Gerrit van Bergeijk Handmade Guitars:
I'm a luthier from Holland specialising in Selmer style, steel string and classical guitars.
As a guitarmaker I know as no other that it is necessary to use excellent materials and good tools to create a high quality result.
This statement surely counts for musicians. As a guitarmaker I construct the tools for the player. A good instrument makes you as guitar player more expressive, stimulates your creativity and gives you much more fun. In my opinion the most important part of making music ...
Meisterwerkstatt für klassischen Gitarrenbau JoachimSchneider -Informationen über unsere Instrumente und unsere Werkstatt - Information about our instruments and our workshop. Bereits in der fünften Generation werden in unserer Werkstatt handwerklich gefertigte Meisterinstrumente hergestellt. Diese langjährige Tradition, sowie der Erfahrungsaustausch mit vielen Solisten aus aller Welt, spiegeln sich in unseren Instrumenten wider. Bestätigt wurde dies nicht zuletzt durch die Anerkennung zum Kunstschaffenden sowie durch internationale Preise im Gitarrenbau ...
It is today the fifth generation of master guitar makers who manufacture hand-made master instruments in our workshop.
Consequently, our instruments reflect these many years of tradition and the exchange of experience with numerous soloists from all over the world.
This has been acknowledged not least by our recognition as artists as well as by international guitar makers awards ...
Stuart Mewburn aims to build classical and flamenco guitars that sing. This site shows how he goes about it, the techniques and materials he uses, the prices he charges. It traces his thinking on sound production and the sources he has borrowed from including, among others, Santos Hernandez, Miguel Rodriguez and Jeronimo Fernandez Pena. It shows his development of the radiating strut theory in pictures. There is music which demonstrates what his guitars sound like. There are quotes from players and owners of Mewburn guitars.
Kinscherff Guitars: My journey into the life of a guitarmaker was the result of a natural progression. I started playing guitar in 1967. Being the curious person I am it wasn't long before I was experimenting with pawnshop wrecks. I actually made my first guitars in 1978, an electric and a dreadnought. I found gainful employment at the then-fledgling Taylor Guitars and worked there for a couple of years.
In the early eighties I moved back to my native Texas, repairing and building instruments in Dallas. Wanderlust struck in 1986 and I decided to go on a walkabout. After about a year and a half of adventures that included travel in Europe , N. Africa, India and Nepal, I returned to the US and again found work at Taylor.
By 1990 I was ready to move back to Texas, this time the capital, Austin. It was there that I made the first acoustic guitars under the Kinscherff name, and designed the models I now offer ...