Twenty-one-year member Michael Elwell built a dulcimer kit in 1974 and was hooked. Searching for info in libraries he discovered the GAL, and has been a member off and on since. After constructing dulcimers and citterns, he made a classical guitar at Leeds Guitar Making School in 1998. When his job as a foundry pattern maker and project manager went to China, he started making mostly classical and flamenco guitars in the woods of North Idaho where he lives with his wife of fifty years.
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