Dream Guitars

**red7flag** · Jul-04-2006, 12:28pm

My cousin turned me onto a wonderful site for guitars:
http://www.dreamguitars.com/
What makes it so special is that you can hear each of the guitars played by the same person, Al Petteway. He tries to play a tune that would be appropriate for each guitar. I wish all shops did this for the long distance buyer. I would love to hear all the mandos and their other instruments at Elderly, Janet Davis and First Quality, actually any place on line. I think it would make buying over the internet a bit more comfortable. The technology is here.
Tony

**cgwilsonjr** · Jul-04-2006, 1:41pm

Great site! You would think that would be the standard with folks selling high-end instruments because a "sound-clip is worth a thousand words" so to speak.

**Ken Sager** · Jul-04-2006, 4:01pm

FANTASTIC site! In spite of the strum-meister hackmarks on the top, the Greven OM12 is k-i-l-l-i-n-g me.

Online sellers who truly love selling, who truly love the instruments, truly love their customers, they'd do this. They'd do what Dream Guitars is doing.

True, a sound-clip is valuable, but until the guitar/mandolin/whatever is in your hands you don't know what it can do. Regardless, I'm all for it.

Wow.

Thanks for sharing Tony!
Best,
Ken

**Onesound** · Jul-04-2006, 4:29pm

Check out the modestly priced Williams Whitebait Kiwi Guitar at $25K. (its Sold) #What a gorgeous tone. #NOTE: There is also a Williams Scroll F Mandolin with sound files thats wonderful (can only be seen when you open the Kiwi guitar detail).

OMG - take a listen to the Custom McCollum Baritone... #It's INCREADIBLE! #A guitar to die for at 10K!

**Zoe** · Jul-04-2006, 5:09pm

This is where I bought my Phoenix Neoclassical mandolin-

It is one of the last mandolins that they will ever stock-
and it is a beauty!

to check out my beautiful mando:

http://www.dreamguitars.com/instock_phoenix.htm

take care
zoe

**Avi Ziv** · Jul-04-2006, 6:27pm

A year ago (or maybe more), I heard that Dream Guitars was opening a store only minutes away from my offic, in Red Bank,NJ. I called their number and they indeed confirmed it. The odd thing was that by the time I managed to get to the store, it was gone. I don't know what happened, but the business next door told me that they indeed were there for a short while and then left. What a disappointment! At the time they were carrying Sobels once in a while. Anyway, glad to see that they materialized elsewhere. I'm sure that rent in NC is much lower than in NJ.

Avi

**Mandobar** · Jul-04-2006, 7:28pm

avi, it was not a store persay. paul heumiller opened a shop within his house. he had a partner, martin simpson. martin went through a divorce and returned to england and withdrew his interest in the business. paul moved south to ashville, north carolina with his family right after that. ashville has a lot more music and art activity than new jersey.

i've done business with paul several times. nice guy.

**Avi Ziv** · Jul-04-2006, 8:45pm

Mandobar - thanks for the added details. I remember having a nice phone conversation (with Paul?) at that time, and the prospect of a top-shelf store setting up right next to me was almost to good to be true. Ashville is a nice place and I hope Paul does well over there. These days, with the Internet and fast shipping, you can be almost anywhere.

Avi