| 词条 | Dana Bourgeois |
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| name = Dana Bourgeois | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1953 | birth_place = Westbrook, Maine | residence = | nationality = American | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | occupation = Luthier | alma_mater = Bowdoin College | notable_works = | website = {{URL|http://bourgeoisguitars.net/}} | field = | religion = }} BackgroundDana Bourgeois was born and raised in Westbrook, Maine. As a child, his interest in guitars developed after seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.[5][6] Bourgeois attended Bowdoin College, where he studied art history,[1][6] and graduated in 1975.[5] While at college, Bourgeois read a book called Classic Guitar Construction by Irving Stone,[1][5][6][7] whose method in the book was, purportedly, "totally impossible." After that, Bourgeois, working from his room on campus and using a machine shop owned by his grandfather, made a guitar of his own.[1] His father helped with the wood working.[1][5][6] Bourgeois opened a shop repairing guitars in Brunswick, Maine in 1976 and continued honing his craft as a luthier.[5] He also worked at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.[5] By the late 1970s to 1980s Bourgeois worked in collaboration [8] with Eric Schoenberg and Martin Guitars to design and build an OM style Guitar.[1][6][7] Schoenberg GuitarsIn 1986, Bourgeois teamed up with guitarist Eric Schoenberg and established Schoenberg Guitars. The company manufactured flattop acoustic guitars.[5] Bourgeois stayed with the company several years.[5] Bourgeois GuitarsBourgeois started his own company, Bourgeois Guitars, which opened in 1993 and was located at Roy Continental Mill in Lewiston, Maine.[1][8][6] His use of premium materials, such as Brazilian rosewood,[9] Adirondack Spruce and Indian Rosewood, as well as his ability to "voice" his instruments earned Bourgeois a reputation within the music world as an expert luthier.[10] Using a tapping method, he fine tunes individual pieces at key times throughout the manufacturing process.[1][6] This high-quality sound distinguished Bourgeois from other luthiers and began attracting the attention of top musicians.[1][11] In 1996, Bryan Sutton, then guitarist in Ricky Skaggs' band, purchased a Bourgeois guitar in Nashville music store. A year later, at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, ME, Sutton contacted Bourgeois to set up a meeting. "This guy calls me and says he's playing in Maine," Bourgeois told Ray Routhier of the Portland Press Herald, "so I figure it could be anybody. But then he says he plays with Ricky Skaggs." The meeting resulted in an endorsement deal, a collaboration with Skaggs', to make and sell the Ricky Skaggs Signature Model and Ricky Skaggs Country Boy Model guitars.[1] "At a casual glance, making guitars seems glamorous, but really we're just making sawdust," Bourgeois said, "But when we build one for a famous person, it's something everyone gets excited about."[1] In 1999, Bourgeois signed a distribution deal with Akai, a Japanese music and electronics company. With 16 employees and the prospect of growing his business internationally, Bourgeois expected to grow his business further. For a time, Akai marketed the Bourgeois Artisan Series guitars: the DR-A dreadnought and JR-A jumbo orchestra model.[2] Along with the two guitars for international distribution, Bourgeois also made Martin Simpson and Ricky Skaggs signature guitars, though in limited editions.[2] However, the distributor stopped ordering new guitars, leaving Bourgeois without the backing necessary to meet operating expenses. Despite attempts to find new investors and to sell directly to his customers online, Bourgeois was forced to liquidate the business, filing bankruptcy and auctioning off the guitar-making equipment.[5][6] Pantheon GuitarsAfter Bourgeois Guitars closed its doors, guitar hobbyist, collector and investment banker Patrick Theimer approached Bourgeois with another business venture. With Theimer, three other investors, and Bourgeois, who would oversee guitar production,[12] Pantheon Guitars was formed in 2000.[5] The business model employed at Pantheon allowed Bourgeois to focus on making the guitars he was known for while sharing marketing and manufacturing resources with other independent luthiers.[6] Bourgeois continues to offer custom-designed guitars, including the BK/Slope D, which earned an Editor's Pick Award from Guitar Player Magazine.[13] Among Bourgeois' current offerings are also guitars (his Aged Tone Series) made with a wood-aging process called torrefaction. While not "vintage", these guitars tend to replicate the look and sound of quality of instruments that are older, more "broken in".[10][4][14] He commemorated the building of his 5,000th guitar with the Bourgeois Victoria that was described in an Acoustic Guitar Magazine article as a "one-of-a-kind, sub-parlor-size custom 12-fret instrument inspired by American guitars made during the Victorian era (1837-1901), matched with a period-style wooden 'coffin' case."[15] He also spends time training luthiers to carry on the trade.[10] Festivals, Memberships, Awards
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite news|last1=Routhier|first1=Ray|title=Top picking guitar maker Dana Bourgeois is making a name for himself with some pretty big-name musicians|work=Portland Press Herald|date=April 26, 1999|location=Portland, Maine|page=1.C}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Andy|title=Acoustic guitars: high tech meets tradition|journal=Guitar Player|date=June 1999|volume=33|issue=6|page=74|publisher=NewBay Media LLC}} 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Thompson|first1=Art|title=Ten high-end acoustics|journal=Guitar Player|date=August 2013|volume=47|issue=8|page=58|publisher=NewBay Media LLC}} 4. ^1 {{cite journal|title=Bourgeois Guitars' Aged Tone Series|journal=MMR|date=February 2013|pages=36–40}} 5. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 {{cite journal|title=Dana Bourgeois '75 Guitar Maker|journal=Bowdoin Magazine|date=Winter 2001|volume=72|issue=2|url=http://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/archives/alumni/dana_bourgeois_75_guitar_maker.shtml|accessdate=2 May 2015}} 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite news|title=Enter on the upbeat; After emerging from bankruptcy, Dana Bourgeois has regrouped in an innovative new business that frees him to focus on what he's famous for: crafting exquisite guitars|work=Portland Press Herald|issue=Final edition|date=October 7, 2001|location=Portland, Maine|page=1F}} 7. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Gerken|first1=Teja|title=Bourgeois Guitars|journal=Acoustic Guitar|date=December 2004|pages=95–97}} 8. ^{{cite journal |last1=Young |first1=Doug |title=Bourgeois Custom Soloist Review |journal=Acoustic Guitar |date=July 2012 |url=http://www.acousticguitar.com/Gear/Reviews/Bourgeois-Custom-Soloist-Review |accessdate=2 May 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420014332/http://www.acousticguitar.com/Gear/Reviews/Bourgeois-Custom-Soloist-Review |archivedate=20 April 2015 |df= }} 9. ^{{cite journal|last1=Blackett|first1=Matt|title=Keith Sewall|journal=Guitar Player|date=March 2010|volume=44|issue=3|page=60|publisher=NewBay Media LLC}} 10. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal|last1=McCarty|first1=David|title=Bourgeois Guitars: What the top guitarists pick|journal=Bluegrass Unlimited|date=March 2014|pages=32–35}} 11. ^1 2 {{cite news|last1=Waterman|first1=Amy|title=Bourgeois Guitars makes works of art that make music|work=McClatchy-Tribune Business News|date=November 18, 2012|location=Washington, D.C.}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=Two guitar makers join to introduce new line|work=Portland Press Herald|date=December 18, 2001|location=Portland, Maine|page=2C}} 13. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Hunter|first1=Dave|title=Bourgeois BK/Slope D|journal=Guitar Player|date=August 2013|volume=47|issue=8|page=60}} 14. ^{{cite journal|last1=Perlmutter|first1=Adam|title=Everything new is old again|journal=Acoustic Guitar|date=September 2014|pages=53–56}} 15. ^{{cite journal|last1=Gerken|first1=Teja|title=Victorian Beauty: Celebrating 35 years as a guitar maker, Dana Bourgeois built a sub-parlor-size gem for his 5,000th instrument|journal=Acoustic Guitar|date=March 2010|pages=68–69}} 16. ^{{cite news|last1=Routhier|first1=Ray|title=Pickers' paradise; The Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival boasts some pretty big names. It also attracts scores of 'field pickers,' who just come to jam the night away|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-96779447.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531235130/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-96779447.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=May 31, 2016|accessdate=2 May 2015|work=Portland Press Herald|issue=Final Edition|date=July 25, 2004|page=E1}} 17. ^{{cite web|last1=Bourgeois|first1=Dana|title=Voicing The Steel String Guitar|url=http://bourgeoisguitars.net/whybourgeois/voicing-the-steal-string-guitar/|website=Bourgeois Guitars|accessdate=5 May 2015|date=June 26, 2014}} 18. ^{{cite journal|last1=Bourgeois|first1=Dana|title=Tapping Tonewoods: How the selection of species helps define the sound of your guitar|journal=Acoustic Guitar Magazine|date=March–April 1994}} 19. ^{{cite journal|last1=Bourgeois|first1=Dana|title=Finishing Touches|journal=Guitar Player|date=December 2004|volume=38|issue=12|page=S96|publisher=NewBay Media LLC}} 20. ^{{cite web|last1=Bourgeois|first1=Dana|title=Still Voicing, Still Dreaming|url=http://bourgeoisguitars.net/whybourgeois/still-voicingstill-dreaming/|website=Bourgeois Guitars|accessdate=5 May 2015|date=June 26, 2014}} 21. ^{{cite journal|last1=Bourgeois|first1=Dana|title=Play It Again! How Bryan Sutton's legendary "Banjo Killer" dreadnought was restored after being damaged by the Nashville flood of 2010|journal=Acoustic Guitar|date=March 2013|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-2900830061|accessdate=5 May 2015}} External links
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