University of Texas Permian Basin music education student Mariah Gomez is building her very own classical guitar. She began the process in May and is eager to complete it by early November. “I tend to ...
Is the tone really in the wood, and do old guitars really sound better because the wood has dried out? The answers are yes and no. Contrary to popular belief, the seasoned wood used for guitar ...
ALSEA, Ore. — A love for flamenco guitar brought John Shelton and Susan Farretta together during college in the mid-1960s. It was only the beginning for Shelton-Farretta Guitars. “John was always ...
In the eighth grade, Jeffrey Boerner made his first guitar out of construction lumber he scrounged from a nearby housing development in Chicago. At age 59, he now oversees a substantially more ...
Phil Blauw of the Hope College staff produced and directed "Modern Luthier," a feature on the art of acoustic guitar building that will be shown on PBS locally on WGVU-TV35/WGVK-TV52 on Sunday, Oct. 8 ...
As the CEO and president of Taylor Guitars, Andy Powers has seen his fair share of changes within the guitar manufacturing industry. As a guitar designer and life-long guitar aficionado, well, you ...
WELCOME BACK. NEW THIS MORNING. A ONE OF A KIND CALIFORNIA GUITAR BUILDING SCHOOL IS SHOWCASING ITS HARD WORK IN A FREE FESTIVAL. AND WE’RE JOINED THIS MORNING BY AL CALDERON AND MARCELO RIZZI WITH ...
Lowden Guitars has unveiled the limited-edition 45th anniversary O-25, a classically appointed, high-end acoustic guitar with a design referencing the guitar that helped make the Lowden name, the L-25 ...
Gary Leddington utilized his craft, and his surrounding community, to build a one-of-a-kind acoustic that features ...
Welcome to the Ritter Family Classical Guitar Program at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! The Ritter Family Classical Guitar Program aims to be an agorà, a public space for ...