Adrian J Lucas began building guitars in 1990, originally building classical guitars. He added steel string acoustics soon after. He has experimented with and refined various design ideas over the years and have arrived at some unique and successful models.

Instruments similar to what we know as the guitar have been popular for at least 5,000 years. The guitar appears to be derived from earlier instruments known in ancient central Asia (Middle East) as the cithara. Instruments very similar to the guitar appear in ancient carvings and statues recovered from the old Iranian Susa. The modern word, guitar, was adopted into English from Spanish guitarra, derived from earlier Greek word kithara. Prospective sources for various names of musical instruments that guitar could be derived from appear to be a combination of two Indo-European roots: guit-, similar to Sanskrit sangeet meaning "music", and -tar a widely attested root meaning "chord" or "string".

Why is Jean Larrivee doing pushups on a big log in the forests of British Columbia? Keeping fit to build guitars?

It's just another day for Jean Sr - out walking the log booms in the forests of British Columbia looking for perfect Sitka Spruce logs which will produce the Larrivee tone years to come. Jean is the only major builder in the world to be this involved with selection of wood. The log in the above picture will provide soundboards for over 2000 guitars! 

The music of TERRY ALLAN HALL has been described as a "tasty concoction of Good-time Folk-Rock and Country Gold, seasoned with a smidgeon of Jazz, a pinch each of Tin Pan Alley and Texas, and a healthy dollop of 'Down Home Blues', masterly served up through his expressive voice and confident command of the 6 and 12-string guitar, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, dobro and dulcimer".