Bear Creek Guitars
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Musical instruments |
| Headquarters | California |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Bill Hardin |
| Products | Custom Weissenborn-style Hawaiian lap steel guitars |
| Website | Bear Creek Guitars |
Bear Creek Guitars is a
ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman in designing an updated 7-string baritone
version of the Style IV Weissenborn, called the BearTone.
History
Bill Hardin was introduced to the Weissenborn by Don Young of
Fretboard Journal feature article.[3]
Instruments
Bear Creek builds both hollowneck and Kona roundneck copies of the Weissenborn,[4] as well as Spanish steel-stings, ukuleles, and resonators. The BearTone can be heard on Bob Brozman's Nankuru Naisa, his second collaboration with Takashi Hirayasu (their first collaboration, Jin Jin, features Brozman on a Bear Creek "Kona Rocket.")[5]
References
- ISBN 0-89658-631-6.
- ISBN 0-634-07920-4.
- ^ Volk, Andy. "Hollow Be Thy Name: Bear Creek's Bill Hardin and the allure of the Weissenborn-style guitar." The Fretboard Journal, issue number 8 (Winter 2007), p. 18.
- ^ Diego, César. "Weissenborn.es: Today's Incredible Builders". Retrieved Jan 17, 2011.
- ^ Brozman, Bob. "Bear Creek Hawaiian Guitars". Retrieved Jan 17, 2011.
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