For the price of a Martin, produced in some far-away factory by anonymous hands, you could instead have a Sisson, made in Camp Washington by the man himself. Chris Sisson is the proprietor of ...

BACK TO LIFE: This 1930 Martin OM-45 is being restored in the Dream Guitars repair shop. Photo courtesy of Dream Guitars In the nearly 20 years that he’s owned Weaverville-based instrument shop Dream ...

The bustle of Hank’s Music Exchange, the instrument dealer that takes up the front half of the business on 33rd and Hawthorne, is fairly typical. While Stereolab plays over the in-house sound system, ...

To say the restoration work is synergistic with Daves’ creative process is an understatement — he gets to test-drive the guitars Carter restores on her own. It often helps him find “the right tool for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jack Ellis and his team run an independent Manchester guitar setup and guitar repair service from ...

“Our goal is to promote the good feelings that we’ve gotten playing music ourselves” Frank Ford says, “if we could make more musicians we’d like to do that.“ He and Richard Johnston began Gryphon ...