The Metaphysics of the Guitar

2006
AL#85 p.54               
Ervin Somogyi                                                                                           

▪ If a simple formulation of wooden parts was all it took to make a guitar there would be no small shops and no handbuilders. The factories would get it right and their efficiency would rule out the little guys. But the factories don’t, and the little guys haven’t been. Somogyi takes a shot at explaining why this is so.