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John Morrison: Excellent guitarist, singer/songwriter and great friend.  

Strung Out Guitars: Independent  guitar shop in Glasgow run by Louise and Paula.. A1 repairers!

The Whistlefield Inn: Home of the monthly Open Folk Nights on shores of Loch Eck.

Tony Collins: Singer/songwriter and all-round entertainer

The Gathering:  Nigel Gatherer’s traditional music site and forum.

BB Woodturnings: Excellent Dunoon-based woodturner .  Really worth a look.

The links below are all to people whose work, products or businesses I personally know and recommend.  For further details, or if you would like to have an entry on this page, contact: info@luthierjohn.co.uk. Click on the name to access the site.

Clair Tierney:

Rising young Scottish singer/songwriter with a growing fanbase.

AdLib Music: Greenock’s own music shop.  Excellent,  friendly service.

Paul Hyland:

Glasgow-based violin maker.  

David Angus:

Hand-made fifes and flutes made in County Down, NI.

Mandolin.org.uk:

Superb site for all things to do with the mandolin, its building and playing.

Mandolincafe.com:

Excellent site with all sorts of things mandolin-related.

Michael Ritchie:

Specialist builder of superb classical guitars.  Based in Fintry, Scotland.

Machrihanish Birds:

Machrihanish (Kintyre) Seabird and wildlife observatory.

Super site!

Dick Glasgow:

Fine player of mandolin and tenor banjo with excellent website for tenor banjo.

Number 11 Academy Street.

Super and very cosy and reasonable 4* B and B in Brora in Sutherland.