2020 Kenny Hill

 An Everything-Guitar

Spruce/Nomex/cedar double top + natural wooden lattice bracing. Doubled sides, with Indian rosewood back and sides. Dual sound ports system. Sloane tuning machines.

This amazing concert-level guitar has everything you could ask for! Kenny did everything he could to build the best possible guitar. This guitar has a Nomex double top, lattice bracing, and doubled sides. The result is a very natural, traditional, charming, and elegant-sounding guitar, yet with the modern guitar volume that can fill any concert hall you are playing in.

A Genius’s Design

Kenny is a friend of mine and an incredibly meticulous and perfectionist genius. When I met him, he told me that he pursued the path of classical guitar performance before becoming a leading luthier. He used to practice in the cold and harsh winter, much like the martial artists in the old Hong Kong movies, so that in the warm and comfortable concert halls, he would play with all the ease and comfort in the world. When he joined a competition, he lost to David Tanenbaum, the head of the Guitar Department in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where I studied. You can’t blame Kenny for that! After deciding that performance was maybe not for him, he went on and became one of the leading luthiers. Only a luthier who plays the instrument can truly understand the needs of a player and build a fine instrument like this!!