FALL 2023



NEWSLETTER

Friends and supporters of Hill Guitar Company, we're delighted to bring you an official announcement for our new website. Now launched, we invite you to browse and hope you'll find the look and feel modernized and easy to navigate. Check out the showroom featuring Hill Guitar Models for sale and our News section where you'll find LIVE event announcements, press articles, and the Hill Guitar Co. blog by Master Luthier, Kenny Hill.

While finding time for composing original music and performing LIVE on guitar for select events, guitar making has not let up, and remains our primary focus. More innovative and inspired than ever, Kenny and his apprentice luthiers are hard at work at the homebase shop while production and shipments continue overseas of New World Guitars.

Forever striving to make the best classical guitar available in its time, Hill Guitars is proud to announce the 2023 Legacy Model guitar. The first Legacy design was made in 2019 and is described as the ideal guitar for players with everything you would want in an instrument. While rooted in classical guitar building tradition, more than 30 years of experimenting in guitar-making is reflected in a modern and progressive 21st century instrument designed to retain and enhance the classical guitar sound and feel.

Read on for the latest news from Hill Guitar Co., thank you for subscribing! Enjoy these highlights and a visit to our new and improved website. Wishing all of you a great start to Fall🍁

Hill Guitars Showroom

The Companion Model is a very fun recent project coming out of our workshop here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Companion is a small “parlor size” instrument made with no frills in an old school manner, that is all solid woods, fan braced 19th century Spanish style guitar (continue reading at our blog)...

Sheet Music Now Available at Productions D'Oz

Visit Productions D'Oz for the latest sheet music available for Kenny Hill original compositions. Selections include Songs from Home Suite, Water Music Suite, and Lost & Found Suite. Thanks to Eric Dessault for working with us to release these songbooks that are now, now shipping to Canada, Europe, & the US.

Artist Highlight

Watch Katalin Koltai perform Kenny Hill's original composition, Shanty, the second movement from Water Music Suite. Katalin created this film, recorded at the Nádor terem, Budapest. Enjoy Katalin's version of Shanty and other artists performing Kenny Hill originals on our YouTube Channel Playlist.

FROM THE WORKSHOP

Take a sneak peek at hand building a guitar neck. The master luthier is in his element and offers a rare glimpse at the precision & care required to make some of the best guitars in the world. Kenny Hill goes "with the grain" in this candid clip taken by apprentice guitar maker xxxxx in the Hill Guitar Co. Northern California workshop.

RECENT PERFORMANCE

Thanks to Anthony DeMers & Carmel Guitar Society for making a wonderful evening of music September 23rd at Pacific Grove Art Center possible. Kenny performs an original composition in this clip on his own Legacy Model Guitar. We were fortunate to have Isidoro Cosentino available for filming. If you're interested in hosting Kenny Hill LIVE in concert, we would love to hear from you.

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