Twenty-year GAL member Wes Brandt used to make guitars and then gambas in Portland, Oregon. He tried living and working on a lovely canal in Amsterdam, but the tug of the Pacific Northwest is pulling him home. Locate him soon on the www.
▪ bio current as of 2006
2006
AL#85 p.62
Phil Neuman Wes Brandt Tim Olsen
▪ Plans for stringed instruments of the middle ages: citara (kithara) fidula, etc.
2005
AL#82 p.67
Wes Brandt
▪ Wes knows no makers of orpharions in the USA, but steers the questioner to Stephen barber in the UK.
1993
AL#33 p.36 BRB3 p.303
Wes Brandt
▪ A well-known repairman delivers eight tips, including an alternate way to bend a Venetian cutaway, tool tips, and a way to bend sides more accurately.
1989
AL#18 p.42 BRB2 p.238
Jonathon Peterson Wes Brandt
▪ Peterson offers a short interview with a luthier who makes small-bodied steel string guitars from alternative woods.