Month: March 2017

Here's an attempt to play music not usually, or at all, associated with the archtop guitar. The composer is Reginald Smith Brindle (1917-2003), who not only wrote some beautiful, if challenging music, but also wrote some of the finest books on 20th-century classical composition. Here Brindle borrows a tone row of the serialist composer, Anton… Continue reading John Cage? Anton Webern? Acoustic Archtop Guitar? →

In retrospect, it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out the differences between archtop guitars. They all looked cool, and in the right hands sounded cool too. I bought a number of guitars over the years, eventually selling them for others, but slowly I discovered what made some guitars the right guitars for… Continue reading Choosing The Right Acoustic Archtop Guitar →

Hi folks, and Welcome to my archtop guitar blog and website. I've populated it initially...