2009
AL#100 p.40 ALA5 p.68
Christian Steinert
▪ Building an early period Baroque era guitar replica believed to be the onetime property of Marie Antoinette.
1999
AL#59 p.6 BRB5 p.374
Frank Ford
▪ A top repairman tackles the sticky subject of what repair and restoration work should be tackled in this age of vintage instrument mania, especially in the area of elective surgery. Even today’s utilitarian instruments may be tomorrow’s hot collectibles, so every instrument that passes over our bench has to be considered in this light. What work should we refuse, and what are our liabilities for the work we do? Includes 41 photos, mostly of vintage guitars and mandolins.
This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s fifty best articles published before 2010.
1992
AL#32 p.4 BRB3 p.238 read this article
Ken Sribnick Gayle Miller
▪ A one-of-a-kind, almost fabled instrument.
1992
AL#32 p.6 BRB3 p.240 read this article
Ken Sribnick Gayle Miller
▪ The lute photographers relate a wonderful anecdote about their pilgrimage to the London shop of Charles Beare to shoot the unicorn, er, no, the great white lute. With 3 more photos.
1992
AL#32 p.7 BRB3 p.241 read this article
Robert Lundberg
▪ It seems that there is real doubt about the authenticity of this very same lute. American Lutherie’s lute meister looks at the photos and thinks, “Hmm, maybe it is real.” With one more photo of Moby Lute.
1992
AL#29 p.57 BRB3 p.484
Jurgen Goering
▪ Get free ivory from piano repair shops. They may have cast-off ivories from key tops replaced by plastic.
1990
AL#21 p.12 BRB2 p.354
Cyndy Burton Michael Yeats
▪ Training, ethics, money—all luthiers face the same dilemmas, but it’s possible that those who face the field of professional classical musicians are tried a little harder. Yeats offers straight talk about all three issues.
1986
AL#6 p.51
Bill Hultgren
▪ Hultgren mentions a source for elephant ivory, though he finds its use unethical. He also warns that anthrax can be contracted from working with infected ivory, and that most American doctors will not recognize its symptoms. St. Croix instrument kits get a nod of approval.