Oscar Schmidt Strings
Oscar Schmidt has been crafting quality instruments for over a century. Founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911, the company quickly grew, setting up factories across Europe and in Jersey City, New Jersey. By the early 1900s, Oscar Schmidt was producing a wide range of stringed instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, zithers, and the iconic Autoharps®.
In the early 1920s, Oscar Schmidt instruments became popular in rural America, where access to music stores was limited. Salespeople distributed their instruments to small town furniture and dry goods stores, making them accessible to country guitar pickers and blues musicians in the South and Appalachia. These musicians favored Oscar Schmidt instruments for their superior tone, volume, and affordability.
Today, Oscar Schmidt continues this legacy by combining premium wood and quality hardware at modest prices. Each instrument is inspected and adjusted in the USA by skilled technicians, ensuring smooth fret ends, precision low action, and resonant sound quality. Oscar Schmidt offers unmatched playability, tone response, and value in every instrument.