News and Notes
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| 06/13/08 |
Acoustic Guitar magazine is now in the voting process of
it's 2008 "Player's Choice Awards". Far be it from me to
tell you how to
VOTE!!! |
| 03/21/08 |
Coming to Miami "The Dragonfly" |
| 2/29/08 |
Price Increase Notice |
| 2/18/08 |
New links: Al Petteway playing Spindrift and a
link to Luthier's Soundstage on the
Links page |
| 2/11/08 |
Watch Kevin on this
video from Acoustic Guitar
taken at Healdsburg |
| 1/28/08 |
New Stock Inlay
Art Deco Tree |
| 01/25/08 |
New page
Luthier's Corner |
| 08/30/07 |
Introducing the new
Ryan Acoustic Bevel Flutes |
| 08/05/07 |
Letter to Bob Taylor |
| 06/15/07 |
See the
Revolutionary A4 Kerfing
used by Ryan Guitars |
| 04/17/07 |
New Signature Gallery |
| 03/09/07 |
One of my fellow luthier friends is Anders Liljeström from
Finland. He has recently launched his new website. Have a
look at
http://www.liljestromguitars.com |
| 09/22/06 |
Our first
Building A
Guitar
pages are
online. Please take a look and check back periodically for
new pages. |
| 09/15/06 |
Rich Williams of Kansas plays his Ryan
Nightingale at a recent Kansas concert in Anaheim, Ca. |
| 05/12/06 |
Coming soon!!
Ryan Guitars will be soon be posting pages showing the
process of building a guitar from start to finish.
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| 2/24/06 |
New Cathedral Gallery |
| 02/23/06 |
Janis Ian visits Howard Stern with her
new Ryan Abbey. |
| 02/08/06 |
New Ryan Guitars ad |
| 02/01/06 |
Takamine visits Ryan Guitars |
| 01/09/06 |
Kate Tucker a rising star
from Seattle plays her Ryan. |
| 01/03/06 |
We have new pics of the Abbey Cutaway with Koa.
Please take a look:
Abbey Gallery
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| 12/19/05 |
We are pleased to announce the arrival of the new Abbey
Cutaway and Headstock. Elegant, beautiful, with class.
Please take a look:
Abbey Gallery
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| 12/2/05 |
Contest: "Name
the Visitor" Be the first
to Name the recent visitor to Ryan Guitars and receive set
of strings.
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| 09/14/05 |
Just added a
links page the I shall
be adding to from time to time |
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09/02/05 |
Rich Williams, guitar legend of the group Kansas, has
decided to purchase a Ryan guitar. We are honored to have
the opportunity of building a Nightingale for him.
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09/02/05 |
We just finished the first Abbey cutaway proto-type. We
shall post some pics soon.
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08/05/05 |
Rich Williams, guitar
legend of the group Kansas, visited Ryan guitars. Kevin was
given the opportunity to show Rich the shop and let him
experience a Ryan for the first time. What a treat to have such a
talented and winsome fellow drop by. To see some
photos click the following link:
Rich
Williams visit
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08/03/05 |
Ed, Randy, and Larry from Taylor Guitars in San Diego,
dropped by to see Kevin and crew. It is always nice to have
colleagues visit. It gives Kevin the chance to talk shop and
swap a few ideas.
To see some photos
click the following link:
Talyor Visit
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|
07/26/05 |
We have recently reached a
new milestone. Guitar #500 was completed as a Ryan
Signature. Beautiful Signature grade Brazilian Rosewood are a
highlight to this captivating instrument.
Kevin Ryan
Signature 500
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|
05/25/05 |
Pierre Bensusan and his
signature Ryan make the cover of
Fingerstyle Guitar magazine
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|
03/17/05 |
Pierre Bensusan has
a new CD coming in May, but on March 26th you may order this CD from his
website. Pierre used his new signature model
for the recording.
Click hear to hear samples of this CD.
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03/7/05 |
Kevin Ryan Signature pages are up. |
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02/23/05 |
Congratulations to our
friend James Jensen of Solid Air Records and Ryan guitarists
Laurence
Juber,
Al Petteway, and
Pat
Donohue for their recent Grammy Award! "Henry
Mancini Pink Guitar"
won as "Best Pop Instrumental of the Year" making each
artist a
Grammy Award winner. Al and Pat each used their Ryan guitars
for the recording.
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02/23/05 |
We are in the beginning
phases of building
Janis Ian
her matched set of guitars for recording and stage
performances.
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01/04/05 |
I could not be happier to announce that I am now working
with the great classical virtuoso
Michael Chapdelaine. Michael and I met at the Newport
Folk Festival where he was performing and I was displaying
guitars. We met and immediately clicked. I am now building
him a Nightingale to his specifications. I will post more as
this fun story unfolds.
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12/22/04 |
Janis Ian
-Grammy award winner- is requesting Ryan Guitars to build
her a matched set of guitars for recording and stage
performances. We are fortunate to have such an opportunity
to again work with this pop legend.
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12/22/04 |
Ryan Guitars shall be making an Abbey for National
Fingerstyle Champion Eric Lugosch. This is Eric's second
Ryan guitar and we are pleased to be associated with him.
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12/21/04 |
We have recently shipped
Peter
Finger his fourth Ryan guitar. Peter is one of our all
time favorites.
click here for pictures
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12/20/04 |
Two Ryan guitars were used on a Grammy Nominated CD.
Al Petteway and
Pat Donohue each used their Ryan guitars for
the "Henry Mancini Pink Guitar" produced by Solid Air
Records. We are so proud and honored to have a small part in
this endeavor.
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12/17/04 |
Announcing
the New Pierre Bensusan Signature Model |
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