Read Steve Newberry’s memoriam
Fifteen-year member Steve Newberry was a founding member of the postwar New York Society of Classic Guitar. As a guitarist he performed on radio, TV, and Broadway. He studied both music and math at numerous institutions of higher learning. Since retiring as a software consultant and technical writer in 1988 he has done considerable experimental lutherie and is a founding member of NCAL.
▪ bio current as of 2001
2001
AL#66 p.47 BRB6 p.198
Steve Newberry
▪ Tatay built guitars in the back room of a music store in WWII-era Manhattan. Newberry hung out then as a teenager. Not many of us have memories of our youth that are this cool. Alas. Or is it just that Newberry tells a really good tale? With 2 photos.
1990
AL#21 p.60 BRB2 p.500
Steve Newberry
▪ A collection of outstanding papers from the literature of acoustical physics.
1988
AL#15 p.60 BRB2 p.106
Steve Newberry
▪ Newberry proves mathematically that large frets do not cause an instrument to play out of tune (though they might easily help a guitarist to play out of tune. There’s a large theoretical difference).