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Musical Instruments, Makers & Performers
Show Dates: January 6, 2009 – January 31,
2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5-9pm
http://www.galleryzprov.com/january09.html
[excerpt]...To
begin our 8th year in 2009, Gallery Z will host a unique
exhibition in the month of January -- highlighting the skill
of Lutherie. This term refers to individuals who practice
the art of building stringed instruments, a tradition that
has survived for thousands of years.
Guitar maker Richard Young (owner of Eastford,
Connecticut based Still River Guitars) will curate the
exhibit, entitled Musical Instruments, Makers & Performers.
Artistic Director for the weekly events is Steve Pellegrino,
a veteran of the Providence / Boston music scene.
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Rhode Island State Council on the arts Website
http://www.arts.ri.gov/blogs/?p=4588
[excerpt]...Richard Young was born in NYC, relocating
to New England at the age of twenty. Apprenticed to master
luthier Georgy Konstantinovich Babichev, after years of
professional finish-carpentry and cabinet-making experience,
Young had developed an advanced understanding and skill
working in the medium of wood, and built guitars with Georgy
Babichev until Georgy’s passing in August of 2003. In
September 2004, Young founded Still River Guitars in
Eastford, Connecticut.Carla Kelly creates “Organic” guitars
employing nature’s principles of unified-body construction:
crafting braces from the body woods rather than gluing them
on, with rosettes which are slices of knotholes and “splat”
bridges carved to form part of the external soundboard
bracing. “My guitars are ‘of a piece.’ There are a lot of
advantages in that.”
For this Thursday’s workshop and performance, Otto
D’Ambrosio will hand off an Arch Top guitar to Mike Tanaka
to play, Richard Young will hand off a classical guitar to
Maurice Cahen to play, and Carla Kelly will hand off an
Organic Guitar to John Baboian to play.
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