Hill Guitar Co.

GUITARBENCH MAGAZINE ISSUE 6 PAGE 46

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T H E I N T E R V I E W:

by Terrence Tan

Thanks for taking the time to speak to us,
Kenny. I was wondering how you got started in
lutherie?

In around 1971 a friend of mine had a small guitar shop in Portland Oregon, and one day the guitar repairman went to lunch and didn’t come back. He went to study meditation or something. I wasn’t working at the time and my friend just
said “Oh you can do it”, and gave me the job. So I just began doing repairs, doing my best to figure out ways of accomplishing results. There were very few books or suppliers at the time, so I just had to use my own imagination.
I started learning to play classical guitar at about the same time, learning Bach on an old Manuel de la Chica flamenco guitar.
A few months later I moved to Santa Barbara and started my own little guitar shop, doing repairs and some buying and selling. One day someone offered me a small collection of guitar making tools, books and materials for a good price, and I bought them. This triggered me to make my first classical guitar, it was a logical next step. And that first guitar sounded pretty good. I was continuing to practice guitar playing every day, and the two things, building and playing, became fully entwined in my mind, so I simply continued building and playing in about equal parts as a lifestyle. I was single, in my 20s, living on the coast in California, it was a very good time.

Click for the rest of the Guitar Bench Interview

And the winner is....

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Perry Weissburg and his new Hill Guitar

Robert "Perry" Weissburg

Congratulations to the Omni Foundation raffle winner of the Hill Guitar Company Performance Series Classical Guitar Perry Weissburg.


Perry Weissburg & Richard Patterson

Perry is from Belmont, CA and is studying the classical guitar. He was absolutely thrilled to win.

What a great match!

Robert "Perry" Weissburg & Richard Patterson,
Director of the Omni Foundation.

Win a Handmade Hill Performance Series Guitar

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OMNI FOUNDATION 2012-2013 SEASON RAFFLE

Support the Omni Foundation Guitar Series and win a Handmade Hill Guitar Company Performance Series Classical Guitar

Donation: $20
Drawing held at Pepe Romero concert, April 28, 2013
Winners need not be present to be eligible.

Over $7500 in Prizes!

Grand Prize: A Hill Performance Series Concert Guitar with arched case
www.hillguitar.com
The Performance Series is the newest line of fine guitars designed and built in the Hill California workshop. These guitars offer a great sounding high-quality modern concert instrument at a medium price - List $5500 with case. The Performance Series is handmade in the traditional Spanish style, with the integral body and neck joint, and incorporates a modern double top soundboard, with lattice or fan-bracing. Sound ports are standard, unless requested otherwise.

Sound board: Damann style double top comprised of Englemann spruce, Nomex and Western red cedar
Lattice bracing
Sound ports
Back & sides: Indian rosewood
Fingerboard: ebony
String length: 650mm
20th fret extention
Tuners: Gotoh
Finish: French polish
Lightweight double-acting truss rod
Fingerboard at the nut: 51mm
Overall length: 39 1/2"
Body length: 19 1/2"
Upper bout: 11"
Lower bout: 14 1/4"
Body depth: 3 3/4 - 4"
Arched case included
View Details and Photos

Other prizes include:

A Pair of Full Series Subscription tickets for the 2013-2014 Omni Foundation Guitar Series, including Priority Seating.

$100 Gift Certificates at GSP Guitars, Music and Accessories
www.gspguitar.com
Celebrate with a night in a King Suite at the Hotel Majestic in San Francisco
www.thehotelmajestic.com/
10 Set boxes of D'Addario Classical Guitar Strings
www.daddario.com

More prizes to be announced.

For Omni Raffle tickets and information

Eva Beneke with LeChic Guitar Duo in Concert

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Hill Guitar Company along with Carmel Guitar Society and Friedman Eye Center presents:

Eva Beneke with LeChic Duo Guitar Concert on Friday, March 22 at 7:00 PM

Eva Beneke Master Class on Saturday, March 23

Eva is an internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and published arranger, with a free-spirited virtuosity and enormous talent for improvisation. She is a true musical find.

Tickets

Eva Benenke Musical Links

For Masterclass registration, Sat. March 23rd. email jstark@hillguitar.com

Renowned classical guitarists Iren Arutyunyan and Sofia Gleeson have combined their talents to form the LeChic Guitar Duo. Iren and Sofia met studying guitar at the Flora L. Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in 2009, and went on to form this cutting-edge duo in 2010.
LeChic Duo

SBGS Open Mic hosted by Kenny Hill

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SBGS open mic

February 26, 2013 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Vineland Branch Public Library
1450 Blossom Hill Road
San Jose,CA 95118

Kenny will be hosting this enjoyable evening, as well as entertaining with a couple original Hill pieces and sharing works of Johannes Moller which are sure to delight.

About the Open Mic:

Everyone is welcome! Audience and performers of all levels: beginner to professional: all are warmly received and encouraged.
Finger picking nylon string styles (leave the Les Paul at home). Soloists and ensembles of any combination.
10 minutes maximum per performer, coordinated by a different guest host each month.
Tropical juice and coffee provided by the SBGS. Fruit, cake and cookies are welcome: please bring enough to display and share.

NAMM 2013...Kenny's perspective

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Rich Sayage Savage Classical Guitar

We've returned from NAMM 2013 safe and more or less sane, a week of packing and carrying guitars, travel, selling, socializing with customers, vendors, friends, partners and family. Overall the mood of the show was intense, upbeat, with most people well involved in their businesses and lives, with not a whole lot of the lament and woe that we've heard in the previous couple of years. Our own guitars get great reviews and are moving well, and our company is enjoying a good reputation and fine friendships around the world. It's a real privilege in this business to know and connect with many different characters from around the entire globe, a vivid example of how beautifully woven modern international relations and commerce truly are. The world could learn a lot about international relations from hanging around at NAMM, and in fact, we do.

Simon & Quillan Hill

Colt Valenti

For me the most important development within this years NAMM was the efforts of my sons Simon and Quillan. This year I threw much of the responsibility for the mounting the show into their laps. They had to pack the instruments and display booth, drive it down, unload and set it up, and at the end undo the process. What they also did beautifully was occupy the booth assist with sales and hosting for all four days of the show. They met people, old customers and new, vendors old and new, and attracted some very fine young musicians, spontaneously playing beautiful music in our booth. These kids are youth magnets, reaching new people I would never meet no matter how many shows I attend. Simon and Quillan are smart, energetic, funny, personable, good looking and young! They seemed to slip into the role of the face and the work of the company quite naturally, and I am very, very proud of them. I hope they enjoyed being there as much as everyone else enjoyed them. I am also very grateful for the presence and efforts of Jessica Stark, who keeps everything going smoothly, makes friends easily, and reminds us to mind our manners. She's great.
We're all back at work now, making guitars, making music, and getting them all out to the world. Thank you to everyone for your support and interest. I am grateful to be in such a rewarding field, surrounded by so many good people and projects. It feels like we are just getting started.

Kenny Hill Feb 1, 2013

Guitarfest and Competition March 22 and 23, 2013 in Monterey

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Click here to Purchase Passport - Enter Competition

Six-String Strategy

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BEN LOMOND -- Kenny Hill oversees a sophisticated global operation that manufactures classical guitars on two continents, with materials from around the world, to sell to customers in several countries -- and he does it all from a converted house among the fog-shrouded redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

"World headquarters in Ben Lomond!" Hill says, marveling that his complex enterprise is centered in a place better known for logging than logistics.

Hill is the founder of Hill Guitar, an outfit that makes about 150 top-of-the-line instruments a year in a small plant with six workers just down the hill from world headquarters and an additional 50,000 a year that he has designed for more modest budgets
in a factory halfway around the world in Guangzhou, China."Our business is as complicated as Honda or Mercedes," Hill says.

When I set out to explore manufacturing and its future in the Made in the Bay Area series, I didn't expect to be making a trip up the winding road from Silicon Valley to Ben Lomond. The series has looked at how rising costs in China, increasing automation in the United States and growing globalization have made the decision about where to produce goods more complicated. And it turns out Hill's operation is an ideal illustration of another byproduct of those trends: More than ever, companies need to look at individual products when deciding where in the world they can be most efficiently made.
Hill makes his most expensive guitars close to home, where he can literally take a hands-on approach with the meticulously crafted instruments. In China, he relies on an assembly-line operation in a factory of 200 workers to provide economies of scale for guitars that sell for much less than his Ben Lomond models. And he's helping launch a plant in Oxnard that will produce guitars priced between the Ben Lomond and Chinese models and that require a level of hand-crafting greater than the Chinese products and less than the high-end guitars.

Click here to view the entire San Jose Mercury article


Kenny Hill, founder of Hill Guitar Company plays one of his high-end custom-built acoustic guitars at his showroom in Ben Lomond, Calif. (Gary Reyes/Staff)

Contact Mike Cassidy at mcassidy@mercurynews.com or 408-920-5536. Follow him at Twitter.com/mikecassidy.

Guitar Festival and Competition

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Hill Guitar Company with The Carmel Classic Guitar Society and Friedman Eye Center, proudly present a 2 Day Guitar Festival and Competition!

Friday March 22 and Saturday March 23, 2013

Friday's event will feature an evening concert with Eva Beneke at the Museum of Monterey

Saturday's 9:00am to 6:00pm schedule at the
Monterey Conference Center
One Portola Plaza, Monterey, CA will include:

Seminars
Masterclasses
Competitions
Vendor Displays

Saturday's evening concert features Marc Teicholz at the Museum of Monterey

The first place winner of the festival competition will be awarded $500. Stay tuned for registration information and competition guidelines.

Jonathan Braun's Custom Hill Guitar

2012-11-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

615mm Performance Standup

We just completed a custom Performance Model instrument for Jonathan Braun, a good guitarist and old friend from Marin County. He asked me to make very special instrument designed for comfort and ease, a Performance Model guitar, but with a Stand Up style tapered body, an ergonomic arm rest, and a 615 mm string length.

The very short 615 string length was the biggest departure for me. I have built guitars a small as 630 mm, and I've also had guitars even shorter, but generally those instruments are smaller body, designed for children or other small people. In this case we were pushing the limit if how- short-can-you-go. The best way I know to discover what a "limit" is, is to pass it. I thought maybe this would be past the limit, but no. This 615 scale concert guitar is really magical.
Honestly, the bass, the volume, the trebles and the overall presence are completely acceptable, wonderful actually, with no obvious sacrifice of sound. What is unusual about this guitar is the incredible playability because of the shorter fret spacings, and the a remarkable sustain, kind of supernatural, due I suppose tot the low tension on the top.

Wedge

Whatever it is, the overall affect is very appealing, and it extends the horizon of what's-possible once again. There's nothing like a good old 650 mmm concert classical guitar, but more and more we are finding variations that suit a lot of special desires, needs or curiosities, and sacrifice nothing in the process. Pretty cool. I'm going to make a couple more similar guitars right away, both to test some further variations, and to discern whether the magic of this guitar was a lucky anomaly, or whether it is a reliable formula. Keep in touch.
Kenny Hill

November 2012

Jonathan tries his new custom 615mm Performance at the
Hill Guitar Showroom Ben Lomond, CA

Custom Performance Specifications:

Double top: spruce/Nomex/cedar
Fan bracing
Standard Performance size body
Stand up wedge body profile
Ebony fingerboard, 51mm @ nut, 615mm string length
Sound ports
Truss rod
French polish finish

For more special features, check out our Features and Options page.

Check out the Amazon Rosewood on this 640 Hill Performance Model

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640 Hill Performance Model

FEATURES:

640mm: Short string length

Double top: Spruce/nomex/cedar

Lattice Bracing

Sound Ports

Get the details here.

Back and sides feature a new alternative to endangered Brazilian rosewood: Amazon Rosewood. Lower priced than Brazilian, but offers similar sound qualities of Brazilian rosewood. Find out More info here

Call 800.262.8858 to place your special order.

New World Player Series Fingerstyle-C Revied by Acoustic Guitar Magazine

2012-10-19T11:06:00.000-07:00

Five Hybrid Nylon-Strings Reviewed

Acoustic Guitar reviews five acoustic-electric classical guitars with narrow necks from Alhambra, Córdoba, Hill, Martin, and Taylor.

Featured here, the New World Player Series Fingerstyle-C

Headquartered in Ben Lomond, California, the Hill Guitar Co. operates under the guidance of luthier Kenny Hill, who has been building classical guitars since 1972. The company’s high-end classical guitars are highly regarded by serious classical players, but Hill also consults with Córdoba Guitars and has developed his own line of more affordable instruments that are built in China and sold under the New World Guitars name.

Our review guitar is a Fingerstyle-C model from the New World Players series. It has a 17⁄8-inch nut width and cutaway but has the overall look and rich, warm tone of a traditional classical guitar and is built with conventional classical construction techniques like fan bracing and a Spanish-foot neck joint. The high gloss finish, along with the dark cedar top, rich Indian rosewood back and sides, and understated look of the purfling and three-ringed rosette pattern creates an air of elegance.

Our Fingerstyle-C came equipped with an optional L.R. Baggs Anthem SL Classical electronics package, which includes an undersaddle pickup, microphone, and onboard preamp with a crossover circuit (click here for our review of the Anthem system). In contrast to other guitars in this article, the Anthem does not have controls in the side of the guitar (its volume control installs inside the soundhole).

Both acoustically and amplified, the Hill Fingerstyle-C delivers the full-bodied tone one expects from a classical guitar, with a warm resonant midrange. The guitar is quite responsive and produces plenty of volume when played hard. I appreciated the combination of the very playable neck and warm traditional tone. I was happy with the sound of traditional classical pieces as well as jazz and Latin tunes, and the guitar’s plugged-in sound was warm, full, and surprisingly feedback resistant. Fiore commented on the Fingerstyle- C’s dark tone and spent a lot of time exploring single-note melodies in the bass, as well as the wide range of tones created by varying his pickinghand position.

NOTEWORTHY FEATURES:
Anthem SL Classical pickup.
Traditional classical tone.

SPECS: Solid cedar top. Solid Indian rosewood back and sides. 12-fret mahogany neck with Spanish-foot neck joint. Venetian cutaway. Ebony fingerboard. Rosewood bridge. Bone nut and saddle. 650-mm (25.59-inch) scale. 17⁄8-inch nut width. 21⁄4-inch string spacing at the saddle. L.R. Baggs Anthem SL Classical electronics. D’Addario Pro Arte strings. Made in China. Left-handed version available without a cutaway.

PRICE: $1,995 ($1,795 without electronics).

MAKER: Hill Guitar Co.: (800) 262-8858 www.neworldguitar.com.

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HILL GUITAR ADDS SPECIAL FEATURES

2012-10-09T16:08:00.000-07:00

In response to many Frequently Asked Questions, we've started to add specific information regarding the features and options on our guitars with hopes we'll provide a knowledge base for those interested.

The first 3 sections we've added are regarding Double tops, French Polish and Kenny's Stand up Signature model. You can find these pages here:

Double Top

Why a French Polish

Stand Up Model

In the coming weeks we will be adding information regarding the following subjects:

Why we install truss rods

Lattice and Fan Bracing

Sound Ports

Elevated Fingerboard

Smaller Body Sizes

Short Scale Lengths

Why an Arm Rest

What's different about a Crossover

Woods

What else do you want to know about?

Johannes Moller in concert in Monterey, CA

2012-10-03T12:34:00.000-07:00

Hill Guitar Company and The Carmel Guitar Society with Freidman Eye Center, is proud to bring you the 2010 1st place GFA winner Johannes Moller in Concert in Monterey

Johannes will be performing at the Maritime Museum of Monterey on Columbus day Monday October 8th at 7pm. Tickets are $20 and membership renewal to the Guitar Society gets one free ticket. Click here for Tickets

Kenny Hill states, "Johannes plays guitar in another realm. He uses the guitar with a delicate, sensitive, powerful touch. His own compositions carry a sincerity and emotional impact that is irresistible, and his approach to traditional classical repertoire is refreshing and inspiring, shaped by his own enhanced skills as a composer. His understanding of the fingerboard, the harmonic possibilities and the resonance of the instrument are truly unique and profound. He is a charismatic performer, and shares his love for the music in a way that is personal, compelling and elevating."
Johannes plays a lovely cedar top Hill Signature Model guitar, made in 2011.

Johannes Moller is an artist you don't want to miss. If you are anywhere in the Monterey Bay or greater bay area it is definitely worth your while to travel to downtown Monterey. If you are farther away, he will also be playing in Sacramento on October 5th and in Los Angeles on October 11th. Johannes' Concert Schedule

Here playing "Ananda" Live in Sarasota, Johannes displays a wonderful, personal example of the expression of the guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kMq_uF8W5Cw

Hill Guitar Company...another new era.

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Hill Guitar Company is in yet another new era, maybe the best yet. My sons are both working in the company. I'm happy to say they are working hard to absorb our past and experience, and push forward to do more good work.

What else could a dad ask for?

At this time, Simon is assembling the guitars up to the bindings, and I am doing neck, fingerboard, frets, etc.

Quillan is sanding and French polishing.

But we are only part of the team. Francisco Hernandez has been with me for around 20 years, first in Mexico and now here in California. He is a great, great, guitar maker, and I can't imagine where we would be without him. He has been making guitars for over 60 years with great skill and patience. He is really from an old world, and a true treasure.

Haiying Jiang has been with us for many years doing French polish, and she is passing along the process. She is very, very good at this, generous in teaching. Haiying and Quillan are both doing French polish, a slow but happy finish process.

Ben Lamdin has been with us for about 5 years, doing bridges, finish buffing and set up and repairs. He's dedicated and he's good. He is the person that brings all the guitars to completion and perfection.

Together we are making some of the best guitars ever, and with any luck, you'll get one!

Radio Interveiw with Kenny Hill on KPIG 107.5

2012-08-14T13:54:00.002-07:00

Tune in this Sunday 10/7 from 10 to Noon PST to hear

Check out more video samples of artists playing our guitars, recordings and interviews with Kenny here: http://www.hillguitar.com/website/video/video.html

INTRODUCING THE HILL PERFORMANCE 7/8 630mm MODEL

2012-07-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

There are certain developments that are favoring some smaller guitars in the world; one is the remarkable number of child players who are becoming very accomplished at an early age, and another is the population of wise, experienced guitarists who long for instruments more comfortable and easier to play. Until now, in the guitar market, smaller has almost always been cheaper, and lower quality because it's perceived to be for young students who aren't so serious.

I've been working with shorter string lengths and smaller body guitars for a long time. Recently Scott Gossage a Teacher at Silicon Valley Classical Guitar School was in our showroom shopping with a talented young student, and while trying guitars he said "if only you had this size guitar but with this string length." What he said made sense to me, so I did it.

I have taken our standard Performance Series and reduced the perimeter by 5mm all the way around, and built it with 630mm string length, and I love it. We are referring to the body size as 7/8, which is about right. To me the lines of the body are just beautiful, the guitar feels wonderful and luxuriant, and it produces a full concert sound, and plays very easily.

So far I have made two, one spruce, one cedar, but I have also made the molds for it, so this can be part of our regular production schedule, as time permits.

This s a slightly smaller classical guitar, with full concert sound, featuring our unique Performance Series design including double top, lattice bracing, sound ports and French polish finish. It's priced the same as the standard Performance, and as such is a first class concert guitar at a modest professional price.

I don't know of anything else like it anywhere. If you have ever wondered about something like this, well, this is it. You really deserve to try it.

Kenny Hill

June 2012.

Want to hear how a particular Hill Guitar sounds???

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For years, people have been asking, hoping, wondering...
"What does a Hill Guitar sound like?"

Now, after years of only being able to experience this amazing sound by walking into a Hill Dealer, or visiting our Showroom in the Santa Cruz Mountains, you can click here to check out video of Guitar Samples and updated Artist Samples!

SIGNATURE SERIES

are our finest and most prestigious guitars, each one custom made to the highest standards of excellence.

PERFORMANCE SERIES

guitars are a lower priced line of instruments with features and qualities of the SIGNATURE series.

We Start Adding Video of Artists Playing Our Guitars

2012-07-09T14:59:00.001-07:00

Kenny was on hand in Dalian, China where this video of Huaicaong Mu playing Villa Lobos' Etude #7 was shot in June of 2012.

Huaicaong Mu plays a Hill Signature model.

This is one of several videos we'll be adding to our video cache on YouTube featuring musicians playing our instruments. The videos will also be available to browse on our website by guitar, and by artist as well.

New Hill Guitar Artists Page!!!

2012-06-07T11:23:00.001-07:00

Many a fine Classical Guitar Artist plays a Hill Guitar...or two!

We've compiled those players in one location on our web site, sharing their biographies, videos and sound clips for your enjoyment.

Here is just a taste of what you'll find on our page...Click here to check them out!

Omni Foundation Raffle

2012-05-29T11:06:00.000-07:00

Bill Econome was the happy winner of a Kenny Hill Performance Series Guitar at the Omni Foundation Raffle on April 29, 2012 at Guitar Solo.

Photo by: Teresa Tam http://www.teresatamstudio.com/

We at Hill Guitar Company are delighted to be a part of the Omni Series...it's one of best guitar series' in the world!

PHILADELPHIA CLASSICAL GUITAR FESTIVAL 2012

2012-04-13T11:17:00.004-07:00

In Philadelphia this weekend? Don't miss a recital featuring the 2010 PCGS and 2010 GFA compeititon winner, Johannes Moller at the PHILADELPHIA CLASSICAL GUITAR FESTIVAL 2012. This weekend, Saturday April 14 & Sunday April 15.

Kenny Hill will be there featuring 2 Signatures 2 Performances and a Signature Stand up model.

Stop by and check us out!

An 11 String Story

2012-04-05T10:40:00.010-07:00

This week we finished up an 11 string Performance Series guitar, custom ordered by Matt Gabrio from Washington State. This is an instrument designed to play music from the renaissance and baroque periods, written for lute. Most of that music is written in tablature, not really playable on a 6 string guitar, at least not without serious transcription. Using this 11 string guitar and appropriate tunings, the music of Bach, Weiss, Kasperberger, Dowland and so many more can be played with all their original voicings, but without the expense and difficulties of owning a lute or two or three. This music is really sophisticated, and when played in historic tunings has a pastoral and transcendent character that just doesn't quite translate to a 6 string guitar.

The original idea for this came from Terry Schumacher. He wanted a guitar that could be acquired by college music departments to give students access to several hundred years of beautiful music written entirely in tablature. We collaborated on this general design about 10 years ago, and made maybe 10 pieces. I've heard some great recordings from those prototypes.

This current one has the same overall design elements, but is updated with a double top, lattice bracing and sound ports. It seems very alive and sparkling, with the sound and dynamic qualities that I expect from the Performance Series. It's a hybrid, a modern instrument made for playing very old and traditional music. For me it's a little un-nerving to string it up, because it's quite confusing for me to try and play so many strings! I expect the new owner will put the time in to really learn how to use it, and I look forward to hearing the music that comes out of it.
KH

From the New Owner:
Matthew Gabrio wrote:
Kenny, Larry and all who worked on the 11-string for me; wow. What a work of art. This instrument is the first concert style guitar I've had since I parted with my 1964 Miguel Rodriguez(which now sits behind the glass at Rosewood Guitar, for the most part unplayed -sigh-) and I must tell you I've never been happier with a guitar. The sound is even, full, clear, and extremely well balanced.
I love you all. Fantastic work! When I'm ready for a new 6-string, I'll be having you build it.
Thank you so much,
Matt Gabrio
p.s. When I record a youtube at quaver studios, I'll be sure to send you the link.

We'll look forward to hearing that Matt!
Thanks!

Interview with Kenny Hill By Dedrick Koh

2012-02-17T10:53:00.000-08:00

The name “Kenny Hill” has become of the most prestigious and exciting names to emerge from North America. Kenny Hill first started making guitars in the 1970s, and since then, a venerable who’s who of classical guitarists have played or owned his instruments.

Interview with Kenny Hill

JP Durand visits @NAMM

2012-01-21T10:05:00.000-08:00

JP Durand from the band Incendio tried out the Indian rosewood topped Stage model and Kenny's Signature with pick up.