A Note from Tom Bedell,
Being a boutique workshop, we are able to hand voice every US-built Made in Bend guitar, empowering you to sound better, play better, and play more than you ever thought possible. You can feel better, too. By employing sustainable forestry practices and never using clear-cut trees, we ensure your Breedlove is helping to protect our planet.
It’s a tradition at Breedlove to introduce new products twice a year—at the Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, Calif.; then again at the Summer NAMM Show in Nashville, Tenn. We continually challenge our design team, led by Angela Christensen, to develop new tonewoods, aesthetics and exciting sounds that meet and exceed our high standards. It is a semi-annual delight for us to introduce our latest innovations to you. While the Summer NAMM Show will not take place this year, we are still ready with new guitars to share. To celebrate, we’re holding our own Breedlove Summer Show!
This second edition of the Breedlove Magazine is dedicated to the concept of the Summer Show. Inside it you will find informative articles on Breedlove artists and artisans; our pioneering use of native Oregon myrtlewood; the benefits of torrefaction and the difference, from a player’s perspective, between solid and layered woods; and the inside scoop on new models just becoming available this season.
We are doing something else new this year—a live digital Summer Show experience, June 8–9. During our digital Summer Show we will take you inside the workshop, introduce you to our craftspeople, demonstrate hand voicing and guide you through the design process of a Breedlove Custom guitar. Each new model will be presented and played so you can see the new instruments, understand what makes each one special, and hear how they sound.
I hope you enjoy this edition of Breedlove Magazine and will join us for our live broadcast on Facebook, June 8–9.
Peace,
Tom Bedell
PS. you can download a PDF of this new digital magazine for free, here.
