Larrivee

Larrivée Guitars
Larrivée Guitars was founded 1n 1968 by Jean Larrivee in Toronto, Canada.

Over the years it has grown into a large manufacturing outfit and moved, now being located in Vancouver, Canada, with a second factory in California, (there is a full history on the website), and they proudly boast "every Larrivée is built using all solid wood. No plys, laminates, or "layered" woods are ever used". As well as making Guitars they make Mandolins, and in the past they made Ukuleles too, mainly for the Japanese market.

The earliest Ukulele I have seen from Larrivee is 1996 but they stopped production in 2006. During this period they made mostly Sopranos, but some Concerts too in mahogany, spruce and koa. The story is they stopped making Ukuleles because none of the craftsmen wanted to make them?

Jean Larrivee regularly said the Ukulele production would start again and it started again in 2015 with Tenors and Baritones added to the range but this resurgence was only short lived and Ukuleles are not in the catalogue now.