tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65845090146410406482024-03-05T14:43:17.545-08:00New World Guitar CompanyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584509014641040648.post-11674551705529509532014-03-24T12:13:00.000-07:002014-03-24T12:13:23.220-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf6tLoTWfFqUjbYhYflBnbTXfINYkblRi0WHuRoy3TFEVmdhjjCfQ5IWfngCOqWm08NU3Ir9F5psYIpo_RnQrm-7hj4468ZMP5ZUDvQ3uwX8wM_NOtdmDFwubnWuP_Wy9T7k95jj6fELdu/s1600/crest.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf6tLoTWfFqUjbYhYflBnbTXfINYkblRi0WHuRoy3TFEVmdhjjCfQ5IWfngCOqWm08NU3Ir9F5psYIpo_RnQrm-7hj4468ZMP5ZUDvQ3uwX8wM_NOtdmDFwubnWuP_Wy9T7k95jj6fELdu/s1600/crest.gif" height="187" width="200" /></a><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Since the fall of 2007 it's been a rapid climb, the growth and maturing of our guitar program. After a year and a half to get my bearings in teaching guitar, (being a trained percussionist and saxophonist), I found myself opening and walking through a new door into a different and ultimately better world. Creating an all new guitar program from scratch was challenging. My school administrators never once told me what to do with my classes or how to teach them. I am blessed to have their unfailing support, allowing me to freely push my teaching and to find answers (and the right people) to make my students and program better. And, while I had a vision of what the Freedom High School Guitar Program could become, I never imagined everything would move forward so well and so quickly.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc60gTIaPIPCnbIlokhIDFBZ1QHDXrEOtC6oMdk9EDmmdBNKyUBuzrEPAQzP4nEqSuy1U2EH4sI-ZRcMfE1SwBGwkbAqFTOKWHXmDjLpS6echZmfRDc_swNfpKLJg-xpryt-O1i0QLt44/s1600/ligfperformancewarmup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc60gTIaPIPCnbIlokhIDFBZ1QHDXrEOtC6oMdk9EDmmdBNKyUBuzrEPAQzP4nEqSuy1U2EH4sI-ZRcMfE1SwBGwkbAqFTOKWHXmDjLpS6echZmfRDc_swNfpKLJg-xpryt-O1i0QLt44/s1600/ligfperformancewarmup.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></span></a><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">After having countless guitar-centric questions answered by many incredible and wonderful guitar colleagues and professors from all over the U.S., I worked my students hard with lots of teaching, challenging rehearsals, clinics, master classes, and well over 100 concert and festival performances. We arrived 6 years later as a top notch program where in early 2013, the FHS Guitar Orchestra performed in concert at our Florida Music Educators Association All-State Music Conference and a few months later in New York, at the Long Island Guitar Festival. Though we are now known on an international level, we (teacher and students) also realize there is so much incredible guitar music out there to discover, learn and master. Our program musically, artistically, and personally can never rest in the past and always will need to search, learn, grow and continue to move forward.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">The next stage in filling the "needs" and "gaps" of my program was to have a private study guitar class; a conservatory for students who plan on preparing and auditioning for college. Again, my school administration was very supportive by adding this new layer of class to my program. For the past few years I was painfully aware of the limitations regarding the guitars we currently have. They were entry level models and were used by my students...all 190+ of them...six classes a day...180 days each school year. My beginners fared well; my burgeoning number of advanced students are now playing very complex, challenging music on instruments that no longer matched their musical and technical ability. We needed something more...something better.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 24px;">In the spring of 2013 I began the "Great Search" to find a respected guitar luthier that produced not only quality guitars, but also were "economical". Among the different responses I received, Dr. Stephen Robinson (Stetson University) recommended several luthiers for me to contact. "You should contact Kenny Hill and check out his guitars. There is a growing interest in the Guitar Community about his NEW WORLD line of instruments", he said. After visiting his website to see artist videos of his guitars used in performance, visiting a few shops to try different instruments and personally talking with Kenny about his guitars, I was immediately sold. It was very evident that Kenny's instruments sounded not only incredible, they were affordable, and made to his exacting standards. That instrument is the all solid NEW WORLD Player Series.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 24px;">Through email and phone conversations with Kenny and Larry Darnell (his partner in crime), I learned about Kenny’s trips to Guangzhou, China, teaching his personal luthier techniques to new "students", starting a factory there, travelling overseas every four to six weeks to maintain "Quality Control", and receiving each instrument to "personally set-up" before shipping from Ben Lomond, California to around the world. At the very end of April 2013 one of our last phone exchanges was this:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhtwniBgIubCcN4JIsbwaJA7JBC9MneNmx7g1Qz43A21aeSUgneqSmWL47uTOAgIswrgTGsSlyECm6ZetBG3UIQImCBR3igLwLWmE2Hz5qKIqgUNhumUpj8h3XqyZ7__e_K3b6oO-Kwys/s1600/10+hill+guitars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhtwniBgIubCcN4JIsbwaJA7JBC9MneNmx7g1Qz43A21aeSUgneqSmWL47uTOAgIswrgTGsSlyECm6ZetBG3UIQImCBR3igLwLWmE2Hz5qKIqgUNhumUpj8h3XqyZ7__e_K3b6oO-Kwys/s1600/10+hill+guitars.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></span></a><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"So, how many do you think you will need?" Kenny asked.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"I need...ten.", I replied.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"Ten? Really, ten?"</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"Yes, ten of the P650 size. What do you think? Should I get all Cedar or all Spruce guitars?"</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"I think five Cedar and five Spruce Player Series models would be a great blend for your students. It would be a great sound, especially if you play together."</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"You are right. It would be a wonderful sound together. We need to get them quickly though."</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"What is your timeline?"</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"Is there any possibility to take delivery by August, before the next school year begins?"</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">"Hmm.......let me check production orders in the factory. I'll get back to you."</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><br />After that things happened very fast. In the span of only six weeks, Hill Guitars became a vendor with our school district (this was a major purchase), secured vendor numbers and put funds in place, shipped the guitars from overseas to California, went through his shop for Kenny's personal set-up, and shipped all ten to our school by mid-June. It was a very happy day when they arrived! Several of my students and a few colleagues were on hand to help open the boxes and try each one! Hill's NEW WORLD Player Series was the only choice to what we needed; an affordable, professional entry level guitar that to me, rivals many other models two to three times the price. With both solid Cedar and Spruce models, they are wonderfully crafted instruments. The beauty and transparency of tone in each guitar was very consistent with one another. It was obvious that the attention to detail in each guitar from construction to finish was very high. Again, made to Kenny's exacting standards.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aside from daily practices and rehearsals, the instruments were recently used by our students for high profile events including a clinic presentation at the FMEA All-State Music Conference, the Orange County Public Schools All-County Honor Guitar Festival, and accompanying William Kanengiser's performance of Shingo Fujii's "Concierto de Los Angeles for Solo Guitar and Guitar Orchestra". Everywhere we use the Hill Guitars, there is genuine interest on where and how they are made. Of course, everyone appreciates its warm tone, sonority and ease in playability. Even one of my senior students who will major in guitar performance in college next year purchased a Hill Performance model last November; he too sold on the quality of instrument Kenny creates. The lattice bracing and two tone holes at the top of the guitar body by the neck were big selling points!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">The NEW WORLD guitars are a wonderful addition to the Freedom High School Guitar Program. My students are now able to better explore and properly prepare music without the need to "struggle" on an inferior instrument. In the coming years we will add more Hill Guitars to our growing inventory. Kenny runs a wonderful and quickly growing company in Hill Guitars and should be proud of the instruments that he is creating. The luthier techniques he uses produce guitar of the highest quality. My students love playing on his instruments! As the Director of Guitar for Freedom High School, I am proud to say we fully endorse the Hill Guitar Company and the NEW WORLD Player Series model of guitars!</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Christopher Perez</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Director of Guitar Studies</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Freedom High School</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">https://teacher.ocps.net/christopher.perez/</span><br />
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<pre wrap=""><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: white;">Our participation as Hill Guitar has been quite satisfying. When Jayme first told me about the idea 3 years ago the first thing that jumped into my mind was to put together a guitar making demo. And we did it. For the February 7th event at the Museum of Art and History my sons and I moved part of our workshop into the museum atrium and built guitars in public, while many of the best musicians of Santa Cruz took stage to demo the varied fine guitars of our local luthiers. More than a thousand people turned out that evening and it was wonderful to see how intrigued they were watching our craftsmen at work, neck carving, side bending, the inside details of the instruments, and French polishing. The boys did an amazing job just doing their work, in addition to explaining their processes and reasons, and glowing with enthusiasm. I'm very proud of them. </span></span></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: white;">The two concerts we sponsored were also grand. First Evan Hirschelman opened a show sharing the bill with with Bill Coulter and Alex de Grassi. My God, I've heard Evan play many times, but he always astounds me with the power, imagination and virtuosity of his compositions. That sold out show was amazing, and we actually arranged a second house concert so we could hear it all again. Then 4 days later the Athens Guitar Duo came in from Georgia. I had heard a recent CD of theirs, but never actually met them, and once again, their playing and their repertoire was so beautiful. Their performances were very satisfying, moving, and it is very gratifying to hear our instruments do what they are made to do on such a lofty level.
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<pre wrap=""><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Thanks to everyone who came out. We live in an amazing community. This show focusing on luthiers of Santa Cruz was much more than that, it became a stand in for all of the creativity and beauty that our neighbors and friends and family support here all the time. For all of the luthiers I know here, the business is necessarily world wide. In fact lutherie in Santa Cruz is essentially an export business. Though we sell a few instruments locally to local musicians, I think 90% of hand-made guitar sales will go to other parts of the country or the world, which helps keep the Santa Cruz trade balance positive. It is a privilege to be based in a place where art and ideas and creativity can be so well cultivated and appreciated. It is good to see all of our colleagues getting together, and realize how the love of the work still infects us all, maybe even stronger than when we began. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsIzntVKOOwDF9Sk71eyUxBUPfpPhqSJEyWxDuxLBLeoobp6XYmeZK0U2D8CnEtgL8zOktPaRHA3yr6ZspZ93rD5k6KlICS7fdRWcXu0FIpDT0WYgJnsi_wYALELhyFOHLGZty9V55Po/s1600/by+lighthouse.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsIzntVKOOwDF9Sk71eyUxBUPfpPhqSJEyWxDuxLBLeoobp6XYmeZK0U2D8CnEtgL8zOktPaRHA3yr6ZspZ93rD5k6KlICS7fdRWcXu0FIpDT0WYgJnsi_wYALELhyFOHLGZty9V55Po/s320/by+lighthouse.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Guitar making is very much a lifelong love affair with wood. The 4-6 different woods that go into an individual guitar each has a different purpose and characteristics, and they come from all over the world. There is no one country or continent that supplies all of the materials that go into a traditional classical guitar. Traveling to the source and seeing the trees being harvested and turned into guitar materials can be very exciting, and offers a lot of insight into the character of wood and how valuable and hard won it is as a resource. I've been to some of those sources, but by no means all. I've never seen a rosewood tree or an ebony tree, maybe I still can someday.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here along the central coast of California there is one tree that is fairly common and useful for some types of guitar making, and that is the Monterey</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="il" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cypress</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Though there are small native groves at Point Lobos and Pebble Beach near Monterey, most of the tree stands around the state have been planted for landscaping purposes. We see a lot of old trees on military land, in parks and cemeteries, and around farm lands, lining roads or fields, I guess to serve as wind breaks.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">At Hill guitar we use</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="il" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cypress</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> for flamenco guitars, and also as the inner material of the laminated sides on the Signature Model. I laminate t</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he sides on the Signature for the added stability and for the added aroma. It's extra work and materials, but I think it does something good for the instrument. Some other guitar makers such as Daniel Friedrich, Robert Ruck, and Jose Ramirez laminate sides on some models. I don't know why they do it, I've never asked them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So when we started running low o</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">n </span><span class="il" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cypress</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I had to go looking for it. Years ago I had quite a bit of experience finding logs and milling guitar wood, but I haven't had to do it in a long time. I always have my eye out for trees falling down or being cut, so I started looking more carefully. I found that Steve Jackel had cut up some big trees in Watsonville, so Simon and I went out and went through his whole stack of </span><span class="il" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cypress</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to get the good stuff. We picked out maybe 300 board feet, hauled it back to the shop and started milling it into sides and backs right away. This will be enough to last a long time. It's kind of messy work, but it's fun and makes the shop smell nice and spicy. We don't have to get it all done at once, we can put in a few hours now and then when there's free time.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Monterey </span><span class="il" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cypress</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is the one material we can get locally, but we still have to order everything else from other parts of the world. That's just the way it is. In the future we ma</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">y make a line of guitars using more domestic or local woods, and this sort of pursuit becomes more important as the worldwide supplies of traditional materials become more scarce or controlled. Classical guitar has deep tradition running through it and consumers may not be quite ready to accept major changes in the look or the sound of the guitar from new materials. But searching for and cutting wood is interesting and satisfying, and cultivates such a more intimate connection with the materials, carrying on that lifelong love affair with wood. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a href="http://www.omniconcerts.com/index.html" style="line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">is entering its 33rd year of bringing the world’s finest acoustic guitarists to the San Francisco Bay Area. Although the series presents acoustic guitarists of all genres, such as flamenco, jazz and fingerstyle, the primary focus is on the classical guitar. The series is the longest running and most extensive guitar series in the United States and is considered to be one of the foremost guitar series in the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Omni presents not only the most celebrated virtuoso of our time but also the emerging artists and stars of tomorrow. The concerts take place in San Francisco’s most prestigious concert venues, both intimate and grand and great efforts are made to insure accessibility to the entire Bay Area community, particularly students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Omni Foundation, under the artistic direction of its founder, Richard Patterson, continues to provide a significant position for the classical guitar in the vibrant cultural scene of San Francisco. With the support of serious guitar enthusiasts and the City of San Francisco, Omni presents over 20 exceptional guitarists each season. We hope you will join us and experience the brilliance, beauty and potential of this exquisite instrument, the guitar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Performance Series is the newest line of fine guitars designed and built in the Hill California workshop. These guitars offer a great sounding high-quality modern concert instrument at a medium price - List $5500 w case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Performance Series is handmade in the traditional Spanish style, with the integral body and neck joint, and incorporates a modern double top soundboard, with lattice or fan-bracing. Sound ports are standard, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">unless requested otherwise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • Sound board: Damann style double top comprised</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> of Western red cedar, Nomex and Englemann</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> spruce, Lattice bracing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Sound ports</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • Back & sides: Indian rosewood </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Fingerboard: ebony</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • String length: 650mm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• 20th fret extention</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • Tuners: Gotoh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Finish: French polish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • Lightweight double-acting truss rod </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Fingerboard at the nut: 51mm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • Overall length: 39 1/2” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Body length: 19 1/2”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • Upper bout: 11” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Lower bout: 14 1/4”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> • Body depth: 3 3/4 - 4” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This guitar will be showcased at each concert where you can enter your name into the raffle for only $20! You can also buy raffle tickets online here: <a href="https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=76baa4a448f147b51d496a95845a4b33" target="_blank">Buy Raffle Tickets</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read about all of the Omni concert raffle prizes here: <a href="http://www.omniconcerts.com/Omni_Raffle13-14.pdf" target="_blank">2013-14 Omni Foundation Raffle</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584509014641040648.post-70952378196188913032013-10-17T14:53:00.000-07:002013-10-17T14:53:34.048-07:00And so I named her Angel<span style="font-size: large;">Hill Guitar recently received a wonderful letter from Martha Stuart and her new Hill Torres that she named Angel. Read her letter to find out why!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Dear Mr. Hill,</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i></i><i>Just wanted to thank you so very much for creating such a beautiful guitar. I am just getting back to playing classical guitar after many years. While searching online for a guitar, I came upon Savage classical guitar. I Found the Hill Torres F5 3412 and fell in love with it. I have owned some fantastic guitars in the past, but, when I saw the Torres, I knew it had to be mine. It arrived the next day. I opened the case and there was the most gorgeous guitar I have ever seen. A work of art! The quilted maple back and sides, for some reason, reminded me of angel wings and the voice of the instrument is incredible. And so I named her ANGEL. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i><i>Thanks so much, and I will tell Angel you said Hello.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">I will take good care of her. </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i><i>Martha Stuart"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We gave Martha a call this week to see how Angel was doing and Martha told us that Angel still is "the finest guitar she has ever played" and she was very thankful to have her.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Kenny and the gang at Hill Guitar Company are delighted to hear that their guitars are in happy hands!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you may have previously read on our blog, Clare Callahan, Professor of Classical Guitar at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, recently put on the <a href="http://www.ccmguitarworkshop.org/" target="_blank">30th annual Classical Guitar Workshop. </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hill Guitar Company donated a New World Estudio guitar to be awarded to a guitarist at the Saturday night workshops. Clare thanked us and said "Your guitar will be the cherry on top!"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The lucky winner of the guitar was Diane Konyk who shared a few words with us about her new guitar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><i>"Thank you for the New World 650c! I was looking for a classical guitar that sounds great, looks beautiful, and also has a thinner neck, better action than my current guitar, and this model fits my needs. The 650c has a full bass sound that carries, and I find the upper notes ring nicely. My wrist also thanks you because with my smaller hands, I needed a different guitar and this fits me very well. I am having fun playing it and will add it to my performances!" </i></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are so happy to hear that Diane's new guitar seems to be a perfect fit! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Congratulations Diane!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584509014641040648.post-64757201854924261012013-09-05T18:56:00.000-07:002013-09-05T19:01:04.004-07:00La Guitarra, here we come!<div class="style5" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; line-height: 25.5px; text-align: -webkit-center;">
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This 3-day Festival is a “Celebration of Guitar” featuring 15 artists in 9 concerts, 5 Masterclasses, and a free lecture. The Vendor Fair will have 40 Luthiers exhibiting their hand made instruments, and attendees can place their bid on a new guitar in the silent auction.<br />
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For more La Guitarra information click here:<a href="http://www.laguitarracalifornia.com/" target="_blank"> La Guitarra Website</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584509014641040648.post-81528272604442988932013-08-05T14:30:00.000-07:002013-08-05T14:35:10.098-07:00New World Guitar Company to be among luthiers from around the world in Healdsburg<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #333300;">Healdsburg Guitar Festival is this weekend!</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<b>Meet the Hill Guitar luthiers and admire, order or purchase a custom made guitar. <br /> </b><br />
<b>Take a Players Workshop to improve your playing and composing skills.<br /> </b><br />
<b>Enjoy great guitarists playing Demonstration Concerts for </b><b>the
builders who make their music possible. Don't miss our own Kenny Hill
in this line-up! He will be performing on Friday from 1:50 to 2:10</b><br />
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In 1995, the Healdsburg Guitar
Festival provided a venue for guitar enthusiasts to tryout guitars in
the presence of the builder, and also hosted workshops taught by
professional performers, who, in turn, demonstrated the musical
qualities of the show's custom guitars in a concert setting. The sense
of festive community that was established by this interconnected circle
continues to this day, and the party we call The Healdsburg Guitar
Festival has served a major role in validating the art of modern
lutherie ever since.<br />
The festival has helped promote high standards for quality guitars as
well as create a stable market for them. “If there is a heaven, it
looks just like the Healdsburg Guitar Festival,” wrote guitar buyer
Henry Lowenstein in the 2005 edition of Blue Book of Acoustic Guitars.
And he continued, “The nation's best luthiers get together to talk,
play, and show the best of what they have to offer to the public. Every
year they have the grand masters as well as fresh faces at the show.
This is not only a great chance to meet the luthiers themselves and
learn some really serious academic guitar-building theory, but also to
make use of the numerous "quiet rooms," which allow you to actually play
and compare these extraordinary instruments.”<br />
<a href="http://guitarfestival.lmii.com/" target="_blank">Click here for festival information.</a><br />
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We hope to see you there!</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="color: #f3f3f3;">We recieved a very nice letter from Clare Callahan, Professor Classical Guitar, from the College Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati thanking us profusely for our gift of a New World Estudio Guitar to their 30th Anniversary of the Classical Guitar Workshop. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: small;">Initially Jon Marshall got in touch with us about getting ideas for awarding a guitar at the workshops Saturday concert – "and you just solved the whole problem by sending us one!" says Clare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: small;"> She stated "We don't have a competition, so that wouldn't be the mechanism, we have guitarists age 10 through retirement…who convene for a week in July and attend classes in Technique, Ensemble, Masterclasses, and Special Topics. Every night we show another facet of the guitar in recitals – with other guitars, with other instruments, as a solo instrument, playing in the Saturday Guitar Orchestra and then a concert devoted to only participants doing solos, duos, trios, quartets, etc. on Sunday afternoon. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It's a slow process, getting classical guitar into the American musical bloodstream, because this is a Pop country. But we deserve a place at the table… the instrument is beautiful and the repertoire terrific! Most guitarists don't even know the extent and breadth of their own repertoire! We celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Classical Guitar Department here in April and ten days from now we'll celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Classical Guitar Workshop. Your guitar will be the cherry on top! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Over the years, we've had several Kenny Hill guitars in the department. Jordan</span> Dodson, one of the first two students to be admitted to the new Curtis Institute of Music Guitar program two years ago plays one. Andy Wygant, who is leaving in September for Brussels to study with Antigoni plays one. Patrick Smith who is headed out to study with David Tanenbaum at San Francisco Conservatory plays one. Others have come through the department…. And Rod Stucky in the Prep Dept has students on your instruments. We are always pleased with Kenny Hill guitars and are delighted to have this one to award on Saturday, July 13th! We'll put the names of all the participants in a hat and draw a name….many, many thanks for your continued high standard of Instrument making and for this generous gift!"</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rich Sayage<a href="http://savageclassical.com/shop/category/kenny-hill-guitars/" target="_blank"> Savage Classical Guitar</a> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We've returned from N<span style="font-size: small;">AMM</span>
2013 safe and more or less sane, a week of packing and carrying guitars,
travel, selling, socializing with customers, vendors, friends, partners
and family. Overall the mood of the show was intense, upbeat, with most
people well involved in their businesses and lives, with not a whole
lot of the lament and woe that we've heard in the previous couple of
years. Our own guitars get great reviews and are moving well, and our
company is enjoying a good reputation and fine friendships around the
world. It's a real privilege in this business to know and connect with
many different characters from around the entire globe, a vivid example
of how beautifully woven modern international relations and commerce
truly are. The world could learn a lot about international relations
from hanging around at NAMM, and in fact, we do. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxh9IE1XeEsD1AEPKClZ1oFnXHq2Im-lK5DkFSUO0MqtYPqiOnLj1IokdMpABDDKvhl1PpzNgrkHREXWmysfpDw5tyJYIHTC_fwIJ9QAnAN2IhroUZOyk47RBRy_Fo0rUBbYWpKyR8_p0/s1600/NAMMplayer.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxh9IE1XeEsD1AEPKClZ1oFnXHq2Im-lK5DkFSUO0MqtYPqiOnLj1IokdMpABDDKvhl1PpzNgrkHREXWmysfpDw5tyJYIHTC_fwIJ9QAnAN2IhroUZOyk47RBRy_Fo0rUBbYWpKyR8_p0/s200/NAMMplayer.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For me the most important development within this years NAMM was the
efforts of my sons Simon and Quillan. This year I threw much of the
responsibility for the mounting the show into their laps. They had to
pack the instruments and display booth, drive it down, unload and set it up,
and at the end undo the process. What they also did beautifully was
occupy the booth assist with sales and hosting for all four days of the show.
They met people, old customers and new, vendors old and new, and
attracted some very fine young musicians, spontaneously playing
beautiful music in our booth. These kids are youth magnets, reaching new
people I would never meet no matter how many shows I attend. Simon and
Quillan are smart, energetic, funny, personable, good looking and young!
They seemed to slip into the role of the face and the work of the
company quite naturally, and I am very, very proud of them. I hope they
enjoyed being there as much as everyone else enjoyed them. I am also
very grateful for the presence and efforts of Jessica Stark, who keeps
everything going smoothly, makes friends easily, and reminds us to mind
our manners. She's great. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We're all back at work now, making guitars, making music, and getting
them all out to the world. Thank you to everyone for your support and
interest. I am grateful to be in such a rewarding field, surrounded by
so many good people and projects. It feels like we are just getting
started. </span><br />
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Feb 1, 2013</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584509014641040648.post-9332074418422413652012-11-09T12:46:00.000-08:002012-11-09T12:46:32.550-08:00Dusty Strings Music Shop joins New Worlds Dealer Family!<h1>
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<strong>We delivered 2 New World Estudio Models and 2 New World Player Models to the Music Store this week. If you get into the store, be sure to pick one up and give it a try. You will find they play and sound great, and will give you years of pleasure! </strong></div>
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Headquartered in Ben Lomond, California, the Hill Guitar Co. operates under the guidance of luthier Kenny Hill, who has been building classical guitars since 1972. The company’s high-end classical guitars are highly regarded by serious classical players, but Hill also consults with Córdoba Guitars and has developed his own line of more affordable instruments that are built in China and sold under the New World Guitars name.</div>
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Our review guitar is a Fingerstyle-C model from the New World Players series. It has a 1<span class="frac"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></sup>⁄<sub><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></sub></span>-inch nut width and cutaway but has the overall look and rich, warm tone of a traditional classical guitar and is built with conventional classical construction techniques like fan bracing and a Spanish-foot neck joint. The high gloss finish, along with the dark cedar top, rich Indian rosewood back and sides, and understated look of the purfling and three-ringed rosette pattern creates an air of elegance.</div>
Our Fingerstyle-C came equipped with an optional L.R. Baggs Anthem SL Classical electronics package, which includes an undersaddle pickup, microphone, and onboard preamp with a crossover circuit (<a href="http://acousticguitar.com/article/default.aspx?articleid=25551">click here for our review of the Anthem system</a>). In contrast to other guitars in this article, the Anthem does not have controls in the side of the guitar (its volume control installs inside the soundhole).<br />Both acoustically and amplified, the Hill Fingerstyle-C delivers the full-bodied tone one expects from a classical guitar, with a warm resonant midrange. The guitar is quite responsive and produces plenty of volume when played hard. I appreciated the combination of the very playable neck and warm traditional tone. I was happy with the sound of traditional classical pieces as well as jazz and Latin tunes, and the guitar’s plugged-in sound was warm, full, and surprisingly feedback resistant. Fiore commented on the Fingerstyle- C’s dark tone and spent a lot of time exploring single-note melodies in the bass, as well as the wide range of tones created by varying his pickinghand position.<br /><div style="border-top: #ccc 1px dotted; width: 580px;">
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Anthem SL Classical pickup.<br />
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<strong>SPECS</strong>: Solid cedar top. Solid Indian rosewood back and sides. 12-fret mahogany neck with Spanish-foot neck joint. Venetian cutaway. Ebony fingerboard. Rosewood bridge. Bone nut and saddle. 650-mm (25.59-inch) scale. 1<span class="frac"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></sup>⁄<sub><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></sub></span>-inch nut width. 2<span class="frac"><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></sup>⁄<sub><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></sub></span>-inch string spacing at the saddle. L.R. Baggs Anthem SL Classical electronics. D’Addario Pro Arte strings. Made in China. Left-handed version available without a cutaway.<br />
<strong>PRICE</strong>: $1,995 ($1,795 without electronics).<br />
<strong>MAKER</strong>: Hill Guitar Co.: (800) 262-8858; <a href="http://neworldguitar.com/" target="_blank">neworldguitar.com</a>.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584509014641040648.post-73353881043144805162012-02-17T10:23:00.000-08:002012-02-17T11:05:49.176-08:00Congratulations Antonio Lourenco of Aantone's Music. The winner of our New World Estudio Guitar giveaway!<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktJjw454a9V2FRruo-ySzsfScUICMi2WIqczLbT3B4IzBUVjBev-9FhBBHfhZ_L0E5Tqhyphenhyphen59vjavg2x1fHI_FPxB1QK5ZB4PpxPt1C0q-VO8AUzca9v-pmxpD2M6-VXKfiD3Eg33ZdgU/s1600/antonio+w+estudio.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 358px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709067295412184578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktJjw454a9V2FRruo-ySzsfScUICMi2WIqczLbT3B4IzBUVjBev-9FhBBHfhZ_L0E5Tqhyphenhyphen59vjavg2x1fHI_FPxB1QK5ZB4PpxPt1C0q-VO8AUzca9v-pmxpD2M6-VXKfiD3Eg33ZdgU/s400/antonio+w+estudio.jpg" /></a> We sure enjoyed our visit with Antonio when he came to the showroom to pick up his <strong>New World Estudio Model </strong>guitar.</div><br /><br /><div>Antonio was the winner of this guitar from a drawing we held at NAMM this year, promoting our line of affordably priced, handcrafted New World Guitars.</div><br /><br /><div>Antonio, you can no longer say you've "never won anything"! </div><br /><br /><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0