D'Angelico, Loar and Why New York Changed the Guitar Forever | Cristian Mirabella
About this episode
Jamie Gale interviews Cristian Mirabella about the history of the archtop guitar and its evolution across various locations.
Welcome to Life With Strings Attached. I'm your host, Jamie Gale. My guest today is famed archtop guitar maker Cristian Mirabella. This episode is the result of an impromptu conversation at the end of Cristian's biography episode. After our first recording, Cristian and I kept on talking, and it became clear that there was another thread worth following, the history of the archtop guitar, and how that story moves from Cremona to Michigan, New York, Canada and beyond. So I asked if we could ...
Topics covered
- archtop guitar
- guitar history
- Cremona
- New York
- guitar making
- Cristian Mirabella
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