Carmel Guitar Society Guitar Retreat and Workshop

I’ll be attending this event in Pacific Grove, California this week. I’m excited to play guitar and to attend some workshops, as well as to talk.

Here is a brief outline of what I plan to talk about

Topics for Testing guitars as a player and a builder (or how guitars test me – my elevation to ecstasy and descent into madness) 

  • Bio of guitar and me
  • Testing? As a player, as a builder
    • What must a guitar do?
    • How to approach a guitar
    • What to assess subjectively
    • What to measure.
    • How to prepare
    • What to play ?
    • Intonation
    • Action
    • Strings
    • Room
    • Comparisons

Here is a link to the full outline

About steve

Luthier in the northwest of the Northwest. Classical guitars, custom instruments, repairs and restorations.
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One Response to Carmel Guitar Society Guitar Retreat and Workshop

  1. Mark Achuff says:

    Hi Steve – This is Mark Achuff. It was very nice to get to know you, hear your talk, and play your instrument at the recent Carmel Guitar Society retreat at Asilomar. I was contacted recently by a member from our American Guitar Society (www.agsvc.org) who wants to build a website to showcase and sell his sheetmusic compositions. So I thought that an old acquaintance of mine – Jason Wehr – had a very interesting technique of showcasing music scores while he played the music. So I checked his site and low and behold, your name popped up as one who helped him get started in Blaine, WA. How about that for 6 degrees of separation – us CG folks all know each other! Cheers, Mark

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