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Show 5195 Emigration Canyon 583-1869 Breakfastanytbne Live lVlusic Buy•Seii•Trade 3005 E. 3300 S. Salt Lake City 466-0540 Lowest Every Day Prices on all COs Special Orders at the Same Low Price 12 Intermountain Acoustic Musician, June 1994 Guitar technical workshop LuthierTim Gonzales will help you finetune your instrument's performance Tim Gonzales wants to help you have a better relationship with your guitar. The Summerhays Music luthier is offering a series of four workshops that will cover everything from basics, such as the difference between bronze and phosphor-bronze strings, to acoustic theories like scale length and its effect on tone and performance. Do you know what a basic guitar setup is? The four elements? In what order they should be checked? "Most people don't have a clue on what's what, let alone in which sequence they should be checked," said Time. "People always ask this and that about their guitars ... this seemed the best way to help people." Talk to Tim about his luthiery for any length of time and you'll get the feeling he believes in magic; not just because his first hand-made guitar, patterned after the Martin HD-28, has an inlaid I Ching hexagram around the rosette and yin-yang at the tip, or that the fingerboard of his wife's guitar (similar to the Taylor Grand Concert) is inlaid with the phases of the moon, but Rick's Cycle Parts 2224 South 600 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Used motorcycle parts Rick Martinez 485-0156 because for Tim, building a guitar mirrors the process of life. "They're the same thing. (They are) about finding enjoyment in the little things. Guitar building is such a great model of life for me'because if you focus on the whole process, it'll drive you nits and you'll get totally discouraged. Break is down into a bunch of little steps-there are probably a thousand little steps that go into an instrument- and you have to do one at a time, we, and then enjoy what you've done with that step. through following that process, it gets done." Tim's interest in the guitar came relatively late, during his second year in college. "When I started, I said I just wanted to learn three tunes, Blowin' in the Wind and a couple of John Denver tunes. I learned then and I was hooked and wanted to learn more. (I still don't know Stairway ... ) But learning tunes is one thing ... why go all to all the trouble to make a guitar? "The way my mind works is, once I jump into something, I want to follow it around; like music-who influenced whom? Where'd they get that idea? Who do they listen to? With the guitar, it was the same thing: how does it work? what is it about? It was natural to want to learn how to build one of these things." The curiosity led him to Redwing Technical College in Minnesota for a one-year course in luthiery. Tim was so curious, he stated an extra year; one just wasn't enough to explore all the aspects that intrigued him. Then the magic started happening. continued next page |
