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He began work, sharing a space with fellow luthiers; Tom Ellis (mandolin builder) and Mike Stevens. After a few years, Collings became more "serious" about his craft and purchased a garage. George Gruhn, a vintage-guitar collector/seller in Nashville, hired Collings to make 25 guitars in 1987. Collings soon received recognition from competing ...
Harvey is the son of Dorsey Harvey, a mandolin player who played with Red Allen and Frank Wakefield; David Harvey grew up playing mandolin, fiddle, and guitar, and is often referred to as a "mandolin virtuoso." [1] [3] At age 14, he started touring with Allen, and in the late seventies became a member of Larry Sparks's The Lonesome Ramblers.
Henderson was born May 3, 1947, in Grayson County, Virginia, [1] where he still resides today. He is a full-time instrument builder and musician, specializing in building guitars, mandolins, and plays with a unique finger-picking style.
His designs for a family of arch top instruments (mandolin, mandola, guitar, et cetera) are held in high esteem by today's luthiers, who seek to reproduce their sound. [citation needed] C. F. Martin apprenticed to Johann Georg Stauffer, a guitar maker in Vienna, Austria and Martin & Co. was born, with the X bracing being developed in the 1850s ...
Review: Singing and rambling, Chris Thile calls for 'Attention!' with his shape-shifting mandolin. Mark Swed. August 24, 2023 at 6:41 PM.
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]
Weymann Guitars is an American manufacturing company of musical instruments.Established in 1864 in Philadelphia, Weymann is one of the oldest instrument companies in the country.
Godin Guitars is a Canadian manufacturing company headquartered in Montreal [1] that specializes in string instruments.The company was founded by Robert Godin CM, [2] [3] and is currently led by Simon Godin.