A scrapbook of Music, Video and Pictures with some interesting or fun stuff.
S0ar Valley Music
Back around 1997 I was paid a visit by a customer looking to commission a harp. Turns out he was the director of soar valley music, a U.K distribution company, mainly dealing with percussion. It was at this meeting we first put forward the idea of building a range of unique design mandolin family instruments. At that time mandolins were fairly rare in music shops and a lot of what there was, was of poor quality. They were to be designed to play and sound great without making a big hole in your pocket.
Brendan O'Regan
1998 Brendan O'Regan saw one of my instruments in a shop window in Ireland . At the time he was with Martin Stephenson, who I had met since moving to the highlands . He gave him my number and I sent him an instrument. I was delighted to hear it featured on this track with Sharon Shannon, John prine and Mary Staunton.
LIVING TRADITION
A picture of myself taken in 1998 for an article written by Steve McGrail in The Living Tradition. I'm working from my fathers workshop in Alness in the Scottish highlands. I was later to find a workshop at the edge of town in Inverness.
Yorkshire Living
I moved to West Yorkshire in 2006 where I started work with The music room. I felt quite welcome when Yorkshire living published an article.
Weissenborn
A few years back I met Ed Greenfield, director at Anderwood guitars. His wish was to make exacting replicas of 1927 era Weissenborns. Here is Ed and I with a workshop article in the 400th edition of Guitarist magazine.
Weissenborn reviews.
There were some really nice reviews for the Anderwood authentic Weissenborn. Guitarist mag gave us 9/10 and listed us in gear of the year. There was also a really nice article in Acoustic mag.
