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Classical Guitars
by
Fritz Mueller

Biography

Like so many of my generation, I fell in love with the classical guitar listening to recordings by Segovia and Bream. I began instrument building while I was an undergraduate in Wisconsin, then took it up more seriously a few years later when graduate school lost its charm. In the late 70's I was fortunate to be able to work with master guitarbuilder Jeff Elliott in Portland, Oregon, where I was introduced to the possibilities of the Hauser model.

Although I studied literature and writing in university, I also have a technical orientation, and I've read extensively in musical acoustics. Interestingly, little of that has helped me design a better guitar, although it often helps me understand the principles behind an innovation that I've gotten to empirically, that is, through trial and error.

I love the combination of head, hands, and heart that is the luthier's working day. I've been more than blessed to have guitar-building as a career for nearly four decades.

For many years I have lived with my family on a former ranch in the mountains of British Columbia.