Celebrated luthier Dana Bourgeois has reached an auspicious milestone. After nearly 50 years building guitars, he has assigned serial number 10,000 to a truly special instrument, a highly ornate OM-45 model designed for the occasion. Bourgeois has reached into his personal
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Bourgeois Guitars announces Touchstone series models
Bourgeois Guitars, noted for years for their uncompromising quality and workmanship, plus the playability and tonal excellence of their professional acoustic guitars, has announced a new line of more budget friendly models through their association with the Eastman Music Company. Called the Touchstone
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Eastman and Bourgeois announce new partnership
Bourgeois Guitars and Eastman Music have announced a new partnership that offers advantages to both companies, while allowing Dana Bourgeois to continue making guitars as he has been in his Maine facility. The structure of their arrangement is an interesting one,
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Bob Smallwood takes over at Bourgeois Guitars
Bob and Sonjia Smallwood Bourgeois Guitars, located in Lewiston, ME, has introduced Bob Smallwood as their President/COO, and CFO. Smallwood has actually been at the helm since September 2016, when he came aboard to assist founder and chief luthier Dana Bourgeois
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Bourgeois introduces 40th Anniversary model
Bourgeois has announced a limited run of a truly distinctive, 40th Anniversary guitar. Only 15 of these models will be built, using special reserve quilted mahogany back/sides and master grade, torrified adirondack spruce tops. They will be offered in either
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Bourgeois auction raises $10K for Tony Rice
Bourgeois has announced the successful completion of their Tony Rice tribute guitar auction, where $10,000 was raised to benefit Tony. They had built a custom instrument as an homage to Tony's classic D-28, the Clarence White guitar, and offered it
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Tony Rice Bourgeois auction starts today
Back in October we posted about the custom Dana Bourgeois guitar being built to honor and benefit Tony Rice. It was designed and built as a Bourgeois interpretation of Tony's priceless 1935 D-28, often called the Clarence While guitar, as it spent
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Custom Bourgeois guitar auctioned to benefit Tony Rice
We have written many times about the difficulties Tony Rice has experienced of late, particularly the health issues that have made it impossible for him to perform. Owing to advanced arthritis, Tony is no longer able to play the guitar
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Bourgeois announces limited edition Bryan Sutton model
Bourgeois Guitars has announced their latest model, The Bryan Sutton Limited Edition (LE) Dreadnaught, which will be crafted in a limited run of thirty guitars. This is designed as a replica of Bryan's 1997 D-150 Bourgeois, the one he used during his time
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More on the Bourgeois “Banjo Killer” restoration
Here's an update to a story we did last summer... The March edition of Acoustic Guitar magazine has a very interesting story about Bryan’s legendary "Banjo Killer" dreadnought guitar, which was damaged in the devastating Nashville flood of May 2010. In what