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Dean B. Zelinsky (born February 20, 1957), also known as Dean Z, Dean Barrett Zelinsky or DBZ, is an American guitar luthier who founded Dean Guitars in 1977 and DBZ Guitars in 2008 and today owns Dean Zelinsky Private Label started in 2012.
In 2019, Gibson and Murphy founded The Murphy Lab, a division within the Custom Shop in which Murphy and a team of luthiers handle the brand's relic'ing process. Upon the release of the Murphy Lab's first collection of guitars, Guitar World dubbed the offerings the "pinnacle" of guitar ageing and the closest a new guitar can get to a vintage ...
Alvarez Yairi have been the guitar of choice for many professional touring musicians including Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ani DiFranco, and Joe Bonamassa. [1] Alvarez Yairi take the name of master luthier Kazuo Yairi (1932-2014) who partnered with St. Louis Music in the late 1960s to bring Alvarez Guitars to the market. [ 1 ]
4 Experimental luthiers. Toggle the table of contents. List of luthiers. 1 language. Català ...
He continued to design and build guitars for many professional players including Lindsey Buckingham, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, and Andy Summers. He was also a regular columnist for Acoustic Guitar magazine and was a columnist for Bass Player, Frets and Guitar Player magazines. He partnered with Seymour W. Duncan to form D-TAR.
The word luthier is originally French and comes from luth, the French word for "lute".The term was originally used for makers of lutes, but it came to be used in French for makers of most bowed and plucked stringed instruments such as members of the violin family (including violas, cellos, and double basses) and guitars.
Michael Gurian (born 1943) is an American-born guitarist and luthier of Armenian descent. [1] He had some initial furniture making experience when he became a guitar teacher at the Guitar Workshop, Roslyn, New York in 1961. [2] He studied classical guitar making with, among others, luthiers Gene Clark, David Rubio, and Manuel Velazquez. [3]
In 1970, he came upon the book Classical Guitar Construction by Irving Sloane, one of the clearest guides to guitar-making, which was published in 1966. [6] Before Sloane, wrote Barbara Stewart in The New York Times, "Anyone interested in guitar construction had to find a luthier [an expert craftsman of stringed instruments] — usually in Spain, Germany or Belgium — and try to become his ...