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The Kyser Timeline
1980
Milton Kyser, a young machinist with a love of connecting people through music establishes an East Texas guitar accessory company known as Kyser Musical Products.
1985
To help musicians change keys effortlessly with one hand, the ambitious founder invents a trigger mechanism for guitar capos that eventually became Kyser's signature Quick-Change functionality----and remains remarkably unchanged to this day.
1996
The company expands its assortment of quality accessories to include care and cleaning products, beginning with the recognizable Dr. Stringfellow line of guitar polishes. The line has since evolved to include humidifiers, strings and many more performance essentials.
1999
The Quick-Change Capo line welcomes its first non-acoustic capo, which boasted a special radius and lower tension developed especially for streamlined electric necks.
2000
Kyser introduces its first "sublimated" capo, broadening the company's creative capo possibilities beyond paint colors and into custom-dyed patterns and designs. The first, the KG6F freedom capo, was a nod to Milton's time as a Korean War soldier and a company-wide commitment to supporting vets with music.
2006
Once hand pressed into the aluminum of the capo body, Kyser evolved its signature logo imprint by switching the process to a special ink stamp.
2012
Nearing the end of his life, Milton passes the Kyser torch to his great-niece Meredith Attebery, who currently assumes the role of company owner and president.
2020
The company celebrates 40 years in the business by debuting its first signature capos, appropriately named the "Milton" and the "Meredith".