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Stuff For Sale...
Check out the new "Stuff For Sale"
page on the Unofficial Collings Clarence White web site. I'll list
Collings Clarence White guitars as well as other items. Contact
me for details. |
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Flatpicking... |
My friend Dan Miller publishes a wonderful magazine, Flatpicking
Guitar Magazine, dedicated to the art of the flatpicked guitar. |
The
Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum is my favorite forum on the web. |
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Clarence White... |
Clarence White |
Clarence White's
Footprints on the Records |
The Clarence White Forum |
Clarence White bio |
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Musical Artists... |
J.S. Bach - Need I say more? |
Tony Rice!!! He finally has a web
presence! Yippee!!! I don't care much for the flash intro, but I'm happy he
finally has stuff up on the web! |
Brad Davis has been playing his
Collings
CW-28 since 1990, which he purchased new from John Holman. John and Brad modified the CW to include Brad's "Brad-Bender".
Brad is one of the flatpicking icons and also one of the nicest guys on the
planet! Brad's band, White Water, is based in Nashville, TN and plays out frequently.
Do yourself a favor
and catch one of his shows. Brad will be playing his CW or his new Merrill
guitar. |
Bryan
Sutton – Bryan and David Grier's concert at the 2000 Camp Kaufman was some of
the best flatpicking on the planet!! |
Roland White –
Although Roland is primarily know for his mandolin work, he’s a great rhythm
guitarist and a very fine teacher! |
My old friend, Pete Huttlinger, has
made quite a name for himself over the past 10 years. He does session work in
Nashville, has performed in John Denver's touring band for the last 5 years of
Mr. Denver's life and used to teach at Cotten
Music in Nashville. Pete won the fingerstyle contest at the 2000 Walnut
Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Congratulations Pete!!! |
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Luthiers... |
C. F. Martin & Co. The birth place of the
dreadnought guitar (among many other wonderful instruments). |
Collings Guitars Did you know that Bill Collings builds one of
the finest archtop guitars in the country? Some folks believe he builds THE finest
archtop. The Collings archtop is one of my
"if I win the Lottery" guitars! |
John Allison of Allison Guitars has been applying the beautiful sunburst finishes on Collings guitars for
many years and has started building guitars on his own. |
Mario Proulx (rhymes with
"brew") lives up in the great north of Canada and is building some very fine
guitars! Highly recommended! |
Kim Walker operates a one-man
shop in North Stonington, CT and Kim is my other favorite small shop luthier. A
close friend has a Walker L-00 Maple/Adirondack that is the second best small
bodied guitar that I've played (her Collings Braz/Engelmann C-10 is the best)!
Most folks think a Maple/Adirondack guitar would be bright, but they are WRONG!
This is one of the mellowest, most even sounding guitars I've heard. My friend Ted owns a beautiful Braz/Ad
Walker OM. This guitar is incredibly beautiful. |
Linda Manzer's guitars are some of the finest
built today.
Pat Metheny, who is one of my guitar heroes, owns many of her guitars. Check out the Pikasso
guitar on her web site... |
Ervin Somogyi, is IMHO
building some of the finest instruments out there today. |
Shelly Park builds world class
Selmer style guitars. My friend Gus loves his Shelly Park guitar! |
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Cartoonists... |
Berkeley Breathed
- the genius creator of the comic strip, Bloom County and Outland. He
also contributed the drawings to the wonderful film
Secondhand Lions. |
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Retail Folks... |
My good friends Kim Sherman and Darci Cotten own and operate
Cotten Music in Nashville, TN. It's a
wonderful store where the prices are right and the service is extraordinary! Kim is affectionately known as the Collings
Queen and Darci as "Miss D". They are my favorite guitar/music
shop. Highly recommended!! |
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Vintage Instruments |
Maestro Antonio Plectro...
- my wonderful, old, beat-up D-18. |
The Old D-18 Club (aka - old dudes in
Maryville...) taken in June of 2005. |
Vintage Instruments
in Philadelphia, PA. Fred Oster usually has a number of fine vintage Gibson and Martin
guitars in stock. |
Intermountain Guitar and Banjo
usually has several vintage, prewar Martin guitars in stock. |
Jet City Guitars is another
site that lists many fine guitars. A local friend has purchased and sold several
fine vintage guitars through this store with good results. |
Players Vintage Instruments
carries a fine selection of vintage Gibson guitars and mandolins and vintage
Martin guitars. |
Vintage Guitars from
Serious Acoustics - Goodness gracious... |
Vintage Guitar Information can be found
here for several brands of
instruments. |
Bernuzio Vintage Instruments carries a
very wide variety of vintage instruments. |
The Museum of Modern Instruments -
This site is obviously a labor of love. The contents is second to no other site. |
more to come... |
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Is this cool or what... |
Coming soon... |
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Repair Folks... |
Mr. Frank Ford of Gryphon Stringed Instruments has a wonderful web
page with great information on guitar repair and maintenance. Mr. Ford is "DA
man" when it comes to repairs and restorations. |
My friend, Bryan Kimsey
performs excellent quality repair work at a very reasonable price. I trust Bryan's work. Highly recommended! |
Jim Grainger has been repairing vintage guitars for over 50 years. He has reslotted the saddle in my bridge for proper intonation as well as installed stainless steel frets and the work was quite good. His finish repair person repaired an ugly side crack in a '41 000-18 that I used to own and the work came out amazingly well. |
Dave Musslewhiteand TJ
Thompson are at the top of the vintage repair folks. TJ also builds
incredible OM reproductions. |
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Accessories and Crafts... |
Art Strings Publishing
is the publishing site for artist Karen Canon. Karen is a Winfield friend and a
REALLY fine artist. She's also an accomplished jazz guitarist. I love her work!
Highly recommended. |
Yep, I'm a capoholic... There, I admitted it. Can you? <g> I'm willing to bet that most of you are too! My favorite capo builder is
Phil Elliott. He builds. IMHO. a capo that is just as good, if not better,
than the McKinney capo. His waiting time is usually just a couple of weeks and
is now the only authorized builder of the the McKinney capo. Don't tell Phil I
told you, but he made one of his Elliott Elite capos for me and it's fantastic! Highly recommended! Oh,
I almost forgot to tell you that Phil is a fantastic singer and Bluegrass
guitarist. He plays the The Alan Munde Gazette. |
John Tilton of Tilton
Pottery makes the most incredible pottery! His work is spectacular. The man
is truly an artist!! |
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Tunes and Instruction Material... |
Steve Kaufman
is IMHO THE MAN in Flatpicking instructional material. "The Artist Formally
Known As SK" has been evangelizing Flatpicking for years. |
Homespun has tons of instructional aids for
the Flatpicking enthusiast. |
Mel Bay Publications has instructional
material for just about every instrument available. Great stuff!!! |
John Stropes of Stropes Editions
published a wonderful book on Michael Hedges music. It's a work of
art! |
Ceolas, the home of Celtic music
on the Internet |
The Fiddler's Companion at Ceolas |
Folk Music dot org - an excellent resource
for folk music... |
The Skeptical Guitarist
is a series of books with the intention of teaching the guitarist music theory
and improvisation skills. VERY highly recommended!! |
Fretboard Logic is an
excellent book to use to become acquainted with the guitar fretboard through the
CAGED system. |
Jamey Abersold's business is
teaching Jazz Improvisation and he does a great job at it too! Start with Vol 1
and Vol 78 for Holiday season tunes. Highly recommended! |
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Music Related Books... |
The
Inner Game of Music by Barry Green with W. Timothy Gallwey. - very
helpful in overcoming performance anxiety. Great book! |
Music Theory For Modern Guitar - by Thomas P. Ohmsen - An old book
recently reissued by John Lawless' company, AcuTab.
Highly recommended! |
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Walnut Valley Festival |
The mother of all Flatpicking festivals is the
Walnut
Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. My trips to Winfield have been some of
my most enjoyable musical adventures ever. OK, I admit
it, I'm addicted! <g> |
Picker's Paradise - Don
Shorock's tribute to Winfield. Lots of great info and fun pictures about the
festival. |
Carp Camp -
Dave Firestine has been hosting this camp for many years at Winfield. It's a
great place and a great group of folks. You'll find me hanging out here and at
the Picking Parlor tent while I'm at Winfield. |
Carpazon - More Carp Camp
info. |
General Info about
Winfield, Kansas from Skyways. |
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Festivals and Such... |
Merlefest - the name says it all.
Doc's
celebration of the life of his son, Merle Watson. I love this festival!! It's not the best
for parking lot picking, but you'll hear the finest performers in the Acoustic
Music
universe! |
Festival Finder |
Music Calendar
- an incredible resource! Isn't the internet COOL!!! |
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Wood, Wood and More Wood... |
Old Standard Musical Instrument
Wood sells Red (Adirondack) Spruce. Check their site for what's
available. |
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Organizations, Associations and Such... |
SEBA -
The Southeastern Bluegrass Association. My local Bluegrass association. |
IBMA - you know who they are... <g> |
Guitar Foundation of America - for
the classical guitarists in the crowd. |
The Chet Atkins Appreciation Society
- Appreciation for "Mr. Guitar"! |
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Regional Music... |
Louisiana Music - Louisiana contains
many different types of music. Outside of Louisiana , the most widely known are
Jazz, Zydeco and the various forms of Cajun music. This web site is a great
resource for all the wonderful forms of music in the great state of
Louisiana. |
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Software and Music Tools... |
TablEdit notation/tab software. The
feature I like about this product its ability to import ASCII tab files as well
as ABC and MIDI files!!! A VERY cool product! I use this program and Finale. |
ABC musical notation system |
Transcribe
- is software to help you transcribe recorded music. Highly recommended. In my personal toolbox of music related software is
Transcribe, Finale, Transcribe, Band in a Box and Adobe Audition. |
Band in the Box - develops excellent
accompaniment and tutorial software for your PC and Mac. |
Finale, by Coda Music Technology is
an excellent music notation. It's not cheap, but it produces beautiful notation
and tab. King Kaufman uses it for his notation and tab. I'm looking forward to
a version that allows the user to
enter tab first, then the program generates the notation for you! Gee...
TablEdit already does that for you! <bg> |
Peterson Tuners
have been around for many years with the strobe tuners, but they have
finally released several smaller "Virtual Tuners", such as the StroboFlip, which is what I use. Very nice. |
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Home Audio... |
I LOVE old Nakamichi cassette decks! The best source of info on old Naks
is www.naks.com |
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Friends... |
Peter Fryefield's trip to visit
Steve Kilby... Peter had a great time. |
Jenny Talton also spent a
weekend with the Kilby's. |
My friend Ted Blankenship's Kim Walker OM. This is a spectacular guitar! |
A.S.I.A. 2001 in Nashville, TN. Photo's
courtesy of Jenny Talton. You'll see photos of the folks at Cotten Music,
as well as my friends Ted Blankenship, John Mickelson, Steve Anderson,
Walter Abshire and myself. A few photos of us jamming are included. Was a
great trip! |
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Misc. stuff... |
Lethbridge Beer labels - don't ask...
Just
enjoy the coolness of these labels.. <bg> |
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What I play and use... |
I play a wonderful old
Martin Martin D-18.
I use an Accord Carbon Fiber/Kevlar "flight" case with a Colorado Case Cover in place of a gig bag for warm weather and festival travel. I use a Calton
Deluxe flight case with a Colorado Case cover for winter travel and dry weather protection. An Elliott capo, Blue Chip picks, and Elixir medium Phosphore Bronze strings. |
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