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The guitars he built for Garcia included Eagle , [2] Wolf, [3] Tiger, [4] Wolf Jr. (headless) and Rosebud. [5] Doug also built more than 50 other guitars and basses including a bass for Pete Sears and a bass for Phil Lesh. Two other guitars are documented as being built by Irwin: Rosewood and a Les Paul type guitar. These two guitars appear in ...
Irwin left to form his own company shortly thereafter, designing four more customs for Garcia, including [7] Wolf, [8] Tiger, [9] Wolf Jr. (headless) and Rosebud. [ 10 ] In 1976, Alembic built what is believed to be the first modern five string bass (tuned BEADG) for bassist Jimmy Johnson .
Tiger is a custom-built guitar owned by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. Garcia commissioned luthier Doug Irwin to design and build the guitar in 1973 following delivery of Wolf, his first major Irwin-built guitar. Upon commissioning the instrument, Garcia asked Irwin to "make it the way he thought was best, and don't hold back."
1996 – Jennifer Irwin, Mollie Jacques, Bob Martin, Jack Mosshammer 1997 – James Carroll , Marc Hickox, Melody Johnson, Arnold Pinnock , Angela V. Shelton 1998 – Mark Andrada, Gavin Crawford , Tracy Dawson , Andrew Dollar, Marypat Farrell , Jerry Minor , Doug Morency , Lee Smart, Gina Sorell, Jennifer Whalen
Jackson limited RR 24 and his later ESP signature models are all based on this guitar. [citation needed] Wolf – Also known as "Wolfie", this is another of Jerry Garcia's custom guitars made by Doug Irwin, it sold at auction for US$700,000 in 2002. The total price was US$789,500 per the buyer's commission fee. [64]
In the boutique guitar world, it’s hard to find anyone with bad things to say about Doug Kauer. Having founded Kauer Guitars in 2007, the Sacramento-based builder is a well-known commodity.
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The Oahu Music Company was a music education program in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s to teach students to play the Hawaiian Guitar. Popular culture in America became fascinated with Hawaiian music during the first half of the twentieth century [1] and in 1916, recordings of indigenous Hawaiian instruments outsold every other genre of music in the U.S. [2] By 1920, sales of ...