From a Guitar Shop at 19 to the World's Biggest String Company | Chris Griffiths (D'Addario)
About this episode
Jamie Gale interviews Chris Griffiths about his journey from opening a guitar shop at 19 to leading a major string company.
In this episode, I sit down with Chris Griffiths, someone I’ve known for nearly twenty-five years and whose remarkable career I’ve had the opportunity to see unfold firsthand. Chris opened his first guitar shop at nineteen, trained as a guitar maker and went on to found Garrison Guitars, where he developed an entirely new approach to building an acoustic guitar. His path has since taken him through Parker, Dingwall and a range of influential music-industry companies, before leading to his cu...
Topics covered
- guitar
- music industry
- entrepreneurship
- acoustic guitar
- business
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