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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... |
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My friend Dan Miller publishes a wonderful magazine, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, dedicated to the art of the flatpicked guitar. |
| Jerry Garland has a great site devoted to flatpicking artists and tunes. You should check it out!! It just so happens that Jerry owns a beautiful Sunburst Collings Clarence White 28 guitar. |
| The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum is my favorite forum on the web. |
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Bluegrass Music... |
| The Bluegrass Blog is a wonderful source for up to date information on the going on in Bluegrass music. |
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Clarence White... |
| The Official Clarence White web site - coming soon. Michelle White (Clarence's daughter) is redesigning this site. |
| Clarence White |
| Clarence White's Footprints on the Records |
| The Clarence White Forum |
| Clarence White bio |
| Clarence White discography. |
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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! |
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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. |
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David Grier - Brad Davis said it best, "David is the Shakespeare of the guitar". Buy David's CD's. You won't regret it! His playing is amazing. |
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Bryan Sutton – Bryan and David Grier's concert at the 2000 Camp Kaufman was some of the best flatpicking on the planet!! |
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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!!! |
| My friend Rob Bulkley is based in the Seattle, WA. Rob's an excellent guitarist and a very fine teacher. If you're in the Seattle area contact Rob for a lesson and catch one of his performances! |
| Craig Wagner - Craig is one of the finest jazz guitarists I've heard in many years. Even though he's a friend, I'm not biased! <bg> I'm looking forward to his solo CD so the rest of the world can hear his incredible arrangements of Superstition, Roundabout and Billy Jean... you won't be disappointed. |
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Luthiers... |
| C. F. Martin & Co. The birth place of the dreadnought guitar (among many other wonderful instruments). |
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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. |
| Randy Lucas has been building guitars for over 15 years and he is one of my favorite small shop luthiers. His new SJ and LJ guitars are beautiful instruments. Highly recommended. |
| 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. |
| My friend Mitch Corbin has started building guitars under his own name. He has been working as an apprentice with Lynn Dudenbostel for several years and has started building guitars on his own. I have one on order and advise you to do the same as I believe Mitch will grow to be a great luthier. Mitch is one of the nicest guys you're going to meet and one of the finest guitar players on the planet. |
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Santa Cruz Guitars - Makes a very fine 12-fret Mahogany/German Spruce D! Their Tony Rice Indian/Adirondack guitars are IMHO one of the best bargains in an Indian Rosewood dreadnought guitar. |
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James Goodall's guitars are aesthetically beautiful and sound wonderful!! I think his web site is the most beautiful I've seen. It shouldn't surprise me since Mr. Goodall was a visual artist before he started building guitars. |
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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... |
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Ervin Somogyi, is IMHO building some of the finest instruments out there today. |
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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... |
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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. |
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Is this cool or what... |
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Repair Folks... |
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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. |
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My friend, Bryan Kimsey performs excellent quality repair work at a very reasonable price. He replaced the bridgeplate and PMTE in my old D-18 and is currently refretting my old D-18 with stainless steel frets. I trust Bryan's work. Highly recommended! |
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Joe Glaser of Glaser Instruments in Nashville, TN pleked and setup my old D-18 back in 2005 and the result was stunning. My wonderful old guitar played clearly up to the 20th fret on all 6 strings. It was easier to play, played in tune AND it was cleaner sounding. Good stuff! |
| Dave Musslewhite and 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. |
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My friend John Mickelson crafts Fossil Ivory Guitar Accessories. He makes the most beautiful bridge pins, end pins and strap pins for guitars! Sometimes he has nut and saddle blanks available too. Here is a photo of my bridge pins with green Paua shell dots... Check out John's web site for the details on what's up in the beautiful little Alaskan town of Seldovia. |
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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. |
| Carl McIntyre makes some of the finest pickups for acoustic instruments in the business. IMHO, his new Feather pickup sounds great!! |
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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... |
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Steve Kaufman is IMHO THE MAN in Flatpicking instructional material. "The Artist Formally Known As SK" has been evangelizing Flatpicking for years. |
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Homespun has tons of instructional aids for the Flatpicking enthusiast. |
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Mel Bay Publications has instructional material for just about every instrument available. Great stuff!!! |
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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!! |
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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... |
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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 |
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| The Walnut Valley Picking Parlor - my tribute web page for my home away from home at the Walnut Valley Festival. I'm starting to post photos and tunes for the Winfield Picking Parlor crowd. If you're interested in participating in our jams at the Picking Parlor, email me and I'll send you the link to the tunes page. |
| 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... |
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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... |
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Old Standard Musical Instrument Wood sells Red (Adirondack) Spruce. Check their site for what's available. |
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Education... |
| Berklee College of Music was one of the highlights of my musical education. |
| North Carolina School of the Arts - I studied classical guitar with Aaron Shearer at NCSA and I treasure the time I spent studying with Mr. Shearer. It's an excellent school! The only thing it is missing is a traditional music school. |
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Organizations, Associations and Such... |
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SEBA - The Southeastern Bluegrass Association. My local Bluegrass association. |
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IBMA - you know who they are... <g> |
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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. |
| Transcribe - is software to help transcribe recorded music. This application is wayyyyy cool!!!! Highly recommended. In my personal toolbox of music related software is Transcribe, Finale, Transcribe, Band in a Box and Adobe Audition (CoolEdit Pro). |
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Band in the Box - develops excellent accompaniment and tutorial software for your PC and Mac. |
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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 VS-II and the V-SAM. I use one of the VS-II units and it actually makes my guitar sound sweeter. Very cool! |
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Recording Info... |
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Home Audio... |
| I LOVE old Nakamichi cassette decks! The best source of info on old Naks is www.naks.com |
| I enjoy recording live situations and jams with my Mini-Disc recorder (a Sony MZ-R50). Minidisc.org is a great source for info on Mini-Disc technology as well as info on recorders, players, microphones and discs, etc... |
| Sound Professionals builds great microphones for live recording with a Mini-Disc. I use one of the little "T" mics that plugs directly into my portable MD recorder. |
| Another great site for the recording enthusiast is DAT Heads. This site has tons a great info for folks interested in DAT recording. |
| Home Recording Magazine is a great magazine directed towards the home recording enthusiast. |
| Minidisco.com is an excellent web based retail outlet that specializes in Mini-Disc related equipment, mics and discs. |
| Planet MINIDISC is another excellent source of supplies and such for your (and my) Mini-Disc needs. |
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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 "lite flight" case in place of a gig bag, a Calton Deluxe flight case, Colorado Case cover on the Calton case, an Elliott capo, Wegen picks, Elixir medium Nanoweb (80/20) strings and a Peterson tuner. |
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Web Site Design... |
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Here are a select few of the sites we've built or host: Lucas Guitars, Proulx Guitars, McIntyre pickups, Borges Guitars (hosting)... |
The mother of all Flatpicking festivals is the
