not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources ellis guitars news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message ellis guitars type private industry musical instruments headquarters perth western australia area served global products custom guitars and equipment website ellisguitars.com ellis guitars is a company based in perth western australia producing handmade acoustic guitars and acoustic stompboxes . in recent years the company has produced some novel sometimes unique guitars based upon a resonator design . 7 string resonator guitar edit the ellis 8 string resonator guitar the 7 string resonator guitar is a single cone resonator guitar with an added harp string which can be on a bass or baritone scale length . this guitar was first demonstrated in melbourne australia 2005 . it is currently owned and played by jeff martin formerly of the tea party . jeff martin played this guitar on his album exile and the kingdom 2006 on the songs black snake blues lament and good times . jeff martin also played the 7 string as recorded on live at the enmore theatre dvd in sydney australia on 7 september 2006 during his australian tour . along with these unusual guitars ellis guitars also build traditional acoustic instruments such as the ooo om dreadnought and jumbo acoustic guitars . also built are weissenborn style guitars . ellis stomp box edit the ellis stomp box the ellis stomp box sounds like a kick drum and can be used as a trigger . the stompboxes built by ellis guitars are small in size . traditionally stomp boxes have been large wooden boxes with a microphone underneath which produce a tap boom sound usually to accompany a solo guitarist . the ellis model is about the size of a cd case and plugs directly into an amplifier or p.a. references edit australian guitar magazine issue 55 page 44 45 biography on ellis guitars 2006 australian guitar magazine issue 50 page 16 17 review of ellis stompbox 2006 groove magazine issue 10 biography on ellis guitars 2006 this article about a musical instrument company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ellis guitars & oldid 582142902 categories manufacturing companies of australiaguitar manufacturing companiescompanies based in perth western australiamusical instrument company stubshidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian englisharticles with topics of unclear notability from october 2009all articles with topics of unclear notabilitypages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 18 november 2013 at 02 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view