Music is only partly about playing music.
Music is an emotional release.
Music makes you feel good.
We're a music shop that's run by people who know the instruments inside and out in a very
intimate way.
Instruments may seem like fully finished products when they leave the factory, but the reality
is they really benefit from some skilled hands setting them up and adjusting them for the
individual player.
The steel string acoustic guitar has enjoyed quite a renaissance since the mid-1990s.
It went through a period of extreme depression in the mid-1980s.
The common thinking was that everybody would just play a synthesizer and you would just
hit the guitar button and then you would play your guitar licks on a keyboard.
It turned out that that was not an accurate prediction of the future and we're very grateful
for that.
Our goal around here is to promote the good feelings that we've gotten from playing music
ourselves.
If we can make more musicians, we'd like to do that.
Helping people evaluate what they want to do with an instrument that they've inherited
is a big part of what I do.
Many times people have dreams that grandfather's guitar is worth tens of thousands of dollars
that it's as valuable as Eric Clapton's guitar or something like that and I have to kind
of talk them down from that gradually.
Many times it's like, oh well if that's all it's worth I may as well get rid of it and
it's like, well no, the real value there is the fact that your grandfather played it.
And you're potentially cutting somebody else in the family in the years to come off from
the experience of being able to play an instrument that was played by someone they never got
to meet.
This is far more than just a job.
It's not an occupation even as I see it, it's a life.
It is my life, my favorite place to be and my guitar generally is here.
So yeah, I'm nuts, but it's that insanity that propels us forward and helps us, again,
work with the instruments to help work with the people to help create more musicians.
And that's what I want, I want to go out doing that.
