Re: Becoming a Luthier-How?
When i went to Wintergrass, I remember meeting a number of guitar, banjo, mando etc makers from Bend, the Sisters, Portland, and places near you. Andrew Mowry, Preston Thompson, Brooks Masten, um, I can't remember the others. For some reason, there's a bunch in Oregon, not that many in WA state. But i'm sure if you ask them they'd tell you about all the help they got when they were starting.
The guy that used to set soundposts on my violin and cello had a performance degree in Medievel music or whatever pre Baroque is called from a top school (Indiana) and he got hired as an apprentice fiddle/cello/bass fixer and after awhile he got really good at the basics and was starting to reset necks and more involved work
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Yamaha piano, clarinet, violin; generic cello;
a pedal steel (highly recommended); banjo, dobro don't get played much cause i'm considerate ;}
Shopping/monitoring prices: vibraphone/marimbas, rhodes, synths, Yamaha brass and double reeds
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