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Carson Crickmore Guitars:
In this life of high-technology and mass production, Phil Carson Crickmore produces the finest quality handcrafted guitars utilising the skills he has gained over the last 20 years.
80% of Carson Crickmore Guitars are produced in blackwood: This is Australia's premier instrument building wood, growing straight grained and with figure, ie fiddleback. Blackwood is stable when prepared properly, it bends very well and consistently produces a strong, fundamental tone. It is very appealing visually and there is a good supply available within Australia.
Carson Crickmore Guitars treads the middle path between technology and tradition, never allowing the innovation of the former to compromise the individuality of the latter.
Our guitars are handcrafted from tailblock to headstock. Their tonal range is achieved through an uncompromising process of timber selection and painstaking attention to detail.
For over 20 years, Carson Crickmore has created instruments for people who appreciate the difference between a guitar that is handcrafted rather than produced.
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For over fiteen years now, Sylvain Courcelles has been practicing the art of guitar building, and he has also been playing guitar for almost 30 years.
He received formal classical guitar training at the University of Montreal, where he earned a Baccalaureate of Music degree. In his workshop in the north of Montreal, Sylvain individually conceives each instrument individually, but only after much discussion with the player who will ultimately be making music on the instrument.
His customers are involved in all styles of music: Jazz, rock, classical. Clients are from Europe as well as from North America.
Amongst his clientele he includes artists such as, Térez Montcalm, Michael Gauthier, Greg Clayton, David Gauthier, Guy Boisvert , Éric Auclair, Michel Morissette, Zachary Richard, Steve Dumas, Les trois Accords, Simple Plan, Jocelyn Tellier, Martin Roy, Charles Dubé, Michel Pépin, Alain Auger, Donald Meunier, Sylvain Quesnel, Hugo Perreault, Andrew Cowan, Guy Kaye, Carl Bastien, Luc Sicard, Yves Marchand, Stéphane Carreau, Pat Loiselle, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Martin Léon, Colin Perry, Charles Papasoff, Catherine Durand, Joseph Marchand.
To know more about this luthier, you are invited to enter his universe.
Enjoy your visit.
Sylvain Courcelles oeuvre dans le domaine de la lutherie depuis plus de quinze ans, et depuis près de trente ans comme instrumentiste.
Il a acquis une formation en guitare classique à l'Université de Montréal où il a obtenu un baccalauréat. Aujourd'hui, dans son atelier au nord de Montréal, il conçoit chacun de ses instruments dans les règles de l'art, après une longue discussion avec les musiciens qui les feront vibrer !
Sa clientèle vient de tous les styles Jazz, Rock, Classique... et autant d' Amérique du Nord que d'Europe.
Il compte parmis sa clientèle des artistes tel que, Térez Montcalm, Michael Gauthier, Greg Clayton, David Gauthier, Guy Boisvert , Éric Auclair, Michel Morissette, Zachary Richard, Steve Dumas, Les trois Accords, Simple Plan, Jocelyn Tellier, Martin Roy, Charles Dubé, Michel Pépin, Alain Auger, Donald Meunier, Sylvain Quesnel, Hugo Perreault, Andrew Cowan, Guy Kaye, Carl Bastien, Luc Sicard, Yves Marchand, Stéphane Carreau, Pat Loiselle, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Martin Léon, Colin Perry, Charles Papasoff, Catherine Durand, Joseph Marchand.
Pour en savoir plus sur le travail de ce luthier passionné de guitare, je vous invite à entrer dans son univers...
Bonne visite !
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Official Website of Gretsch Guitars, Basses and Amps:
"That Great Gretsch Sound!"
For more than 100 years Gretsch has developed what came to be known as "That Great Gretsch Sound," but it all began with a young German immigrant in Brooklyn.
At 27, Friedrich Gretsch founded a small musical instrument shop 1883 to make banjos, drums and tambourines. Only 12 years later Friedrich died, leaving the fledgling company in the hands of his teenage son Fred.
While it may be an unlikely start for a century-long (and growing) musical legacy, young Fred wasn't the typical teen. By 1916 he had built the company into one of America's leading importers and manufacturers of musical instruments, and the operations moved into a 10-story building at 60 Broadway in Brooklyn.
Fred knew listening to what the public wanted was the key to growth, and the public wanted guitars. So, Gretsch began making guitars.
Initially, Gretsch offered acoustic archtops aimed at jazz musicians, and a handful of flat-tops for country-western performers.
Meanwhile, 1935 marked an important year for Gretsch — Duke Kramer joined the team. Kramer went on to become a mainstay of the Gretsch company, and remains a valued counsel to this day.
"That distinctive sound was our product, the sound that energized the market for decades," Kramer says.
Fred Gretsch, Sr. retired from the company in 1942, leaving the day-to-day operations to his sons Fred, Jr. and William ...
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