Village Music

03/08/2024

Join us for another sizzling evening of music from Rio at the Market
Place. This week, enjoy twice the musical goodness!
We have TWO special guest artists joining our regular crew for the next Brazil Night:
Wayne Clark on mandolin and violin, and Brandi Ledferd on
percussion.

02/02/2023

02/08/2022

Here's one the Cuban Heels are working on right here at Village Music World Headquarters.

12/01/2021

This Friday!

07/12/2021

Cool engraving on this old English banjo repair

05/13/2021

Looking to expand your horizons on your instrument? I have a few openings for adventuresome, intrepid, motivated guitar students here on Bainbridge. Jazz, Blues, simple accompaniment styles, Latin, Brazilian, college prep. Become the player you would like to be. PM me, or email: [email protected]

01/27/2021

Here's an interesting repair and a fun challenge; an earlier 20th c. Weissenborn guitar with a collapsed top. You can see the distortion in the top indicative of bracing failure in the first two photos. Just casually poking around with my pallet knives, after removing the back, reveals several failed hide glue joints. My plan is to not reuse the braces that I removed, but replace them. The guitar is old enough to merit a museum-grade repair; that is, to use the original adhesive, hide glue. Anything I do to this instrument should be able to be undone and the guitar returned to it's original condition. However, I will tell you that, after checking out the original roughly done bracing, and knowing that the owner will be playing this instrument, I will upgrade the quality of bracing material itself as well as apply a more modern understanding of shaping to the new braces. Don't tell anybody.

12/20/2020

Santa (or somebody) making a few last minute Bainbridge deliveries. We're open Monday/Tuesday for last minute musical gifts. Happy Christmas!

11/26/2020

America is kinda complicated right now. For what it's worth, here are a couple of thoughts on the subject. Also....Happy Thanksgiving, folks. This take isn't "fluff" free, but I am thankful for the use of my right arm after being sidelined for 6 months.