You might not think that harp guitar and piano would make a good duo, but that would just mean that you have not heard Brad Hoyt’s new CD Together Alone. The CD is a collection of 14 of Mr. Hoyt’s songs with Brad on piano and different guests on harp guitar. The sounds from this [...]
Well the 2010 Montreal Guitar Show is now history but from all accounts it was a fantastic place to see and play some magnificent instruments. I could not get to Montreal this year, but fortunately for us our friends at Guitar Player showed up with video equipment. You can get some feeling of the show [...]
With the busiest travel weekend in North America just past, and vacations looming for many people the thought of travel guitars comes to mind again. A few years back, when I was doing a lot of international travelling, I tried out virtually every travel guitar I could find. Many of them were disappointing for one [...]
They say that “Great minds think alike” and we just might be witnesses to the meeting of our time’s great guitar minds.
I have written a number of times about Dagmar Custom Guitars of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.These guitars are the brainchildren of luthier Pete Swanson whose revolutionary curve-sided guitars have sparked a lot of interest in the [...]
While it is a thrill to discover a new luthier it is even more exciting to discover a fine guitar maker returning to his art. This is doubly so with the incredibly talented David Wren of Toronto. As some of you know, I have been buying my acoustic guitars from David at the Twelfth Fret [...]
Frank Vignola made a big impact in Toronto earlier this month, and while the concert is now a memory a lot of us are still talking about his sound, and specifically his guitars.
Frank’s guitar is his signature atchtop model “FV” made by Ryan Thorell, which Frank endorses. You can see pictures of this beautiful instruments [...]
Earlier this week I took some time to head out on the road with Pete Swanson of Dagmar Custom Guitars. Pete was off to Folkway Music in Guelph, Ontario (http://www.folkwaymusic.com/) to show his guitars to Mark Stutman. Mark is recognized as an expert on guitars and as expected he had some great advice for Pete.
I [...]
I have just returned from a trip to Northern California. What an amazing feeling it is to stand in the redwood groves there, among trees that are over 3,000 years old! I find that a staggering age to imagine. These trees were growing before Homer wrote the Odyssey and Iliad. They were already 1,000 years [...]
You certainly cannot call Pete Swanson lazy. Having just finished Eve, he is now creating Vicky! Of course, we are talking about Dagmar Custom Guitars.
The coolest part about Vicky for us is that we can watch her being built. Pete has put up a blog to track the process of creating this unique guitar. Take [...]
My Guitarist’s Wish List contains inexpensive gifts that are sure to be cherished. However, we guitarists are not always price conscious, especially when it comes to new instruments. So for those of you looking for something more exotic, may I present the newest member of the Dagmar line: Eve.
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