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NB: Please make sure you are reading this Guitarz post at and not on a Scraper blog that copies posts without permission (and steals bandwidth) so as to profit from advertising. If anyone else reading has any more info, please let us know! That the guitars also appeared branded Martin and Sigma suggests different marketing strategies at different timess, perhaps? Perhaps they badged their own electric solidbodies with the Goya brandname because the Martin name was so firmly established in everyone's mind as being an acoustic brand. That it was a brandname bought out by Martin. I think you may have (semi)-answered your own question, Tim. For example, Sweden's Hagstrom guitars were re-badged 'Goya' for the US market.

TimMy own understanding of the Goya brand, was that it was just that - a brandname used to sell guitars in the United States.

It's a great sounding and playing guitar, never seen another one though. It's my understanding that Goya was bought by Martin at some point in the late 70s, so I'm guessing the E-18 was just a rebranding of this Goya model? I don't know. I've seen these online with headstocks labeled EF Martin, Sigma Martin, but never Goya. It's a Goya that looks very similar to a Martin E-18, which from what I can tell is their only foray into solid body electrics. I picked this up a couple years ago, and don't know much about it. We've had another email, as follows: Hey - was wondering if you or your audience could give me any info on this guitar.

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