⭕ Kay Musical Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer of the United States,
in operation since the 1930s until the 1960s. It was established in 1931 at Chicago,
Illinois by Henry Kay Kuhrmeyer, from the assets of the former Stromberg-Voisinet,
which was founded as Groeschel Mandolin Company in 1890.
Kay offered their first electric guitar in 1936--five years after the Rickenbacker Frying pan,
and the same year as the Gibson ES-150. Nonetheless,
Kay is considered an electric guitar pioneer because Kuhrmeyer bought their past company,
Stromberg-Voisinet, and produced the first commercial electric guitar,
the Stromberg Electro, in 1928