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Bedell Guitars
Source evidence: NAMM 2020 Exhibitor List booth(s) 2503
Bedell Guitars news timeline
28 published MMR stories reference this company or its work.
Bedell Guitars Holds the World’s Largest Brazilian Rosewood Library
Along with key Co-Hippies, he established the Tonewood Certification Project, which promises no clear-cut woods will be used in Bedell instruments and that any living trees will be…
The Bedell Brazilian Collection
Bedell Guitars will share its Bedell Brazilian Collection in 2019, featuring four unique purpose built limited editions of eight each, individually released each quarter throughout 2019.
Bedell Guitars' Paleo Guitar
The new Paleo guitar from Bedell offers a Sitka spruce guitar top, which is perhaps the youngest tonewood of the guitar body, cut from a spruce log which…
Guitars Going Green
The imperative to go green has increased steadily among musical instrument manufacturers over the years, and one area in which this the impact is certainly being felt is…
Advancing the Traditional: Weber Mandolins
In 2018, many musicians and retailers have complex feelings about guitar sales and their relevance in today’s market, while ukuleles continue to have an epic moment and are…
Sustainability Getting the Green Light
In mid-March, NPR reported that the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has stricken “climate change” and related terminology from its strategic plan – this after one of…
The Bedell Rio Guitar from Bedell Guitars
The Bedell Rio Guitar features Bearclaw Spruce and Brazilian Rosewood from the Esperanza Tree, as well as brass inlays, and prewar-style compound tapered dovetail neck joints.
Musicians for Forests: How the Music Industry can help the Tongass National Forest
Musicians for Forests holds the vision of pulling together acoustic guitar manufacturers, musicians, soundboard suppliers, retailers, NGOs, and outdoor manufacturers to end the clearcutting of old-growth Sitka spruce in…
Bedell Guitars and Stand For Trees Team Up to Protect Threatened Brazilian Rosewood Forest
Bedell Guitars is committed to hand crafting guitars with sustainably harvested woods.
Breedlove and Bedell Give Guitars Away to Dealers
NAMM 2016 took place in Anaheim, CA, January 21 – 24. Dealers, artists, consumers, and distributors flood the convention center for four days to check out all that…
Bedell Bahia Series
Bedell Guitars is proud to announce the new Bahia series of acoustic guitars.
Tom Bedell Speaks Out About Conservation and Forestry Issues
In September, Tom Bedell participated in the World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa.
Tom Bedell Presents at World Forestry Congress
Tom Bedell is currently in Durban, South Africa participating in the World Forestry Congress.
FORUM: Acoustic guitars
While fans and retailers of electric guitar impatiently await the next “guitar hero” to revitalise that segment of the market, acoustic guitar sales continue to climb. MMR spoke…
The Circle Game – Acoustic Guitar Suppliers Discuss the Market
While fans and retailers of electric guitar impatiently await the next “guitar hero” to revitalize that segment of the market, acoustic guitar sales continue to climb (see our…
Acoustic Guitar Spread
AccessoriesGrover Ultra CapoAdding to the company’s line of quality guitar accessories Grover Musical Products has introduced the Ultra Capo™ - the “World’s first” offset capo.
KMC Appoints New Regional Sales Managers
KMC Music (www.kmcmusic.com) has announced the appointment of three new regional sales managers for the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and West/Northwest sales territories.
Bedell Wildfire Series Acoustic Guitars
Bedell Guitars introduced the Bedell Wildfire Series of acoustic guitars—part of the Bedell Homegrown Collection—built with all American-grown tonewoods with handcrafted detail and sound.
Breedlove celebrates 25 years
If you were to ask Kim Breedlove about his greatest accomplishment at Breedlove, he wouldn’t be able to name just one.
Breedlove’s Silver Jubilee – 25 Years of Acoustics
If you were to ask Kim Breedlove about his greatest accomplishment at Breedlove, he wouldn’t be able to name just one. “To have preserved, taught and passed on…
Bedell Guitars, Guster, and REVERB Bring Awareness to the Lacey Act
As part of REVERB’s ongoing environmental efforts in partnership with the band, Guster, each tour stop will have a fan engagement Eco Village. Bedell Guitars is proud to…
Is Protecting the World’s Hardwood and Rain Forests Our Responsibility?
Ever since the 2008 refinement of the Lacey Act and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department’s 2009 raid on Gibson, our guitar industry has debated the fairness of…
Bedell ‘Summer of Love’ Dreadnaught
Few figures in the guitar industry have been as involved in exploring issues of sustainability and the legality of existing rare tonewoods as Tom Bedell. His Bedell Guitars…
Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound 2014
With over 110,000 visitors and 2,242 exhibiting companies from 57 nations, it’s unquestionable that the annual Musikmesse gathering in Frankfurt – held this year from March 12-15 –…
Morris Joins the Breedlove and Bedell Guitar Teams
Justin Morris has joined the Two Old Hippies team to lead revolutionize the way Breedlove and Bedell Guitars deliver specific tonal properties in their instruments, as well as…
Breelove/Bedell Welcomes Engineer Justin Morris
As Breedlove and Bedell look to the future, both companies aim to compliment the artistic process of handcrafting instruments with scientific information about the use of woods and…
Bedell Guitars - 'We Can All Win Together'
[caption id="attachment_48416" align="alignleft" width="800"]Tom Bedell on a trip to Alaska earlier this year to check on the harvesting of Sitka spruce for 2013 instruments.[/caption]In 2009, MMR profiled the…