How it all started
As a left-handed guitar player, Pete Turner was frustrated at the lack of choice available in acoustic guitars. So a few years ago he decided to make his own. Impressed, the partners at lefty shop Holiday Music each bought one, and enquiries started coming in from the local musicians' community on what else he had available.
Pete’s thoughts then turned to the resonator – why was it viewed as secondary to the acoustic guitar? Although spider and cone technology had moved on, no-one seemed to be addressing the quality issue of the body itself, or considering how attention to design could affect and improve the sound. After all, speaker manufacturers carefully design and match their speakers to the cabinet; they don’t spend time engineering the best cones to shove them in a tea-crate!
Pete examined the construction of the resonator with an engineer’s eye. In time he developed the Marrakech® - using his acoustic design as a platform, selecting woods for their tonal quality and even experimenting in manufacturing his own spiders. The result is a marriage of quality of materials with a redesigned internal structure to produce a truly new and original resonator.
Every hand made custom guitar is crafted of carefully selected woods – and each is solid wood, no veneers! Pete is constantly on the look out for unusual and beautiful sets – such as ancient bog oak - and ways to personalise the instrument, such as the amber inset to the Era acoustic.
Similarly, casting about unsuccessfully for a pickup to complement and enhance the Marrakech® sound, Pete designed and built his own, the perfect partner.
For the finishing touch, Andy Warnock, a talented luthier who is well known as ‘fretter and setter up' to the stars, sets up the guitar.
Our aim is to offer each customer a beautiful instrument that is as unique as the person that plays it.
Meet the family
Heidi
Heidi is retired after some 30 years at Royal Mail Headquarters, and is the chief administrator for the business. She enjoys music too, though - to her shame - can’t play the guitar. Heidi likes to relax reading in her Art Deco snug, loves social history and collecting original Art Deco furniture and objets d’art.
Chris
Chris contributes lots of moral support and encouragement from behind the scenes. He likes to express his creativity through cosplay and attending international conventions. All the while building his own desktop computer.
Helen
Helen is the Social Media Guru. She looks after the PTG socials and creates content for all our platforms. Another music lover in the family, with an eclectic taste in music and fashion.