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Stunning Instruments Made the Slow Way

Andrew Mowry is a local luthier, but rarely sells his creations to locals
Chris Miller

Stepping inside the Mowry Stringed Instruments shop brought back memories of watching “This Old House” with my grandfather. The smells of wood, glue and the sight of the hand tools gave me a feeling of nostalgia. Andrew Mowry builds handmade mandolins, mandolas, guitar-bodied octave mandolins and guitars—plus other stringed instruments. He said he started hobby […]

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From the Forest to the Stage

Jayson Bowerman builds one-of-a-kind custom acoustic guitars in Bend
Anne Pick

The guitar. It’s iconic. Even as children, we’re not raised playing “air piano” or “air oboe.” It’s air guitar. No offense to those other instruments, but the guitar just has a certain coolness that’s both unmeasurable and unmatched by any other musical device. It seems only natural that the most beautiful guitars, both visually and […]

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