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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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Luthier, university lecturer, writer and currently researcher in Microsystems, Trevor Semple is probably best known as a maker of acoustic, flamenco and concert guitars of highly advanced construction.
Since 1985, he has experimented with materials such as carbon-fibre, aluminium and resin-cured honeycombs. With instruments in over eighteen different countries, and customers such as Vladimir Mikulka
and Carlos Bonell, he enjoys a world-wide reputation as one of the finest and most original contemporary luthiers.
This website is rather like life.
It is a journey through a career. It looks back over the past, the history, the experiences, and it also looks forward to the future - that exciting new place that exists only in the imagination. It is partly a reference work for those who have enquiring minds. Finally, it is an acknowledgement of my many customers around the world and a huge "thank you" to them all for their generous enthusiasm for my work over the last twenty-five years. Without them, none of this would have been possible.
I hope you enjoy the journey too.
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The Classical Guitar: Where tradition meets technology in Classical Guitars, by Luthier Jeremy Locke.
I began building classical and flamenco guitars around 1980. My first guitar was a steel string guitar and it is still in use today. At that time I had no real fine wood working experience and very few tools. Today most tasks are still done by hand by me, very few machines are used. I also prefer to make only one guitar at a time. In every new guitar I make small changes as I seek to continually improve the sound and playability of each instrument. My workshop is in Queensland, Australia. I have a family with one son Daniel, 10 years old, partner Cheryl (age not readily available), and my two faithfull German Shepherds buddies have recently passed away. Life in the shop is not what it used to be without their company. Classical guitars are an important part of my life. I have studied the piano, music, guitar making and guitar playing extensively. My most significant guitar teacher was Jason Waldron in Adelaide. Jason is one of Australia's finest guitarists and teachers. Being a good player allows me to properly evaluate my instruments, and more importantly it allows me to enjoy them as they are made.
I travel extensively with my instruments and have exhibited often at guitar Festivals like the Healdsburg guitar festival, the GFA festival in the USA and Nurtingen in Germany. In 1999 one of my guitars was chosen to be part of the First prize at the prestigious GFA festival in Charleston, USA ...
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The guitar Works Ltd.:
Since 1979, The Guitar Works, Ltd. has been helping musicians of all skill levels find that perfect guitar... their "musical soulmate", if you will. For those musicians who have already found the perfect guitar, we also repair and maintain guitars, amps, and PA equipment. We have one of the premier repair shops in the MidWest. Our techs have almost 80 years of combined experience in guitar/electronic repairs. We have repaired the gear of everyone from students and weekend warriors to pro musicians. We have done business with/repaired the gear of Styx, Tesla, The Who, The Ramones, Jars of Clay, The Indigo Girls, Urge Overkill, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Jethro Burns, David Grisman, David Bromberg, John Hartford, John Fogerty, Los Lobos, Steve Albini, Smashing Pumpkins, Muriel Anderson, Chet Atkins, Eddy Clearwater, Lonnie Brooks, Son Seals, Honey Boy Edwards, and Larry Coryell, as well as what seems to be just about every student, enthusiast and jobbing musician within a 50-mile radius of our store. In our store, we try to offer the kind of quality merchandise that the big box stores have, but with a quality of service that is unmatched by their cold, faceless corporate culture ...
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