Monday, 08 July 2013 16:01
ADGPA 2013
Once more my friends from ADGPA (Atkins Dadi Guitar Players Association) pulled off a great convention this year. The venue was fenomenal as always, the artists and seminars were top notch, and the vibe of the whole event was special.
Monday, 08 July 2013 16:27
Stephen Bennett and "The Max"
A Columbia model ended up in the VERY capable hands of none the less than Stephen Bennett!
Stephen and his wife Nancy came over for dinner while in Italy for Stephen's EU tour, and he fell in love with a cedar topped Columbia... and took it home!
Monday, 08 July 2013 16:30
Tommy Emmanuel
This was a surprise... I knew Stephen Bennet was playing a few concerts with his Maxmonte, which he calls "The Max", but the picture his wife sent me was a bit... shocking!
Friday, 19 July 2013 21:16
New Danube on the design board
Here is the wood for a new Danube... The top is a very crispy sounding Italian spruce, and the back and sides are cocobolo.
Saturday, 20 July 2013 06:25
Wandering with friends...
Well, I must say that Sarzana this year was a lot of fun!
Saturday, 12 March 2011 00:00
A LOT OF EXCITEMENT AND A BIT OF MADNESS
Right after the harp guitar was finished and I posted the pics on the site I started getting messages and thumbs up! What a day.
In the meanwhile Francesco is playing on it 12 hours a day, taking it everywhere, skipping breakfast to play...
Monday, 09 September 2013 09:58
The other side of guitar festivals
So, what do luthiers do when (almost) no guitarist is looking? Of course they work their magic to make awesome guitars, search the world for the perfect piece of wood, study the properties of resonances and string tension and whatnot...
Monday, 18 November 2013 19:58
Nice Antiphony review on chitarra.accordo.it
Here is a very nice report of the Maxmonte Antiphony on the chitarre.accordo.it website.
The report is in italian... put if you want to have some idea of what it says check out the automated translation by google: Maxmonte Antiphony
Sunday, 16 March 2014 00:00
A night in Venice
And so it was that I had a night out in Venice with my wife... to talk about guitars!
I was invited to give a presentation on what goes on in the weird connection between a luthier's head and his hands. Two old friends of mine planned a series of presentations on the value of artisanal work and the creative process behind it: boat building, hair dressing, wine making, beer brewing... and guitar making.
So, after leaving the kids with the baby sitter, we drove to Mestre to catch a train to Venice, and walked our way to Campo San Polo (thank you GPS!!!).
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