About the Builder:
Rick Turner is an American builder of guitars and basses. He has earned many names during his long career. He is considered as being the co-founder of the first boutique guitar builder. Alembic was founded in 1970 and he was involved in the design and construction of the Alembic instruments. He moved on to found Rick Turner Guitars in 1979 and joined Gibson in 1988 where he served as president of Gibson Labs West Coast R&D Division.
After leaving Gibson Gibson in 1992 he began different ventures and at present he is building his guitars under the Renaissance Guitar name. During theses years he developed piezo pickup designs, working with Jackson Browne, David Crosby and others. One of his famous guitar designs The Model 1 was developed for Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who continues to use the Model 1 to this day.
He is still very active in developing new ideas. Read more: http://www.renaissanceguitars.com/
About the Guitar:
This guitar reproduce full-frequency acoustic tone for recording and performances - a job that true acoustics are not cut out for! The thinline body is built like a fine acoustic guitar, but with an added mahogany center block to cut feedback. A Turner piezo bridge pickup feeds full-spectrum signals to an 18-volt D-TAR pre-amp.
This instrument comes from the collection of Thomas Dorn, photographer and musician: http://www.thomasdorn.com
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