Riversong Guitars

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Riversong Guitars
legal form
founding 2011
Seat Kamloops , British Columbia , Canada
management Mike Miltimore
Branch Musical instruments
Website www.riversongguitars.com

Mike Miltimore, founder and owner of Riversong Guitars, at a product presentation
Don Alder with a Riversong Tradition 2

Riversong Guitars is a Canadian manufacturer of acoustic guitars . The company was founded in 2011 by Mike Miltimore and is based in Kamloops , British Columbia . Riversong Guitars is one of the guitar manufacturers in the premium segment.

Company history

In 1974 Lee Miltimore opened the guitar business Lee's Music in Kamloops ( British Columbia ) , in 1986 his son Mike joined the business. In the 1990s they started making custom guitars , that is, custom-made guitars. In 2006 the guitar maker Mike Trelenberg joined the company. In the following years, Mike Miltimore developed guitars with two innovations: in order to keep the tensile forces out of the construction of the body, the construction with a continuous neck, which is unusual for acoustic guitars, was chosen. This is to reduce the ceiling beaming, which means that the body can vibrate better, according to Miltimore. In addition, with Riversong guitars, the angle of the neck to the body and thus the string position above the neck can be varied without great effort, so that it can be adapted to the respective playing style. The woods for the guitars come exclusively from Canadian stocks. The guitars usually have an additional sound hole in the frame facing the player. Riversong Guitars has received numerous awards for its new developments since 2014.

Models

  • Traditional Series: 6-string and 12-string guitars as well as a ukulele model with different wood combinations, apart from the features described above in traditional design.
  • Soulstice Series: Walnut neck and black finish are special features of this type.
  • Graduated Scale Series: The guitars and a bass guitar are built so that the bass strings are longer than the higher-pitched strings.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Riversong Guitars: Company History . Accessed: November 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Michael Behm: Riversong Tradition CDN SE Test . On: bonedo.de, March 2016. Accessed: November 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ Jens Hausmann: Riversong . In: Acoustic Guitar No. 2/2016. Accessed: November 19, 2016.
  4. ^ Riversong Guitars: Awards . Accessed: November 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Riversong Guitars: Traditional Guitars . Accessed: November 19, 2016.
  6. ^ Riversong Guitars: Soulstice Series . Accessed: November 19, 2016.
  7. ↑ Riversong Guitars: Graduated Scale Series . Accessed: November 19, 2016.