Guitar manufacturing Guitar manufacturing Guitar manufacturing is the use of machines, tools, and labor in the production of electric and acoustic guitars. This phrase may be in reference to handcrafting guitars using traditional methods or assembly line production in large quantities using modern methods. Guitar manufacturing can also be broken into several categories such as body manufacturing and neck manufacturing, among others. Guitar manufacturing includes the production of alto, classical, tenor, and bass tuned guitars (with classical being the most widely used tuning). A luthier is a person who has learned the craft of making string instruments including guitars, generally on a
Are You Glad to Be in America? running order, and with a new cover design featuring a recent photo of Ulmer, on the Japanese DIW label in 1995. The Allmusic review by Nathan Bush awarded the album 4 stars, and states, "Shards of jazz, rock, funk, and surf guitar are shuffled together and unfurl in frenetic lines. At times the rhythms are too rigid and the results sound like an experiment from which the musicians are trying to break free. At best, the individuals lose themselves in a highly charged dialogue". "Trouser Press" describes "Are You Glad to Be in America?" as an "exceptionally fine" album that