Longtermers

This year’s NAMM Show in January – where the world’s guitar brands large and small display their wares – was one of the busiest I can remember in recent years. It was impossible even over four days to see every exhibitor, but I couldn’t help noticing the continued rise (in terms of numbers, at least) of small makers. A unifying theme is that the guitars these craftspeople are producing are not cheap. In writing up our show report for issue 457, with limited