COMMENTS AND REVIEWS
COMMENTS AND TESTIMONIALS
Pages of beautiful comments from owners and observers of Wingert Guitars. There are some great stories in here.
Frank Doucette describes the process of the ordering and building.THE FIRST WINGERT HARP GUITAR
NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Sightings:
Stephen Bennett on the second Wingert Harp Guitar
Fran Guidry on his Madagascar rosewood Model E
Philippe Fouquet on his Cambodian rosewood Model E
Doug Young plays with his cocobolo rosewood Model E high strung!
Don Alder Newport Guitar Festival 2010 Sonic Sitka Project
Don Alder Newport Part II on the Klimt
Pete Bradshaw Harp Guitar Demo
Alec Bainter The youngest Wingert player plays a Wingert classical
I am pleased to announce the inclusion of Kathy Wingert Guitars at ProfessionalLuthier.com, a new tool to help guitar buyers. Initially, most of the Luthiers accepted on the site have previously been vetted by one of the 3 major North American Lutherie Festivals – Healdsburg, Montreal, or Miami. In addition to well focused search criteria, the list of luthiers stands out because of the unique backing of the sites creator, LMI (Luthiers Mercantile International, Inc.). To demonstrate its faith in the professionalism of the participants, LMI will cover the cost of repairs necessary due to defects in materials or workmanship should any of the Luthiers listed go out of business – retirement, medical issue, whatever and therefore not be in a position to back the instrument themselves. Admittedly a subjective decision, LMI uses its network of professional associations with luthiers, instructors, buyers and dealers, in addition to information from the luthier, to determine which luthiers will participate. A beta version of the website is currently available at ProfessionalLuthier.com.
Guitar Craft Academy Fall 2009: I have been recruited to help get the fledgling acoustic guitar building program off the ground at Musicians Institute. I am keeping up my usual building schedule, and have committed to three evenings a week.
Newport Festival of Guitars April 16, 17, 18 2010.
Healdsburg Guitar Festival August 2011. Watch here or at the festival site for details.
Premier Guitars, April 2009, Guitar of the Month!
Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine - will be featuring Wingert Guitars in the September 2006 issue's Luthiers Spotlight.
Flatpick Magazine - will feature Wingert Guitars in their September/October 2006 Women in Flatpicking Issue.
LINKS
Jimmi Wingert Inlay and Design
Visit Jimmi's site for the latest in her amazing work. My favorite inlay artist... you bet!
Stephen Bennett - National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion and Master of the Harp Guitar
is the newest member of the Wingert family of players. Stephen is busy playing the instrument and getting ready to record. Until he writes something long and pithy, I only have quotes like, "Wow!" and "It's great!"
Pete Bradshaw
Pete Bradshaw is a welcome inspiration. He plays with fluid, clean, beautiful motion not only of his fingers but in his arrangements for harp guitar.
Pat Kirtley - National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion
"Some guitars play great, some guitars look fabulous, some have a powerful, balanced sound. Some makers, like Kathy Wingert, create guitars with all those qualities at once. Her designs demonstrate the merging of music and visual art executed with flair, fine workmanship, and superb attention to detail"
Steve Kaufman - Three time national flatpicking champion
Check out Steve's CD on CD Baby. This is what he was kind enough to say about my guitars when we met at one of his flatpicking workshops: "Kathy Wingert is a luthier whose craftsmanship can only be equaled by her pride in excellence. She builds a heck of a box."
Cosy Sheridan - Singer/Songwriter
"Kathy Wingert's dreadnought guitars are terrific! I love them! They have a deep, resonant response, they can fingerppick and flatpick, and on top of that they're beautiful pieces of art."
Fran Guidry
Kaleponi is California in Hawaiian language, and the name of Fran's second CD of Slack Key instrumental tunes. Fran is a musical player with a traditional but original style of his own, giving him a devoted following among fans and Hawaiian musicians. Fran was chosen for 2007 to teach Slack Key at the Healdsburg Guitar Festival and put on a lovely Cabaret performance. He demoed for Wingert Guitars as well. Check out some of Fran's performances at You Tube and give him some LOVE!
Jody William Smith on CD Baby
Jody has recorded an amazing album, and I am bursting with pride to have my guitars show up on two-thirds of the cuts. Jody is a superb story teller and picture painter all within the confines of well-crafted songs. Seriously good guitar chops.
Doug Young Acoustic Guitar
Laurel Mill is Doug's first CD of mostly original instrumental tunes, with a few original arrangements. Laurel Mill was nominated for the 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Award in the Solo Guitar category and took 2nd Place. Doug is a great player and a frequent contributor to Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
Philippe Fouquet
Philippe is an exciting player, and I'm honored that he used a Cambodian Wingert E to compete in “Les Revelations Guitarist Acoustic 2006”. Phillipe took fingerstyle laureat. Congratulations, Philippe! See Philippe on Youtube
Lawrence Blatt on CD Baby
Check out ths multi-textured offering of original instrumentals from Lawrence. This wonderful collection features a teeny little Wingert parlor guitar on several cuts that, as usual, seems to not know it's a teeny little parlor guitar. Congratulations, Larry, on a very fine recording.
Svea Norton
MusicalWomen.com, a showcase for women and acoustic music. Come on in and see what's cooking.
Melissa Greener on CD Baby
Melissa plays guitars by my friend Michael Greenfield, but I love Melissa's music anyway! Give it a listen.
Acoustic Guitar Magazine Gearbox Profile
Kathy Wingert
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