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keith -> luthier of the month (Jan. 15 2014 14:36:55)

just received an e-mail from guitar salon international (essentially an advertisement) and the featured luther is ethan deutsch. congrats on being the luthier of the month at g.s.i.



Ruphus -> RE: luthier of the month (Jan. 15 2014 15:25:10)

Vita of our Ethan on GSI:
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Seattle-based luthier Ethan Deutsch has been building guitars on and off since the early 1970's, and full-time since 1997. He was first attracted to flamenco music in his teens and in 1970 as a young flamenco guitarist, he moved to Morón de la Frontera, Sevilla in Spain for a year. It was there that Ethan had the good fortune of learning flamenco and befriending the legendary Gypsy guitarist Diego del Gastor. After returning to the US in 1971, he started to build guitars, at first learning from Irving Sloane’s book "Classic Guitar Construction", but for the most part he was self-taught. In the ensuing years, as Ethan made his way through life, including the completion of a PhD in chemistry from Princeton University, he continued to build guitars, build furniture (he even at one point owned a furniture store in Chicago, building the furniture himself) all the meanwhile performing flamenco under the stage name "Mario Amaya".

http://www.guitarsalon.com/p4207-ethan-deutsch.html



keith -> RE: luthier of the month (Jan. 15 2014 16:00:17)

thanks ruphus for posting the link.

hey ethan, as an ex chi-town guy, where was your furniture shop?



pink -> RE: luthier of the month (Jan. 15 2014 17:04:08)

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ORIGINAL: Ruphus

Vita of our Ethan on GSI:
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Seattle-based luthier Ethan Deutsch has been building guitars on and off since the early 1970's, and full-time since 1997. He was first attracted to flamenco music in his teens and in 1970 as a young flamenco guitarist, he moved to Morón de la Frontera, Sevilla in Spain for a year. It was there that Ethan had the good fortune of learning flamenco and befriending the legendary Gypsy guitarist Diego del Gastor. After returning to the US in 1971, he started to build guitars, at first learning from Irving Sloane’s book "Classic Guitar Construction", but for the most part he was self-taught. In the ensuing years, as Ethan made his way through life, including the completion of a PhD in chemistry from Princeton University, he continued to build guitars, build furniture (he even at one point owned a furniture store in Chicago, building the furniture himself) all the meanwhile performing flamenco under the stage name "Mario Amaya".

http://www.guitarsalon.com/p4207-ethan-deutsch.html


Thanks for sharing this news Keith and Ruphus really grateful for the above!

Ethan, congratulations on this news!

Best

pink



britguy -> RE: luthier of the month (Jan. 15 2014 21:44:39)

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featured luther is ethan deutsch. congrats on being the luthier of the month at g.s.i.


Best wishes, also.

Hope it means more business. . .



jshelton5040 -> RE: luthier of the month (Jan. 15 2014 23:13:17)

Good for you Ethan!



constructordeguitarras -> RE: luthier of the month (Jan. 16 2014 1:37:44)

Thanks, guys. Jason mentioned it on facebook but I still haven't heard this from GSI.



Tom Blackshear -> RE: luthier of the month (Jun. 22 2014 12:24:43)

Ethan, I see the GSI ads for your guitars all the time, and judging from your videos I would think that your guitars are worth somewhere in the average price range of 6 to 7000 dollars retail.

I think your guitars are way under priced but wherever works for you.



constructordeguitarras -> RE: luthier of the month (Jun. 26 2014 14:40:00)

Thanks very much for that information or opinion, Tom. It seems to be a delicate balance: not to price too many people out, to get enough to make ends meet, and some people won't realize that it's a good guitar unless it has a high price. I often wonder how it would affect my order list to have a higher or even a lower price. So I have been taking advice from GSI on pricing. And I always hope that eventually I will have a comfortable niche, but I'm not so sure anyone ever gets comfortable in this field.



Tom Blackshear -> RE: luthier of the month (Jun. 26 2014 15:09:07)

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So I have been taking advice from GSI on pricing. And I always hope that eventually I will have a comfortable niche, but I'm not so sure anyone ever gets comfortable in this field.


My past understanding of this is that GSI will first give you advice on what's good for them. If they feel you have a good product then, as a rule, they will want an exclusive with you.

This has some merit for advertising purposes but it also effects your ability to sell to other stores. I tried it their way for some years and finally had to conclude that it was not in my best interest to tie my production to one company alone.

I would tell you other negatives with this but the bottom line; is it helping you with your output? I took note of my sales to them over the years and my guitars sold, on the average, every two weeks from actual landing in their stock.

My output was low and it insured that they bought everything that I made, with-in that period of time, but the downside was that it made other potential companies that wanted to buy my instruments, made at me for being tied into an exclusive.



gansz -> RE: luthier of the month (Jul. 14 2014 13:23:12)

Hey, Ethan--

I see you did your undergrad at Antioch. I live in Yellow Springs, a stone's throw from campus.

Your alma mater is back up and running, and just got their provisional accreditation!

Cheers,

David



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