| HELLO!!!
My name is Mike Rose and I am
the owner and operator of Countryside Guitar Repair, a business
of repairing and restoring stringed instruments. I have been in business
for five years with a 37 year history of playing and working on guitars
and other stringed instruments. I also teach guitar, some bass guitar,
and a little of various
other instruments. My primary interest lies
in trying to repair, customize, or restore an instrument as if it were
my own. I am very fussy and probably attribute that to my success as a
luthier and a person who takes great pride in what he does.
My wife and I live in the town of Holden,Maine and have a son that is in
his last year of college in South Portland, Maine. We all love music and
my son plays the guitar also. As for my wife, well... lets just say
she plays the radio real well.......:)
We all like country music,blues and a variety of folk,bluegrass, and old
rock (60s) if you know what I mean. I started playing the guitar in 1960
on an old Stella my Dad and Mom bought me for Christmas that year. I pestered
a neighbor into teaching me a few chords and well.... the rest is history!
I play every day and enjoy the guitar more than eating!!!
I tried my hand at learning how to play the pedal steel guitar, and did
fairly well, but I guess I had more interest in the electric guitar. My
favorite guitar is the Telecaster and always will be. I guess it just seems
to be a real comfortable and unique guitar, thus the interest in building
tele look-a-likes(for myself and a few friends because of patent rights)
came to be a few years back, and I've been experimenting with some different
woods and have made some nice looking guitars. By the way, hats off to
Fender for paving the way, not only for some great pickers, but for giving
people like myself ideas to be creative with.
Well, at this point, I sure hope you enjoy the website and as time goes
on I will more than likely be updating the site for the future enjoyment
of all guitar pickers (a unique and rare breed of individual playing an
instrument that looks so simple but in reality is so complex it boggles
the imagination of anyone trying to learn it), let alone, in this day and
age of busy lifestyles trying to find the time to dedicate to learning
such a magnificient and beautiful sounding instrument.
Thanx for visiting !!!
Mike Rose, Luthier
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