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james goodall
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James Goodall approaches guitar making in the way he approaches most things in his life -- with perfectionism, intensity, resourcefulness, persistence, and vision. At one time, he set out creating and building modern symphony flutes. He wasn't content to build fine instruments though. He had to raise the state of the art in the process, working out his ideas to improve the various mechanisms involved. He has also built and plays Baroque oboes, recorders, English horns, dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, mandolas, as well as other instruments of his own invention.
"When I have a desire to do something," he says, "I'll go down to the library and read everything I can about it, and then I'll teach myself how to do it. I think sometimes my drive for perfectionism is a curse, though, because I tend to notice too much detail, and yet, I have to be that way to produce the product I make. It's just so exacting." Fortunately for us guitar pickers, James Goodall has settled on applying his gifts to guitar making.
In addition to his mechanical, woodworking, design, and business talents, James is also an accomplished artist. In fact, in 1972, he traded one of his
seascape paintings for the wood he needed to build his first guitar-a curly maple Jumbo replete with fancy Mexican mother of pearl inlay. His local resource for his first instrument was a small shop in Lemon Grove, CA called American Dream Guitar, an enterprise that would subsequently be acquired by a pair of its employees, Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug, who renamed it Taylor Guitars ...
"When I have a desire to do something," he says, "I'll go down to the library and read everything I can about it, and then I'll teach myself how to do it. I think sometimes my drive for perfectionism is a curse, though, because I tend to notice too much detail, and yet, I have to be that way to produce the product I make. It's just so exacting." Fortunately for us guitar pickers, James Goodall has settled on applying his gifts to guitar making.
In addition to his mechanical, woodworking, design, and business talents, James is also an accomplished artist. In fact, in 1972, he traded one of his
seascape paintings for the wood he needed to build his first guitar-a curly maple Jumbo replete with fancy Mexican mother of pearl inlay. His local resource for his first instrument was a small shop in Lemon Grove, CA called American Dream Guitar, an enterprise that would subsequently be acquired by a pair of its employees, Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug, who renamed it Taylor Guitars ...
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