Sergei de Jonge apprenticed with Jean Larrivée in the early ’70s and has been a guitar maker and lutherie teacher ever since. He makes steel string guitars, classical guitars, and other guitar makers. Literally. A number of his kids have followed him into the family business.
▪ bio current as of 2015
2015
AL#124 p.16
Steve Denvir Sergei de-Jonge
▪ It’s one of the founding legends of the American Lutherie Boom: the tale of Jean Larrivee’s original workshop in Toronto over forty years ago and the ragged young crew of would-be luthiers who gravitated there. From that beginning, Sergei de Jonge went on to found a lutherie dynasty in the Canadian back country.
2015
AL#123 p.24
Steve Denvir Sergei de-Jonge Grit Laskin Linda Manzer David Wren
▪ Remembrances of long-ago days working in Jean Larrivee’s Toronto shop by guitar makers who are now considered some of the best in the world.