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Archive for "Guitars"

  • Guitars

    Posted on April 9th, 2008

    Written by Steve

    Stonebridge Guitar Giveaway Winner

    You may recall that during the Symphony Sessions Canadian Tour, Stonebridge Guitars joined us in offering a free guitar (the same one Steve plays) to some lucky individual that entered their name in the draw box at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank table. Well, we plunged into that box full of entries and pulled out a [...]

  • Guitars, Symphony Sessions

    Posted on October 23rd, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Stonebridge Guitar Giveaway

    Congratulations to Matthew Nikkel of Winnipeg! Winner of the Stonebridge Guitar Giveaway.

  • Guitars

    Posted on May 26th, 2007

    Written by Steve

    House Grand Auditorium

    House Grand Auditorium in progress www.houseguitars.com Josh House is a young luthier from Southern Ontario. He came to a concert of mine a few years back to show me a guitar he made. If it wasn’t his first one, it was one of his first instruments. It was a good guitar, not great, but you [...]

  • Guitars

    Posted on May 2nd, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Iida Mandolin

    Iiada Mandolin Honestly, I can’t tell you much about this instrument. I was at a music festival about 20 years ago and while the bands were changing on stage, the sound man put on an album of a female bluegrass singer singing traditional bluegrass gospel songs. The singing and playing was some of the finest [...]

  • Guitars

    Posted on April 10th, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Accessories and Resources

    L R Baggs Dual Source Pick-ups. Pick-ups are a necessary evil. I don’t like the sound of any of them really – there’s a certain mid-range quack that I just hate hearing, and they all have it to some degree. However, to my ears, the LR Baggs Dual Source Pick-up (~ $250 + installation) is [...]

  • Guitars

    Posted on April 10th, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Johnson JM 996 Resonator Guitar

    Johnson Resonator I picked up this instrument a couple of years ago here in Winnipeg. Modeled after the original, pre-World War II guitars, these resonators are probably the foremost affordable, decent, metal body guitars on the market. For me this is a novelty instrument. I don’t play it much but when in the studio, the [...]

  • Guitars

    Posted on April 10th, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Perry Guitars

    Perry 00 Custom german spruce top koa sides and back slotted headstock I met Darryl Perry about 25 years ago in my old neighborhood of Wolseley (Winnipeg). Darryl was a banjo maker and had a small storefront down the street from my house. His little shop served as a retail outlet for his banjos but [...]

  • Guitars

    Posted on April 10th, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Walden Dreadnaught D550 E

    Walden Dreadnaught D550 – Price: $300 I picked up this guitar in Thunder Bay last fall but I think you can get them almost anywhere. I first encountered the Walden guitar at a store somewhere in the Okanagan valley a few years ago. Basically, they are an extremely good intro to mid-level guitar. I picked [...]

  • Guitars

    Posted on March 27th, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Stonebridge Guitars

    Stonebridge OM-34-SR spruce top rosewood sides and back mahogany neck This one is a bit of a surprise guitar. I was in a music store in Fredericton NB last December (06) looking to purchase a guitar cable, when I noticed a Stonebridge guitar hanging on the wall. I hadn’t heard of Stonebridge guitars and so [...]

  • Guitars

    Posted on March 22nd, 2007

    Written by Steve

    Ryan Guitar

    Ryan Guitars I first met Kevin Ryan in Sante Fe, New Mexico about ten years ago. We had a mutual friend in Lou Bruno, owner of a design and marketing firm who has, on several occasions, brought me to Sante Fe for concerts. (Lou designed the cover for my Romantics & Mystics album.)

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