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September 2008: Business and guitars are going well, but I regret that I'm a few months behind on guitars at this time. I have one Model E in stock, and I do not forsee any new guitars for the site until mid or late 2009. Look for pictures of the next harp guitar around the time of HGG6 in October.
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Harp Guitar
Italian spruce top Sycamore back and sides Cutaway Seven sub basses Ebony binding with black/white/black purfling Cool Mackintosh inspired design
This is the fourth Kathy Wingert Harp Guitar. I was greatly inspired by my experience building my first two instruments and wanted to try my hand at playing one. Stephen Bennett offered the best advice saying to just play and don't think too much about the subs. I'm still too unfamiliar to have much success just ignoring all those beautiful extra strings, but I'm having a lot of fun arranging very simple melodies with basses, simple exercises to get acquainted with the spacing, and finding ways to adapt what I already know to the beautiful instrument.
The amazing design (trust me, pictures don't do it justice) was a continuation of our fascination with the work of Margaret McDonald and Rennie Mackintosh. Jimmi drew up the design and created the overlays for the harp head and headstock. I did the inlay in the spruce of the harp arm itself, and Jimmi created and cut the rose for the harp arm soundhole.Price: $INQUIRE
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Harp Guitar
Italian spruce top Mahogany back and sides Cutaway Six sub basses Cocobolo binding with black/white/black purfling Side port
This is the first Kathy Wingert Harp Guitar. The project was inspired and guided by my client and friend, Frank Doucette. We collaborated (and lived to tell) on the design elements, and the lovely Glasgow school inspired "Muse" in the headstock was designed by Christa Percival. Jimmi provided the inlay expertise.
With kind generosity, Gregg Miner provided me with examples of historic instruments to examine. Frank and Gregg brought to the project more experience than I would have been able to gather on my own. The assignment I was given was to bring the "Wingert sound" to this instrument. I think I saw Frank smile. Better pictures will be added to the main site at a later date.Price: $SOLD Click On Any Image
One of the great pleasures of being an independent luthier is to have the chance to make custom guitars for discriminating customers looking for the guitar of their dreams. I love the creative part of being a guitar maker. Helping a guitarist design a guitar to fit his or her body, hands, and style of play is what custom luthiers do, and that is only a small part of what sets the hand-made guitar apart from high-end factory guitars.
Custom hand-made, high-quality guitars, whether a steel-string guitar or classical guitar, should reflect the heart of the luthier and the desires of the player. Acoustic guitars are such a versatile and beautiful way to express musical ideas, that it is no wonder they are so popular, and it is the rare musical genre or soloist or group that does not include a guitar.
With so many beautiful guitars available, it is no wonder that we are in what has been referred to as the "Golden Age of Lutherie." It seems to me that it is really the "Golden Age of Information" where a player, with the desire to find just the right fit in a guitar, is able to find a guitar across the country or across the world; and the luthiers who build them are able to find parts, tools, and materials that were almost unobtainable to our independent guitar making pioneers.
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