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Acoustic Music – AcousticMusic.Org
Welcome to AcousticMusic.Org.
We’re a resource site; an active and expanding home for information on popular music and stringed instruments. We’re also a retail store; visit our shop in Chester, Connecticut, where we sell, buy, trade, restring and set up stringed instruments and host events. You can also browse and purchase new, used, and vintage acoustic and electric instruments, amps and gear directly from the site.
Acoustic Music is the result of a group of guitar lovers and musicians that have allowed their enthusiasms for the instruments to get entirely out of control.
It began in 1990 as an organization to allow production and copyrighting of original music. It evolved slowly into a recording studio and CD production facility. During this time, guitars were being researched and collected. It’s a progressive form of disease: the more you learn about instruments (their origin, history and the artists that used them) the more meaningful they become. They grow to be friends and even family members. They become a part of your life. The truth is, you develop an attachment, a form of love for them. The bonding is strong. One thing leads to another and before you know it, a collection becomes a passion.
Passions are fun. They want to be shared. Guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, violins, basses, baritones, mandolas are all magical in that they are amazing works of the Master Luthier’s Art and their primary purpose is to create another form of Art: Music. There is no other art form that we’re aware of that shares this pedestal: Art for Art. Anyway, musicians are wonderful this way: they are a strange and passionate species that want to share their music and the love of the instruments.
Over the years we have developed acquaintances with a number of well-known musicians and they have favored us with intimate concerts at our shop.
We also sell instruments from a number of luthiers and small shop builders that we know and admire. This, of course, led us to offer some of these new and used instruments for trade. Trades have turned out to be a pleasant alternative to the ‘sell and buy’ philosophy of some other major retail websites.
As you can imagine, this naturally led to other service offerings: Appraisal services and a Database of Lost or Stolen Instruments that we maintain and circulate to Law Enforcement Agencies and pawn Shops.
Needless to say, we are always looking for vintage instruments. If you have one that you would like to trade or sell, please let us know. Welcome, and enjoy!
Manufacturers
A-F
- AER Amplifiers
- Artinger Guitars
- Augustino Guitars
- Avalon Guitars
- Bacon & Day Banjos
- Baden Guitars
- Baker Guitars
- Bart Reiter Banjos
- Beauregard Guitars
- Benedetto Guitars
- Berkowitz Guitars
- Bourgeois Guitars
- Breedlove Guitars
- Brentrup Mandolins
- Buscarino Guitars
- Campellone Guitars
- Carlson Guitars
- Cervantes Guitars
- Charles Fox Guitars
- Collings Guitars
- Comins Guitars
- Curran Guitars
- D'Angelico Guitars
- D'Aquisto Guitars
- Dell Arte Guitars
- Deneve Guitars
- Dobro Resonator Guitars
- Dupont Guitars
- Eastman
- Eichelbaum Guitars
- Elger Guitars
- Epiphone Guitars
- Ernie Ball Guitars
- Fairbanks Guitars
- Favilla Guitars
- Fender Guitars
- Fishman Amplifiers
- Flammang Guitars
- Franklin Guitars
G-L
- Gallup Guitars
- Gibson Guitars
- Gilchrist Mandolins
- Givens Mandolins
- Goodall Guitars
- Gretsch Guitars
- Guild Guitars
- Gurian Guitars
- Harmony Guitars
- Heritage Guitars
- Hiro Ebata Guitars
- Hirschy Guitars
- Hofner Guitars
- Huss & Dalton Guitars
- JMC Guitars
- Johnny Marvin Ukuleles
- Ka-Lae Ukuleles
- Keystone Stringed Instruments
- Kinnaird Guitars
- Kirk Sand Guitars
- Kiwaya Ukuleles
- Klein and Kauffman Guitars
- Knutson Mandolins
- L.R. Baggs Electronics
- Larrivee Guitars
- Larson Brothers Guitars
- Laurent Brondel Guitars
- Levin Guitars
- Lowden Guitars
- LSL Guitars
- Lyon & Healy Instruments
M-R
- Manzer Guitars
- Martin Guitars
- Matsuda Guitars
- May-Bell Guitars
- McAlister Guitars
- McGill Guitars
- McPherson Guitars
- Mermer Guitars
- Merrill Guitars
- Michael Dunn Guitars
- Monteleone Guitars
- Morris Guitars
- Musicman Amplifiers
- Nash Guitars
- National Guitars
- New Orleans Guitars
- NS Stringed Instruments
- Occhineri Custom Guitars
- Old Wave Mandolins
- Ome Banjos
- Paco De Lucia Guitars
- Park Guitars
- Paul Reed Smith Guitars
- Pedulla Bass
- R. Taylor Guitars
- Ramirez Guitars
- Recording King Guitars
- Rickenbacker Guitars
- Rubio Guitars
S-Z
- S.S. Stewart Banjos
- S.Yairi Guitars
- Sadowsky Guitars
- Samo Mandolins
- Santa Cruz Guitars
- Shelley Park Guitars
- Silva Mandolins
- Silvertone Guitars
- Sobell Guitars
- Somogyi Guitars
- Sorrentino Guitars
- Sugi Craft Guitars
- SWP Guitars
- Tamura Guitars
- Taylor Guitars
- TC Electronic Amplifiers
- Tobias Bass
- Traynor Amplifiers
- Trenier Guitars
- Triggs Guitars
- Turner Guitars
- Une Bohn Guitars
- Vega Guitars
- Veillette Guitars
- Velazquez Guitars
- Vines Guitars
- W.E. Moll Guitars
- Walker Electric Guitars
- Washburn Guitars
- Weber Mandolins
- Weissenborn
- Weyman Banjos
- Wren Guitars
- Yamaha Guitars
- Youngblood Guitars
- Zemaitis Guitars
- Zimnicki Guitars
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