Gower) decided he wanted to build guitars. Alma Moore’s husband Kellice Moore built a machine out of an old sewing machine and an old part from a car to wind the pickups. They built acoustics and electrics from 1955 until the early 1960’s. After a few months, they had purchased some woodworking equipment and had a brick building built by their duplex where they lived. This did not work well but they still got the Guitar together. The first guitar was made by bending the sides on a tree. Gower and his sister Alma Moore started the Gower Company. The below is some history by Ricky Moore and Randy Gower Gower and Ricky Moore who’s mother was Alma Moore. I will let two of my relatives who were there at the time and remember, tell the history…one being Randy Gower who’s father was J.W. I will never forget that smell of wood and glue…I also remember the studio and walking in with my cousin Ricky and seeing egg crates on the wall. I remember when I was 4 or 5 and walking into the Grammer guitar shop in the early 70s around the time it ended. In the sixties, my family also built a studio where singer-songwriters Joe South, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Ray Stevens, Johnny Bragg and drummer D. The Green sunburst hollow body electric I have has a Gibson 335 feel and the mahogany solid body electric I have with original DeArmond pickups I would put it against any Gibson SG… Well, the electrics I have are more than that.

He said because acoustics took craftmanship and electrics were basically “2 x 4’s with strings.” I asked my dad once why they didn’t make more electric guitars. They all play great and the acoustics have the feel of a Martin. They didn’t make a lot of electric guitars. I don’t want them only for the family connection…they sound great.

They are rare…if you run up on one for a good price grab it.

I keep my eye out for them but on eBay, they are anywhere between $1500 – $5000 and more. Country artists such as Johnny Cash, Leon Rhodes, Gordon Terry, and George Jones played Gower and Grammer Guitars.

They are part of my family heritage that I had nothing to do with…My family built guitars (Gower Guitars and Grammer Guitars) starting in the 1950s and made them until the 1970s. I have three Gowers and one Grammer Guitar and I’m really proud to have them.

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