Kiesel felt he could do a better job by eliminating the middleman and selling directly to the customer, so an idea that would last until this day was born. Originally, Kiesel's products were sold through a distributor, but Mr. Kiesel's home state of Nebraska, and then moved back to southern California in 1949, by which time he had added amplifiers and steel guitars to his lineup of gear. The company was initially located in Los Angeles, briefly relocated back to Mr. Lowell founded the company in 1946, and began winding guitar pickups on an old sewing machine. Near the end of the war, in 1944, he married Agnes Dorothea Jorgenson, who would be with him until her passing in 2007. Kiesel was one of many men building aircraft for the war effort notably, the legendary P-51 Mustang, which is often credited as turning the tide of the war for the Allies. Kiesel relocated to Los Angeles, where he took a job with North American Aviation. However, like other innovators in the burgeoning industry of that era, he found that he had an equal passion for building instruments and equipment as he did playing them and that passion would become his life's work.įollowing his time in the midwest, Mr. During his time in Kansas in the 1930s, he performed live on local radio stations with his Hawaiian steel guitar. As a young man, he spent time in Wichita, Kansas, where he developed an interest in musical instruments specifically, Hawaiian steel guitars, resonators and the newly-emerging electronic aspects of these instruments. Lowell Kiesel, founder of Carvin Corporation, was born on a farm in Eustis, Nebraska on February 22, 1915.
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