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A chance encounter between Dennis Berardi and the manager of Eddie Van Halen on an airplane flight set the foundation for Kramer's meteoric rise in the 1980s. Eddie was interested in a tremolo that stayed in tune, which the Rockinger system offered.
By 1975 he had partnered with a friend from New York, Dennis Berardi, and the two founded BK International, which engaged luthier Phil Petillo to make prototypes for them.
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I brought my idea to Dennis Berardi, who I had known through Bernie Gracin. Dennis also saw a winner in the aluminum neck guitar with my design changes. Dennis and I had become very good friends and I had often spent time socializing with him and his wife.
The EVH partnership with Kramer stemmed from a chance meeting between Dennis Berardi and Eddie Van Halen’s managers when they found themselves on the same flight – but it was an association that would define the brand.
Apr 6, 2021 · Kramer was founded in the late ’70s by Dennis Berardi and Gary Kramer, a friend and associate of Travis Bean. The company started out building aluminum-neck guitars that featured a distinctive pitchfork-style headstock and differed from Bean’s creations by having strips of mahogany, maple, or koa embedded along the entire length of neck to ...
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Aug 2, 2018 · Dennis Berardi (President of Kramer Guitars) on meeting Eddie Van Halen. I found this great clip going through my personal VHS tapes of Dennis talking about ...
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