Stringed Instruments, horn speakers, and tube amplifiers by Ian Schneller.
Welcome to the Specimen School of Guitar Making. Come learn and create at Specimen!
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Tube Amp Making Course – Guitar, Bass, or Stereo Hi Fi
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Guitar Set-Up & Maintenance Course
Price range: $375 through $400
From the Blog
Specimen Luthiery in Polo, IL
I have to say that these last 26 years in Humboldt Park have been the most awesome experience of my life. My daughter was born and mostly raised in this workshop. Now she is grown and I want to really focus on my work and teach at a somewhat slower and well defined pace. The […]
In the News
The New Yorker
Andrew Bird’s Cozy Melancholy The singer-songwriter-whistler-violinist adapts his “Gezelligheid” holiday concerts for the pandemic age. By Sarah Larson December 7, 2020 For the past several holiday seasons, Andrew Bird, the warmly tuneful singer-songwriter-whistler-violinist, has performed a concert series called “Gezelligheid”—meaning “coziness,” or kind of a Dutch hygge—often at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. The holiday […]