any other, on guitar industry of China; in 2011, the system of photosensitive coating on wooden guitar performed with static spraying technology, which was developed by the company, was awarded with third prize of scientific and technological progress in light industry and successfully applied for national patent. Brand advantages and advanced technology benefit Kapok Guitar to a pacemaker for domestic guitar industry.