[mplpost] Canadian Guitars

[Art Turner]

On 01/29/02 11:58 AM, "Peter MacDonald (Nutshell Music)"
<Peter@NutshellMusic.com> wrote:

> Things changed when I saw and heard guitars played by Steve Bell, Gord
> Johnson and Jon Buller, all Winnipeggers. Astonishingly beautiful
> instruments with the richest range of overtones I'd heard in a long time.
> They were made by Winnipeg luthier Daryl Perry
> http://www.perryguitars.com/index.html who is known much more widely in
> certain circles for his creation of concert classical guitars.

Daryl Perry is a fine luthier and a very nice man. He just did a lovely job
setting up my Larrivée.

> I'm curious to know from others on the list - players and industry types
> alike - what was the FIRST instrument that you owned? Do you still have it?

Aaargh. A battered $50 Kent electric (a present from my parents back in
'73), with action about an inch off the neck. Never did learn to play it!
Did manage, however, to learn Stairway to Heaven and Takin' Care of Business
on one of those sunburst El Degas acoustics a couple of years later (another
present: jeez, were they trying to tell me something?), then consigned it to
the closet as well. Then, in a last-ditch effort to turn me into a musician
before she died, my opera-singing mom gave me a black Washburn AE-120 for my
26th birthday back in '88. I bonked around on that for a few years till
Bruce Cockburn blew my mind, I traded Linda an old Hasselblad for my Manzer
in '93, and I've been a full-on junkie ever since!

Time for Terry Tufts to weigh in on this thread, methinks. Eh Terry?

Cheers,

Art

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