tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123372245943575852024-03-13T05:07:28.188-07:00Hill Guitar Co.Get the latest news on all things Hill Guitar!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-37184631430987218172022-03-31T14:59:00.001-07:002022-04-05T12:36:44.334-07:00New Editions: Kenny Hill Guitar Compositions<p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">I’m happy to announce the publications of 3 new editions of my own compositions for guitar, written over the past two years: </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lost and Found</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Stolen Moments Suite</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Songs from Home</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">. The stay-at-home era and travel hiatus gave me the opportunity to dig into composing in the way I had long wanted to, but had been procrastinating for too many years.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These three publications each have 3 related pieces and are beautifully laid out by Eric Dussault of Productions d’Oz in Quebec. There are already video performances of some of them on YouTube and I’m working on getting them all recorded by various artists, myself included. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSjSk6BExwFTn6kQq5taCKifInbcCPd4ioj_ZtIdSysp2QaVb4dIAMRwiNvgsUuJLuRnbSblBDpElzzH-JnyC_iwne5L1PGX32zJJ294-OMez6F31wcuMhuS6SoDaR7nyji3yeEZkTnBAluXm_ReRvhNl9uXkG568Ekt9MXzIsmXzc2k1-ZZp-Pu3ssA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSjSk6BExwFTn6kQq5taCKifInbcCPd4ioj_ZtIdSysp2QaVb4dIAMRwiNvgsUuJLuRnbSblBDpElzzH-JnyC_iwne5L1PGX32zJJ294-OMez6F31wcuMhuS6SoDaR7nyji3yeEZkTnBAluXm_ReRvhNl9uXkG568Ekt9MXzIsmXzc2k1-ZZp-Pu3ssA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It’s been exciting, a bit scary but satisfying to get these musical ideas down and playing, something I’ve wanted to do for so many years. It took a pandemic to get my attention and motivation. I still have many many ideas itching to come out, and now with this effort in print I can get back to composing, and hopefully much more music to come. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I know it seems unlikely to build nice guitars AND compose nice music, but actually I find they feed each other, so why not? I want to believe that if you can think it, you can do it.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoL7wdjx_UDCkabu9wJSRAXTx6KJNs8KWgLDai3j_sN91rzx8w8GjYQcD4DgErCnFrKdWEH0DZHZcyHKH5nonQ-UsJom8KDxOmqpFS6WBicH7uX3-4nrkiOiba68TGsO_auIgpmCxAtWvtg3YuwRda0evLszXBFlwI9L60Snd65wQbpd7QYtaeHhAoqg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoL7wdjx_UDCkabu9wJSRAXTx6KJNs8KWgLDai3j_sN91rzx8w8GjYQcD4DgErCnFrKdWEH0DZHZcyHKH5nonQ-UsJom8KDxOmqpFS6WBicH7uX3-4nrkiOiba68TGsO_auIgpmCxAtWvtg3YuwRda0evLszXBFlwI9L60Snd65wQbpd7QYtaeHhAoqg=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’m grateful to Eric Dussault for putting up with my learning curve about publishing, and for doing such a beautiful job of engraving and putting together the music books, I couldn’t ask for more. I’m also grateful to the people around me putting up with my temperament, particularly my wife Roberta and my manager Maggie Kling, and to the musicians who have encouraged this work — Phil Collins, Stephen Goss, Giacomo Fiore, John Dearman, Bill Kanengiser, Richard Patterson, Guy Cantwell, David Tannenbaum, Ron Friedman, Terrence Farrell, Dean Kamei, Gretchen Menn, Adam Perlmutter and all of the folks in Zoom classes and open mics who have put up with listening to my works in progress. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And I'm especially grateful to Johannes Moller who was the first guitarist to look at my music seriously. Johannes is an amazing, inspiring composer and guitarist, and he did me the honor of learning and performing and recording some of my earlier pieces. His support and appreciation helped me find the courage and confidence to do more, and to realize the joy of creating music and sharing it with the public.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPiS3n9nC_vZRB9YsBNej9K-OeynAyf_OrN0xZ_ODqekd-Xqp5ptGVo3YH94Mods-f7twbfNonVccWC7TlsSFFvRdC83WK_Cv6FulIptglSGJcvSDGKrB3tT3QpZg_bPdxGhjhFesQDzQEWUbfH8XB6zgn7LhFw84-6ZLftNkHbyo-hRS_Oyb9NjIwmw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1182" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPiS3n9nC_vZRB9YsBNej9K-OeynAyf_OrN0xZ_ODqekd-Xqp5ptGVo3YH94Mods-f7twbfNonVccWC7TlsSFFvRdC83WK_Cv6FulIptglSGJcvSDGKrB3tT3QpZg_bPdxGhjhFesQDzQEWUbfH8XB6zgn7LhFw84-6ZLftNkHbyo-hRS_Oyb9NjIwmw=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These three music books are available from Hill Guitar for $15.00 each plus shipping, and also as PDF with no shipping cost. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;">Thanks for your interest!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;">Kenny Hill</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;">March 2022</div>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-56855653590124429512021-11-02T11:00:00.005-07:002021-11-02T11:02:25.889-07:00HILL GUITAR EXHIBITING IN SAN DIEGO THIS WEEKEND, NOV. 6 & 7<p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qX1JG_DngSo/YYF8oITsrrI/AAAAAAAANVo/_Of2iqJDVGMJRk_lc9LiX6bdSGcvcj0mACLcBGAsYHQ/s1480/guitar-lovers-festival-header-logo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qX1JG_DngSo/YYF8oITsrrI/AAAAAAAANVo/_Of2iqJDVGMJRk_lc9LiX6bdSGcvcj0mACLcBGAsYHQ/w379-h400/guitar-lovers-festival-header-logo.jpeg" width="379" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium;">This coming weekend is the first ever Headstock guitar makers festival in San Diego at the Liberty Station Conference Center Saturday 12 -8pm and Sunday 10 - 5pm. Kenny Hill will be there to exhibit Hill Guitars, including the Legacy Model concert guitars and the new Companion Model travel guitars.</span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kenny will also be playing a music showcase performance of original guitar pieces written recently, all from this year. That performance will be at 2:00 on Saturday. For Kenny this is the first on-stage performance in over two years, and the the first public performance of most of this music.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">For more information look at the Headstock website </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">https://guitarloversfestival.com/</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> or call us here at the office. 831-336-9317.</span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">See you there!</span></div></span>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-64710977072998191582021-01-05T12:48:00.000-08:002021-01-05T12:48:10.211-08:00New Composition 'Twilight' by Kenny Hill<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last 3 months I’ve been writing this piece Twilight, usually in the wee morning hours, before I get to work at guitar making. The piece was just recently completed, at least I‘ve declared it so. It’s tricky knowing when to quit.</span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During this time I’ve also been taking an online composition course with my friend Johannes M</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">öller. This course is a live Zoom meeting between composers around the world, led by Johannes. It’s a very interesting thing. Johannes is in Sweden these days, and there are student participants in Romania, Germany, Mexico City, South Africa, California, Australia, China, Bangladesh and India — all live on screen. The only downside is that for me it happens at 5:00AM on Sunday morning. The upside is that I’m usually up at that time working on music anyway.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the more significant upside is that I get to meet weekly with all of these really talented people around the world. The quality and beauty of what each person is doing is very good, surprising and varied. It’s a unique opportunity and really a whole new way of learning and getting together. There is no scenario that all of these talented people would be together in person, and it is stimulating and inspiring to have these online relationships.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to thank Johannes Moller for conceiving this and making it happen. He has been a most supportive and helpful teacher, and everyone who takes this class gets a lot out of it. If you are interested in guitar composing you should look into it on his social media. It has been very good for me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now, beyond that, Johannes recently made a beautiful video recording of this piece Twilight. I’m really proud to have it played so eloquently by such a masterful player and composer and friend. It's deeply gratifying. I’m delighted to share the recording here. The sheet music is available from me as PDF and will be in book form very soon. I hope you like it!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Kenny Hill</b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>January 2021</b></div><div style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7QuZERfRJt8/X_S1ANDvNTI/AAAAAAAAGiM/5rv7SbUuJew8las5TwrhZbdGnKMvVWIhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2646/128554756_483606585947920_7804985164849554409_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="2646" height="288" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7QuZERfRJt8/X_S1ANDvNTI/AAAAAAAAGiM/5rv7SbUuJew8las5TwrhZbdGnKMvVWIhwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h288/128554756_483606585947920_7804985164849554409_n.jpg" title="Photography by Simon Hill" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photography by Simon Hill</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><u><div style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div>Program Notes</u></b></div></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: small;">Over the past three seasons I've spent more time alone, and often sitting outdoors in the twilight of the end of daylight, and of the dawn. My back yard is a lovely nature environment hosting all sorts of plants and birds and animals passing through. At any moment there is a changing texture of sounds from the sky, the trees, the bushes, the ground, a layering both random and expectant — a poetry, or a sonata. This changes with the weather, the length of the days, the wind, with the rolling population and life cycle of critters. These nature songs are most animated as the day is coming and when the day is going. There’s a language, tales of drama and peace, a music that nature is playing without any concern for our human stories of hopes and anxieties. This is somehow reassuring amid tension and seeming chaos swirling around.</div><div style="font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: small;">Twilight the music is just a mood piece suggesting some of the comings and goings, the overlays and counterpoints of sounds outside my home. This piece is not too difficult to play, except maybe the passage beginning with measure 93. There is an annoying reach at the end of measure 97, but with practice it is do-able. Throughout this section it takes some extra attention to suppress the ringing of the D natural from the open fourth string. That can be intrusive. For a time I kept thinking that noise was my cell phone vibrating on the table. It just needs some strategic open-string damping.</div><div style="font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/600035536/videos/10164557370005537/" target="_blank">Watch Johannes Möller 'Twilight' Performance Here</a></u></b></span></div></span></span></div>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-56914412568585090682020-11-20T14:23:00.001-08:002020-11-20T14:23:55.146-08:00'Twilight' Composition Premiering with Johannes Moller!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-87wP7nQdR9Q/X7gLqqYW-sI/AAAAAAAAGek/mEym9hc0jNQXnie_hDHNkOuNeJgSrSsSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s548/unnamed%2B%252821%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="548" height="324" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-87wP7nQdR9Q/X7gLqqYW-sI/AAAAAAAAGek/mEym9hc0jNQXnie_hDHNkOuNeJgSrSsSQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h324/unnamed%2B%252821%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: small;">I just finished a new composition for guitar called Twilight. I’ve been working on it steadily over the last few weeks, and now it is done. The engraving is also done just this morning so I will be able to publish it soon. </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">This Sunday November 22nd Johannes Moller is planning to play the debut performance on his live stream <b>“See you on Sunday” on Facebook at 11:00 am PST</b>. Johannes has been doing this live stream program since early lockdown, playing his own music, his concert repertoire and also sometimes music from other current composers. It is reaching a lot of people in a new way.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> Johannes has also been running a zoom composition course for a while now that I am participating in, along with several other guitar composers from literally around the world: Sweden, Germany, California, Mexico, Bangladesh, Australia, China and more. Because it’s a live class meeting the time zones are crazy, and while Johannes is in his Sunday afternoon I’m there at 5:00AM Sunday morning and the guys in Australia are attending sometime around midnight. This has been a rewarding community to be a part of. If you’re curious about writing guitar music check it out. It has been a very good experience for me.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I just introduced this piece Twilight to the class two weeks ago, but Johannes is willing to play it in public on Sunday. He’s good, I’m sure he can do it. I haven’t heard it except for my own playing, so this seems very, very cool.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Kenny Hill</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">November 2020</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/johannes.moller.370">Johannes Facebook Link</a></span></div>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-7333819247494960072020-07-31T12:16:00.000-07:002020-07-31T12:16:45.273-07:00 "See You On Sundays" August 9th with Johannes Möller<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3KnvOBzCmDg/XyRtYG2q4eI/AAAAAAAAGWY/cQXjL-wyq_waTGKaITtsFvaLUwV3f3mPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s650/see%2Byou%2Bon%2Bsundays%2Bgraphic%2B%2B%25282%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="550" height="410" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3KnvOBzCmDg/XyRtYG2q4eI/AAAAAAAAGWY/cQXjL-wyq_waTGKaITtsFvaLUwV3f3mPQCLcBGAsYHQ/w347-h410/see%2Byou%2Bon%2Bsundays%2Bgraphic%2B%2B%25282%2529.png" width="347" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello Friends.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">My good friend and cohort Johannes M<span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">ö</span>ller is now hosting a weekly live stream on Sundays at 11:00 AM Pacific time on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Johannes is an extraordinary composer and concert guitarist and he’s broadcasting from his home in Holland. He is featuring his own music as well as spotlighting other composers and generally sharing music with the community of guitarists around the world. This is an interesting adaptation to our current lifestyle, with musicians and particularly concert artists finding ways to continue to be active and relevant while concerts and gatherings are down. I think this is very interesting, and I think we are learning a new way to share community that will endure even beyond our current isolation's.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">Of special interest to me is that on August 9th Johannes is going to feature some of my own compositions. I know, I’m supposed to be a guitar maker, not a composer. Well I’m old enough now to do whatever I want, and I delight in doing both. One of the messages coming out of this evolving online society is that music is for everyone, and that creativity is where you find it. We don’t have to wait for permission or authority to break new ground. I like that, I live that.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">Please check out Johannes M<span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">ö</span>ller’s live stream See You On Sundays and in particular tune in on August 9th to hear him play some of my music. I’m honored to be a part of this.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">Look for this live stream on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/johannesmollerguitar/" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">https://www.facebook.com/johannesmollerguitar/</a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">Kenny Hill</div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;">August, 2020</div></span></div>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-59122934821775652072020-07-08T15:30:00.004-07:002020-12-21T13:00:54.272-08:00Used/B-stock Guitar Sale!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Included is a list of some of the guitars that I have already gone over. These are all New World guitars at the moment, thought there are some Hill Guitars that will come out later. They are priced individually, and in cases where there is some cosmetic issue, we can send you detail photos to help think about it. As used instruments there is no implied warranty, but I try to have them in the best condition before they leave here. If you're not satisfied with the instrument when you receive it you may return it within five days, paying only the round trip shipping.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So many of us are still spending a lot of time at home, and guitar is a real comfort and distraction of the best kind. I hope some of these instruments can boost the quality of life these days and going forward. I’m still fully in love with the guitar and the music, I get as much stimulation and satisfaction from it as ever, actually even more.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">— P640S, 2020</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Used for Arthur Dente's east coast tour in January/February 2020. Good condition. It has strap buttons.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">— P650S Cutaway 2016</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$1,400.00</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">Used, good condition</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">— P650C 2017</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$1,400.00</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">Used good condition. Small irregularity in the finish</span><br />
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<strike><span style="text-align: start;">— E45C, 2018</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$495.00</span><br />
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<strike><span style="text-align: start;">— P640C FS, 2018</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$1,400.00</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">Used Fingerstyle, very slight play wear. 48mm nut, cutaway, 16” radius fingerboard.</span></strike><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">— Player Series Flamenco, 2017</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">650 scale, solid Spanish cypress. Clear tap plates.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">— P650C, 2020</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Small repaired wood checks, lower back near tail block.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><strike>Repaired top crack near center seam.</strike></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">—P650C 2019</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$1,000.00</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">bridge re-glued, solid, but visible chip at front of bridge under the strings.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">— P640S 2019</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$1,200.00</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">— Used, slight play wear.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">—P650S 2017,</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">— P650C 2017</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$,1200.00</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">— P650S 2020</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$1,500.00</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">It has highly figured burl pattern in the rosewood back, ornate, structurally sound.</span><br />
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<strike><span style="text-align: start;">—P628C 2019</span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;">$1,400.00</span><br />
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</span>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-31112706444360579732020-05-22T11:54:00.001-07:002020-11-30T10:32:49.918-08:00Watch & Download "Solitaire" by Kenny Hill<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">In March 2020 here in California we slid into quarantine like so much of the world. At first it just meant more binge watching and cooking at home, but after a couple of weeks of that I decided to use some of the time to compose something. Solitaire was that first piece. It’s a stylistic change from other music I’ve been writing recently, calmer and more transparent. As difficult and tragic as this lock down has been for so many, there is also a sense of peace and reflection in stepping out of the rat race for a while. I’m fortunate to be at a stage in life where inspiration and letting-go hover more or less in balance. And that’s good enough for now.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">This is dedicated to my wife Roberta who’s strength, humor and goodness is there always, in good times and in bad. I’m grateful for the opportunity to make music, which can relieve and purify out of nowhere, and not do any harm at all.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Solitaire is really just a homemade folk song. It’s simple, though not exactly easy. The harmonics require care both in the left hand and the right. They’re sweet when it comes out right.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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As we continue to live this new status quo I want to share a new guitar piece “Solitaire” that came out of our isolation. It’s dedicated to my dear wife Roberta who has been especially strong these days. Please feel free to download it and play it. I’ll publish it later, but for now it’s good to just get it up and out of the house.</div>
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We at Hill Guitar are continuing to offer our New World Guitars at the "Play From Home" 20% discount while things are so limited. Thankfully our work is by nature socially distanced so we feel confident sharing our wonderful guitars by shipping, and can even disinfect instruments before they go into the package.</div>
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In our custom shop are also able to make some truly unique guitars for individuals, somehow our imagination seems released in all this. We are still able to offer 10% discount on select Hill Guitars in inventory, please feel free to inquire about what you might be interested in.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last December at the Santa Cruz Guitar Christmas party I ran into multi-talented Sandor Nagyszalanczy and he offered his facilities to do some audio </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">video</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> project. I haven’t really done any recording in a very long time, but what the heck, let’s try it. It’s challenging, hard to play well on a good day, let alone on camera. And unnerving to see how much I have become my father. Sandor was great to work with and very supportive, and I thank him for his work. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stolen Moments represents a comeback to composing music for my lifetime instrument, the classical guitar. While I have been actively playing for over 50 years and building guitars for almost as long, there has been a nagging instinct to compositionally explore the instrument in my own way. I’ve been procrastinating so long until, at this stage of life, if not now, when? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The title refers to an interview I did with Santa Cruz legacy composer Lou Harrison. I asked him how he manages his prolific output, where does he find the time? His response was “Oh there's never time, I just write in stolen moments.” This has been helpful wisdom for me getting deeper into composing. There is a double meaning as well. I asked the great guitarist composer Johannes M</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ö</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ller if there was any of his contemporaries whose music he would play in his programs and he said “No, no, if I hear something I like I just steal it.” Well I stole the tuning system for this piece from Johannes’ composition “A Star in the Sky, a Universe Within.” Johannes has been a great inspiration and supporter for me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently I was looking through drawers of sheet music in my office and I came across a big stash of manuscripts I had written between 1974 and 1979. I was vaguely aware they were there, but I was stunned at how much there was. It was all jumbled up, pages mixed up or missing and smelled like a mummy. There are at least 15 compositions. Then nothing until 2010. Then nothing again until 2018. There have always been ideas, but not follow through. It’s curious how related in style that 4 decades old music is to what I come up with now. The main difference is that I’m a little better editor and architect now, but the feelings are pretty much the same. Currently I’m working on several pieces in various stages of progress and trying to remember Lou's advice and take advantage of the “stolen moments” to start — and finish the new pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The playing trick with Stolen Moments is that it uses a capo on the first 5 strings at the 4th fret, with the 6th string unfretted. This produces an elfin, wind chime like upper resonance and a nice low bass note. The score is notated in the key of C, even though the actual pitches are key of E. The open 6th string is treated as a low C. The piece is in 4/4 but for much of the piece the rhythmic count is grouped 5,5,6 which keeps the recurring arpeggios swaying a little off balance.</span><br />
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Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-39875507940850743342019-04-26T12:15:00.001-07:002019-04-26T12:15:52.769-07:00Giacomo Fiore Performs "Stolen Moments"<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sow2OsYP1tw/XMNLNKKgPnI/AAAAAAAAF5w/tC-KcgQv0Ak9c59qAjAJz2XY1KE9pQc1QCLcBGAs/s1600/GIACOMO%2BFIORE%2B3%2B%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="816" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sow2OsYP1tw/XMNLNKKgPnI/AAAAAAAAF5w/tC-KcgQv0Ak9c59qAjAJz2XY1KE9pQc1QCLcBGAs/s640/GIACOMO%2BFIORE%2B3%2B%25281%2529.png" width="488" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 30th Giacomo Fiore performed the world premiere of my recent guitar composition “Stolen Moments”or the New Music Works Night Of the Living Composer concert at Cabrillo College. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Giacomo only had the score for a few short months and he really got the piece, including playing from memory. He did it beautifully! I was thrilled to hear someone else playing it, and so well! I loved listening to it from the audience. I am proud of Giacomo and proud of the piece. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry Phillips recorded the whole concert and it sounds quite good. Please take a listen to this clip. It comes with good timing because I also just completed the sheet music for Stolen Moments, now available for publication. I’ve got more pieces in the works and we’ll be releasing them over the next few months. This is something I’ve wanted to do for some time and now, finally, there’s some momentum. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Philip Collins is the artist director of New Music Works and a profound supporter of living composers, as well as a fine and tireless composer himself. His recent two piano piece was on that program, amazing. I’m grateful to be included in this program. I don’t know how he does it all. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am stunned and saddened at the news of Robert Ruck passing away. Of all the people in this guitar business he is the most unexpected; he was one of the strongest, healthiest most self aware and balanced people I know. It’s hard to believe, hard to accept, and yet, there it is. Death is such a fact of life now. I know, it’s alway been there, but it is really catching up.</span></div>
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Robert was already a legend when I met him in the early 1990s, famous for his fine guitars, amazing skills and prolific output. He was a role model and an inspiration. He was generous with is thoughts and his time, his tremendous knowledge and work abilities. And he was a bit mysterious. Periodically he would pack up his workshop and family and move somewhere completely different, lock stock and barrel. When I met him he was in Washington, near Seattle, and he later moved to Hawaii, then to Oregon and then to Wisconsin. I was introduced to Robert by my good friend and colleague Jerry Roberts, who came of age with him as young guitar students in Florida and remained close from then all through until now. Jerry has probably played and sold more Ruck guitars than anyone besides Ruck himself and has kept in steady contact with him until recently. Jerry actually arranged a very interesting liscensing deal between Ruck and my guitar company to make a special model of guitar which he designed for us to produce and for Jerry to sell. The design was beautiful, creative and the guitars were wonderful. We did that for about 10 years and those guitars are still loved and sought after. It was this model that first introduced me to the idea of sound ports, that was Robert Ruck’s idea. The curious thing was that at the time of those first drawings Ruck hadn’t actually done it himself. I was so excited and honored to get this project with him that I made the first prototype very quickly, about a week, and when I drilled those holes in the upper shoulders of that guitar and heard the difference, it was a major revelation. I actually called him up in Washington and said “Bob, this is a wonderful idea of yours — you should try it”. And he did, though I’m not sure he was as constant with ports as I have been. It was a bold idea in 1998, but now it has caught on, and some variation of ports is very common among guitar makers, old and young. </div>
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The last time I saw Bob Ruck was in Denver in 2016 when he was there to receive his lifetime achievement award at the GFA festival. It was wonderful to hang out with him and his wife and daughter, a reunion of sorts, and we both said “this is really nice, we need to keep in touch, maybe build some more of those guitars”. He was on the verge of another of his inscrutable moves, from Oregon to Wisconsin. We didn’t keep our pledge, and that was the last time we spoke. You never know. I’m very, very sorry he’s gone.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Some people have a problem with guitar intonation. I don’t mean just the struggle to get the 6 strings in tune with each other, I mean the accuracy of the the notes and intervals from fret to fret, string to string. Guitars have been around for quite a while now and guitar players have learned to live with it, but an accurate measurement of the pitches and harmonies would definitely show up compromises and discrepancies. For most of my life I’ve been perfectly content with the idiosyncrasies of the guitar fingerboard, and anyway I wasn’t aware of any other choices. That is, until now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The True Temperament fretting system is a special development by Anders Thidell from Sweden. Several years ago my good friend Johannes Moller gave me a TT fretboard and frets that had been passed to him by the manufacturer. Johannes is also Swedish and a very prominent guitarist and composer and a clever and forward thinking fellow. I guess he figured I have tried a lot of progressive and innovative and weird things over the years, so why not give it a shot?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That first TT fingerboard and frets sat around in my shop for at least two years until I finally built a guitar with it on a whim. To be honest, I probably put it off because I thought it was a dead-end idea. I’m certainly very aware of the conundrum of guitar intonation and the compromises we learn to live with, but as a guitar player for over 50 years I’ve accustomed my ears to the reality of guitar intonation and I’m fine with it. In some ways I feel that the quirks and “imperfections” of the guitar are part of what makes it so lovable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, that first TT guitar was really sweet. It was completed just before the Namm show, we took it with us to the show and it sold immediately. I barely had a chance to get acquainted. So with that tease I worked around trying to acquire more TT fretboards. It took quite a while to make a good connection with True Temperament but eventually I did get some more of these fingerboards and last year I made another similar guitar, which turned out just as sweet. Both of those guitars were Performance Model 650 scale, both spruce double top and both really delicious. Quite a few professional players tried out the second one and used it in performances, and everyone agreed there is something magical about it. So after these glimpses of this magic I decided to build one for myself. This way I could live with it in my daily routine of guitar stuff, practicing, performing, studying new pieces etc. I’ve gotten hooked on my Ergonomic designed Signature guitar, so that’s what I wanted, a Signature, Ergonomic, True Temperament cedar top with a Barbera pickup, all the bells and whistles. We made one, and I love it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve been playing this guitar for about 6 months now. I suppose I now have more experience with True Temperament on classical guitar than anyone. Over the years I’ve been willing to try many modern and sometimes controversial things in guitar innovation, and this one I was skeptical about. Because it’s so unusual and provocative looking, I kind of didn’t want it to be so good. But it is.</span><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AB95jK2c1tw/WkVjlki_1-I/AAAAAAAAFBM/E6Zzg6x4Ie0k0xqibSOgvBnKpP0WvAiuACLcBGAs/s1600/DSC_0114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AB95jK2c1tw/WkVjlki_1-I/AAAAAAAAFBM/E6Zzg6x4Ie0k0xqibSOgvBnKpP0WvAiuACLcBGAs/s400/DSC_0114.jpg" width="266" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don’t fully understand what’s going on with it, or the math and engineering that went into it’s invention. I do understand that although the fret position formula may be mathematically correct, the differences in the behavior of the individual strings because of their materials and design introduce a whole set of variables. And I understand that each individual note on the fingerboard is defined by it’s own beat-per-second frequency that can be measured, and if each note on each string were to have it’s own little fret, it might tune up more like a keyboard, but it would be pretty darn complicated. These curvy frets accomplish something like that in a dramatic but fairly practical way. I’ve read the FAQs TT has published, and I’ve thought about it a lot as I listen to it. I have a pretty good ear and can tune a guitar reliably and quickly. That’s not an issue. What I experience with the TT guitar is not so much a dramatic difference in tuning, but rather a lovely fresh purity to the sound, like extra fresh air and crystal clean water. It seems the various intervals are in greater harmony with each other, and the overall resonance is at greater peace and vitality. As I said, I’m not deeply bothered by the intonation of a traditional fretboard, but I am very excited about the overall countenance of the sound that comes out of my True Temperament guitar. This is not a mode, or a different twelve note temperament — it’s good in all keys, it sounds good all the way through my repertoire. And in spite of the wacky visuals it’s not hard to play for the left hand, there is no adapting of technique, that’s just not a problem.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frankly the only downside to it is that it looks so unusual and provocative. It’s eye catching in a woozy way and I wind up having to try to explain it to people all the time. Since I am interested in it myself, I don’t mind talking about it, it helps me think about it and grow into some kind of broader understanding. But until it is much more common, it will be a topic of chit chat with customers and at any gigs that I play for a long time to come.</span><br />
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A performance of breathtaking range, from dazzling bravura to autumnal intimacy.</h5>
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A solo recital by Guitarist Johannes Möller</h3>
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Swedish-born guitarist and composer, Johannes Möller brings electrifying virtuosity and extraordinary worldliness to Santa Cruz! Chinese, North Indian, and Western music traditions are encompassed in a program of mercurial plucks, strums and drumming. A concert that encompasses musical styles and techniques of planetary scope. It will be a truly an Intimate evening, while also ranging in temperament from unheard of gentility to fearsome fortissimos.</div>
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Möller will perform new works of his own, including <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Night Flame,</em></strong> a North Indian-inspired work for guitar and tabla drums, featuring percussionist, Neel Agrawal. Adaptations of traditional Chinese music (<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chinese Songs</em></strong>) and original works inspired by the genre (<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moonlit Night on Spring River</em></strong>) will also be featured. The program will further include a piece for solo guitar that Kenny Hill composed in memory of his father, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There and Gone.</em></strong></div>
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Möller is an international phenomenon, a winner of innumerable prizes (including First Place in the GFA International Competition in 2010) but more importantly, a creator of glistening new guises for the guitar.</div>
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His recitals span tremendous range and remind us of how diverse the guitar can be.</div>
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Special Guests: Guitarists Philip Collins and Jay Arms perform Madagascan tube harp music</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I just got back from the Santa Barbara Guitar Acoustic Instrument Celebration. This was the second year. It was fun last year, and way more classy and well done this year. I hope it continues on and we can do it again and again. Thanks to Kevin and his crew for making it happen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Actually I have a special point of view here. I made my first guitar in Santa Barbara in the 1970’s, so being in Santa Barbara was very nostalgic: In 1972 I was learning to play guitar, make guitars, write music, body surf, hike those mysterious mountains above the town. These were golden years. I was a skinny barefoot kid living the life, trying to avoid getting a job. I had started this sweet little guitar repair shop called Wooden Music, and I was equally focused on classical guitar, the beach, the mountain trails, the music, getting stoned, and the girls.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This festival was housed right on the main beach in the Fess Parker Doubletree Hotel. There is an irony here because the last year that I was living in Santa Barbara there was a strong political battle about what to do with the undeveloped beachfront land — make it into a park — or make it into a lucrative tourist hotel. In 1976 something — to the extent that I was paying attention — I was all about the park. And now in 2017 I was exhibiting and staying at the hotel, quite happily. How the world does turn!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">At the Santa Barbara festival on Saturday night I had some time to kill. The David Lindley concert at the Lobero Theater was at 8:00</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, so I had two hours free time, I went looking for one of the local festival venues in downtown Santa Barbara to get a bite to eat. SoHo. This venue is in a warren of shops downstairs and upstairs on State Street and I decided to just hang out in the bar, the back of the room, a little separate from the music stage.There was a fine acoustic guitar concert performance going on, but I sat in the back, I was the only customer at the bar. I was watching Spanish TV above the bar and my eyes caught the architectural trusses above the TV. It was obviously an old building with brick walls and ancient skylights that had been remodeled many times, and now a a hipster joint, with a young guy tending bar, waiting for the the younger So-Cal crowd to come in later, maybe around midnight</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. I was sitting there by myself, the only person there besides the bartender. The roof trusses struck some chord, I thought I had seen them somewhere, in the fog of memory I realized holy shit, I’ve been here before! In this upstairs building it hit me, this was my first guitar shop! 1972, my first business. Even this very spot, I kissed a girl. More than 40 years ago I was living my life in this exact GPS location, this was my first guitar shop!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I couldn’t help myself, had to share it with somebody, so I blurted it out to the young bartender, “This place was my first guitar shop." He could have said “yeah man, far out” and blown me off, but instead this nice guy listened to my nostalgia, I described the corner of the building, the old windows above the parking lot, and he said “Oh that’s the green room now, wanna see it?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I was stunned, instinctively thought I should demure, but I said heck yeah!. If not now, when? He led me through the pantry and kitchen to the corner room, to the old window looking over the parking lot. It felt smaller than I remembered but not much changed, only the cars were newer. Looking down through the wash of memory, the not forgotten beauties tossing pebbles up to the window so I would open the downstairs door. I couldn’t believe it, my heart exploded, my eyes burst. This was my first guitar shop! Almost 50 years! How did this happen? The privilege of memory was young again. Just for a moment, but wow, what a moment! It felt like the cards of my life were spread out in a brilliant fan from then to now, prescient, nostalgic and current and vital. Adreniline, sentiment and satisfaction all rolled together.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I took a picture. And sorry, I cried. Then I retreated and thought about what I could do with this burst of experience, how to savor it. What luck to be here. I hung out for a while longer talking with this young bartender, nice guy, he has young kids. He is trying to figure out what to do with his own life. He asked how it was in 1974, how I knew what I wanted to do for my whole life, even up to now. He could see I was much older than him. But actually I didn’t know the answer. I felt concerned for him, he sounded confused, and I guess that’s not such an unusual question these days. I’ve never asked it for myself. I wanted to light a fire for him, a fire like I’ve had had since back then. I love young people. I used to be one myself.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">All I could think of to say was to "do whatever it is that you can’t not do.” Again, "Do whatever it is that you cannot - not - do." That impulse isn’t totally reliable, sounds a bit trite, but maybe it’s the best thing we’ve got to go on. It still works for me. I hope that young bartender finds his move. I’m sure grateful for mine.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-40203627059317135452017-08-22T10:41:00.000-07:002017-08-22T10:41:49.595-07:00A Look Back On My Trip To China<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A few days ago I got back from a whirlwind trip to China. I was gone just a little over a week there, just enough time to suffer back-to-back jet lag — first from going, then from coming back. As always, this was an adventure!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">China is a hotbed of growth in the classical guitar world. I’ve been involved there for seventeen years, hard to believe, and I’ve seen so much change. My focus on this trip was multi layered; I’m in the process of introducing my Performance Model guitars into distribution in the Chinese guitar market. That’s just good business. Also I am very interested in seeing the culture of the guitar growing around the world, with China being very fertile ground for this focus. This means getting young people (and their parents) excited about the value of music in their lives. Of course we are also cultivating guitar culture here in USA, and anywhere possible. Also on this trip I was able to connect with Los Angeles Guitar Quartet along their first multi-region tour of China. I recently built a cool 7 string guitar for John Dearman and it was going through it’s shake down, its first on-the-road tour, both a great opportunity to listen to this guitar in concert, and a little nervous test of a new guitar on the road. LAGQ is so iconic and influential everywhere in the world that the enthusiasm around them can’t help but step up the excitement.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And, since I have been involved in international business for some time now, I was especially aware of being an active and conscious American in business, cultural and political worlds outside of our American borders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This was a short trip, but for me poignant. I am proud of cultivating young people being involved with the guitar, especially because guitar has has nurtured my own life in so many ways since I was a little kid. I am proud of how wonderfully influential all styles of guitar have affected people’s listening and playing habits and musical lives. I am proud of the music, art, business and the relationships that have been forged worldwide during my career. I am proud to know the LAGQ and their enduring influence on music and audiences, their enthusiasm for not just the sounds of the guitar, but the range of beauty, history, style and virtuosity that have improved the way we hear music. I’m also very proud of my partners in guitar making, and international endeavors, working our passions and through music, working to make the world a better place.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">China is a different culture, not always easy, but very human. I’m deeply grateful to have shared such a range of culture and personal relationships. I’ve worked there for a long time and I guess I will for more time to come.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There is one long moment that I feel compelled to share — my airport exit from China through Guangzhou airport. Guangzhou is a worldwide hub of international business, manufacturing and a crossroads for things global. I’m lucky, my factory base is just about 30 minutes from the airport. I have been through the GZ airport scores of times, maybe hundreds of times. In each of those long switchback check-in lines you see the recurring faces of people, strangers, as the rope lines move you toward customs or security check points. It’s always interesting to see the families, the individuals, hear the languages, everyone in their own space, moving toward the airplanes and their next connections, next efforts, appointments, challenges, loves. Leaving Guangzhou heading for San Francisco and home I’m guessing there were around 1500 people in line, in groups or alone like me, enduring the process, but everyone in their own head, looking toward the next destination, comfort or ambition. There were Asian, African, Italian, Spanish, Latin American, Middle Eastern, South Asian, the whole world was there. Wives, husbands, kids, grandkids, road warriors, entrepreneurs. And me, a white hair post-middle age American man, shuffling through the line, the only one, anonymous and a bit tired. I definitely didn’t attract any attention, I was the only one. Really. Literally. The only one. I didn’t feel threatened, I simply wasn’t noticed. Everyone were in their own worlds. Mostly younger. I was fine, but I couldn’t help but feel that the world, the bigger world, the global world is moving on. And I was impressed with these people in line, strangers to me, humans, the species, each of these persons on a mission to make something better for themselves, for their families, for their countries, I don’t really know anything about what they’re all up to, but I myself have been pounding this pavement for quite a while, so I can relate. But I felt a bit sad and lonely for my own “group”, who seems to be becoming more isolated, less willing to share with the globe, abdicating leadership, backward thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I don’t want to be political. Personally, I really just love my family, my home, my friends and my work. I’m deeply grateful for all of the experience and quality of life that I have enjoyed. I guess I have a simple protest to our unnerving recent culture bursts of fear, isolation, of keeping “us" in, and ‘them’” out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I just don’t feel that way. There, in that airport line I sensed the roil of humanity, the real churning of the evolution of society. I’m a classic white guy born at the right place at the right time. But I don’t buy it. We are all in this together, and all benefiting by stuff from everywhere. I have to protest this small minded thinking. I just came back from China, but that’s not the point.The point is about the whole world, our neighbors and our strangers, about intelligence and communication, as hard as it can be. It’s about understanding and caring about one another. We are all in this together.</span><br />
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</span>Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-50636711394959819342017-05-12T12:20:00.000-07:002017-05-12T14:52:44.311-07:00Hill Guitar Proudly Sponsors: John Schneider at Lou Harrison Centennial Celebration<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hill Guitar Company is pleased to sponsor guitarist John Schneider as part of the Lou Harrison Centennial concert celebration put together by New Music Works this coming Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Schneider will be playing part of his program using a Hill Performance Model with a special True Temperament fretboard. This is a unique fretting system developed in Sweden. The frets are not straight, they are individually wiggly according to some calculations that make the guitar more ideally in tune. I don’t pretend to understand what is actually going on with the math behind this, but I do know the guitar sounds really wonderful, kind of magical. We’ve done this twice now, with sweet results both times. This is the first time I’ll be hearing it in concert. We have more of these special instruments planned.</span></div>
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John Schneider is a long established musician based in Los Angeles with a strong specialty in modern music, and a lot of experience with varied tuning systems. This True Temperament system is our first venture into this kind of experiment. It’s interesting.I find the results very appealing.</div>
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So we dug into our old notes and molds and jigs and made one for him. We had to reinvent some of it, R&D, and I think it came out quite nice. Matanya specifies a particular tuning, a “Russian” tuning which is dgbdgbd. It has a great resonance in that tuning. Of course, even in some more familiar tuning I’m personally thrown off when it comes to playing a 7 string. Even the addition of just one string requires some serious relearning for me. Still, it sounds wonderful in any tuning.</div>
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And this is cool. We are planning to make another one soon, hoping to get accustomed to it, and making it a regular offering. I know there is a whole group of Brazilian and other jazz players —as well as classical players — that are good with 7 strings. I’m not, but then I still have my 6 string beauties!</div>
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Coincidentally we are also making a very different style of 7 string for John Dearman of LAGQ. This one is even more of a challenge because the seventh string is extended by 2 frets, something developed by Tom Humphrey, Greg Beyers and some other builders. This new guitar is already built and just beginning to be French polished. We’ll see how that turns out in a couple of months. Should be good.</div>
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Scenes from "Princess Ida"</div>
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•<span id="m_8125732805996825855yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484784956366_101129" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Jifan Li, dizi (ancient Chinese bamboo flute) representing AiMusic and Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra OASIS</div>
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•<span id="m_8125732805996825855yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484784956366_101141" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Chamber Music Silicon Valley Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 for piano, flute & cello</div>
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<b>In addition to this staged entertainment, you will also enjoy these lobby artists:</b></div>
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Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-37482562643410892932017-01-16T13:53:00.002-08:002017-01-16T13:53:57.909-08:00NAMM 2017 is Here!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been going to NAMM for many years, but each year brings a different experience, and we are excited to see what 2017 has in store! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will have a variety of Hill Signature's, Performance's and our New World Guitars for you to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kenny, Owen and Maggie will be at the booth so please come by and try out some guitars, there's no better time than NAMM time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are located at our usual booth: <b>Hall E Booth #1516</b></span></div>
Hill Guitar Co.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04796722570182445928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312337224594357585.post-69173875671091970642017-01-13T14:37:00.001-08:002017-01-16T10:34:37.937-08:00Xuefei Yang Concert in Carmel!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As a professional musician, Fei has performed concerts in 40 countries throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and North America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The demand for her music sees Fei keeping a busy international schedule including London's major venues (with several sell-out recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall), and concerts at the world’s most prestigious venues including Philharmonie Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Vienna, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, National Auditorium Madrid, Dvorak Hall Prague, Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center New York, plus the main venues across Asia. Fei gave both the first solo guitar, and first guitar concerto, recitals ever in Beijing's National Centre of Performing Arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In 2003 she performed 54 concerts for the “Night of the Proms” Tour, appearing in Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, to a total audience of over 800,000 people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Fei is regularly invited to perform concertos with leading orchestras. This season sees Fei performing with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, the Hallé Orchestra, China National Philharmonic and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In addition to her solo career, Fei regularly appears in collaborations with other musicians. This season sees her performing chamber music with the Elias String Quartet, giving duo recitals with cellist Jian Wang, collaborating with tenor Ian Bostridge in a recital at London's Wigmore Hall, and with flautist Sir James Galway at the Beijing Music Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">When: April 7th, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Time: 7:30, Doors open at 7:00pm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Where: Hidden Valley Music Center, Carmel, CA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Tickets are $30 General Admission</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">$25 for CGS Members and Student with ID</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Please call Ron Friedman at (831) 375-2486 for tickets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Join Carmel Guitar Society in celebrating the Christmas season at their Christmas Party at McIntyre Vinyards Tasting Room!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When: December 7th</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Time: 6-8pm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">169 Crossroads Blvd. in Carmel, CA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wine and Pizza will be provided!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Bring your guitar and play some Christmas favorites!</b></span></div>
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