A few Luthiers that were at the Woodstock show

Martin Keith Guitar

 Martin Keith is a friend from Woodstock (born and raised there)
Martin Keith Guitars
Saugerties, NY
Look forward to getting to His studio Martin offered to let me work there from time to time, will have to take him up on this.
Besides being a great Luthier, Martin can play his ass off on the bass, at the woodstock Luthiers show I saw and hears him playing with a great band some old Gypsy jazz type music, He was playing an acoustic  stand up bass and was making it look easy.

www.martinkeithguitars.com

Matsuda Harp Guitar

                                                         Michihiro Matsuda
                                                           Matsuda Guitars
                                                              Oakland, CA
                                                    www.matsudaguitars.com
Met Michiro at show I was walking the show and there was this incredible blackened parlor guitar, I had to see and play it, i was hearing him share how he did the top which he used a spruce top and then procedded to use gunpowder under a fire blanket that he then lit up to burn and he did this around six times! He showed me a video of him lighting it up and man it was cool. I wanted to play it but Tim Farrell was going to play it in the listening gallery in a few minutes so i would have to wait to play and see it up close. I heard it played and it was great, I then played it and man if i had 14 grand i might have bought it.
The tuners were so amazing also as you couldnt see the moving parts they were under a metal plate that had Japanese writing engraved into it, I asked him what it said and he said it was all peaceful and happy words. He was one of my fav's at the show

                                                        Erich Solomon
                                                       Solomon Guitars
                                                           Epping, NH
                                               www.solomonguitars.com

I was introduced to Erich by Chris Arkin (Chris owns one of Erich's guitars)
He is such a great guy and when I mentioned Michiro he asked di he show you the harp guitar and i said no . He then said come with me and we went back to Michiro's booth and Erich asked him to show me the harp guitar and more.
Erich's guitars are so beautiful and I loved the way they play. Hope to see him soon.

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