Are You Ready For The Healdsburg Guitar Festival?

In the early beginnings, the Healdsburg Guitar Festival provided a venue for guitar enthusiasts to try out different guitars while the builder of the guitar was still present but now the festival has grown into a gathering of the nation’s finest luthiers.

This year, the Healdsburg Guitar Festival will feature one very special guest, Healdsburg resident and master luthier Tom Ribbecke.

People in attendance will be able to see one of Ribbecke’s “Final 25” guitars at the festival. What makes this guitar so special is that it is made out of one of the most rare trees, a quilted mahogany that was harvested in Belize in 1981.

It is the only tree of its quilted pattern ever found in the world.

The guitar also features inlay work done by master inlay artist, Larry Robinson, who was chosen to do the inlay work on Martin’s Millionth’s guitar.

There will be an open house on Friday August 9 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm at Ribbecke’s production shop in Windsor, CA.

The Ribbecke Guitar Company can be located at 5793 Skylane Blvd. Suite C, Windsor, CA 95448.

A Ribbecke Chambered Electric Guitar is on display at Dovetail Collection, a gallery located at 407 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, CA.  For more information please go to http://dovetailcollection.com/