Starr Labs, Inc manufactures MIDI performance controllers for guitar, piano,
percussion, and custom electronics for musical and non-musical applications.
Our expertise is in the design of high-speed data acquisition systems serving large numbers of i
nput sensors as is often required in a musical performance or medical and industrial applications.
Our proprietary processor design can access nearly an unlimited number of sensors in real-time.
Ian Watchorn - musical instrument maker and instrument
making, repair & restoration, violins, violas, guitars, pianos, Melbourne, Australia.
Ian Watchorn began his professional career as a maker & repairer of instruments in Sydney, Australia in 1976, moving to Canberra in 1979.
1982; received grants from Australia Council and NSW Premiers Department to study musical instrument conservation at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany under Friedemann Hellwig and John Henry van der Meer.
1984; accepted the post of conservator at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and was later acting senior conservator there before returning to Australia in 1987.
1987 - 1990; worked on the conservation and collection development for the musical instrument collection at the Power House Museum, Sydney, and later as curator of the same collection ...
Welcome to Maverick Music! Our selection of rare and vintage guitars is hard to match! If you cannot find the specific vintage guitar you were looking for, please contact us. We have quite an assortment of valuable resources! We are one of a very select few "Officially Endorsed" resellers of authentic Zemaitis Guitars, in the world! Phil Winfield and his partners have gone to great lengths to preserve the history and legend of Tony Zemaitis Vintage Guitars, and in doing so have gathered one of the most unique collections available!
Along with our Vintage Guitars, we are the ONLY "Authorized Dealer" of Patrick James Eggle custom, handmade guitars in the USA! Once you hold, see, and play one of these masterpieces, you will quickly learn what makes them so different than the rest
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Joel Laplane, Luthier:
Specialiste en guitares acoustiques.
Joël LAPLANE est un luthier formé dans la plus pure tradition de la lutherie espagnole. ll est chargé de cours de lutherie à l'Institut Technologique Européen des Métiers de la Musique (ITEMM - Le Mans).
Il est aussi guitariste.
Depuis 26 ans, il perfectionne son métier dans sa globalité, musicale et technique ...
Parmi ses clients : Paco DE LUCIA, Turibio SANTOS (Brésil), Francis et Jean-Felix LALANNE, Lucien BATTAGLIA, François TOMASI, Claude GALENCA, Henri DOUCET, Gilles BARDET, Bernard MICHEL, Françoise BRUNEAU, Eric BELLOCQ, Roland HALBERT, Joël ANTONA, plusieurs professeurs et concertistes en Allemagne dont Klaus BOESSER, Hanno GIULINI, Christian STRAUBE. Alvaro PIERRI (Uruguay-Canada), Mariam RENNO et Norbert BOCCALI (duo à Zurich), Martine PIERETTI (quatuor de Valence) Maya LEROUX-OBRADOVIC (Genève).
Ainsi que les musiciens guitaristes professionnels de Marseille et sa région : Denis SALVADOR, fondateur de l'Institut Européen de la Guitare et de l'Ecole de Guitare de Marseille, Michel MELCHIONE, Philippe FORCIOLI, François TOMASI, Albert ARCHAVLIS et aussi l'excellent mandoliniste corse Ange LANZALAVI ...
Antonio Picado is a traditional luthier who builds classical guitars by hand in his workshop in Barcelona, Spain.
Antonio Picado is a luthier in the classical tradition and has devoted almost 30 years to the craft of making the classic Spanish guitar with special care, simplicity and skill. He inpregnates his guitars with a personal quality which creates the magical sound of Picado Guitars. In his artisan's workshop, with love and the greatest care, he skillfully shapes specially selected woods as only the best materials combined with a perfect finish will yield the best sound. Even the marquetry on the body is part of the acoustic design and varies according to the different models ...