Canoe guide, folkie, guitar repairman, museum maven, GAL lecturer. Those are just a few of the many facets of Marc Silber.
▪ bio current as of 2013
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In Memoriam: Eugene Clark
2017
AL#129 p.56 read this article
Cyndy Burton Marc Silber Brian Burns Michael Gurian Jay Hargreaves R.E. Brune Jeffrey R. Elliott Federico Sheppard
▪ Eugene Clark (1934-2016) was one of the earliest and most influential pioneers of the American Lutherie Boom. Mentions Manuel Ramirez, Domingo Esteso, Santos Hernandez, Jon Lundberg, Freddie Mejia, David Rubio, Michael Gurian, David Santo, Lucien Barnes, Freddie Mejia, David Serva, Warren White, Manuel Velazquez, Manouk Papazian.
Thoughts on 12-String Guitars
2013
AL#113 p.50
Roger-Alan Skipper Dana Bourgeois Frank Ford Charles Freeborn David Freeman Evan Gluck John Greven George Gruhn Arnold M.J. Hennig Bruce Petros Andy Powers Tim Shaw Marc Silber Robert Steinegger
▪ 13 builders discuss various aspects of 12-string guitars.
Meet the Maker: Marc Silber
1996
AL#47 p.46 BRB4 p.364
Colin Kaminski Marc Silber
▪ Silber is a musician, nomad, repairman, musical historian, guitar designer, dealer, collector, and all around keeper of the flame. How can a man have so much fun and make a living at the same time?
Letter to the Editor: Notes on Mandolin History
1990
AL#24 p.4
Marc Silber
▪ Silber fills in some info on the lower-pitched members of the mandolin orchestra.
Questions: Cantos Guitars
1989
AL#20 p.58 BRB2 p.482
J.G. Molnar Marc Silber
▪ Cantos work was primitive but his materials good; the flamencos being of real Spanish cypress with fairly good spruce tops.