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wonderfully innovative yet vintage aware guitar guy...major loss
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Sorry to hear it. He built a wonderful company that (I think) sets the standard for both quality and integrity.
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Just like the great players, too many master luthiers left us too soon.
Very sad. Rest peacefully Mr. Collings. I hope your family and loved ones have the strength handle this great loss.
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at least bill c made it past 59..the john D and jimmy D age of passing..
how weird was that??
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He was a very funny guy, a real prankster. The Hofner booth was next to the Collings booth at NAMM for a few years. Many shenanigans and much laughter ensued, and I feel privileged to have spent some time with him. And he built a company with some very talented people, who make great guitars.
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An incredible luthier. His name will live on though his work. I never met him but as Hammertone described him, he must have been a happy guy to hang around with. RIP
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frisell on collings..good stuff
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Originally Posted by
Longways to Go
what a great legacy. RIP
Yup ..
sorry to hear this ... 69 seems younger every day ... perhaps I really should retire at 56
He will be missed
Maybe I won't sell that CL Deluxe after all .... a very nice LP style solid body ...
mine actually comes darn close to sounding like a very nice archtop
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I didn't know Mr. Collings but I know of his work having seen many examples over the years. Almost everyone I know who owns a Collings absolutely loves their instrument. The tone, the feel, the build are greater than the sum of the parts. I thoroughly enjoy watching his YouTube videos and listening to his philosophy of luthiership. He stepped it up a notch. Rest enough Mr. Collings -- you've done your share.
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Nice Guitars Mr. Collings, RIP.
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Blessings and peace to the Collings family...Bill made a difference! It always hurts to lose folks so close to us all in "instrumental" ways. His legacy will live for a long time. Peace brother.
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So sad and quite shocking. I've never met Bill but I played many of his guitars at Mandolin Brothers and always held them in the highest regard - right up there with the best . The loss of great people who really made a difference in the building of fine musical instruments is becoming too sad to absorb.
As many of us enter that realm of decline we must remind ourselves that life is precious - and make every day count.
RIP Bill - you will be dearly missed.
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Whenever I would go into a high end boutique I would always gravitate to Collings guitars. I think if I had been a rich man I would have a dozen Collings hanging on my wall and I would never have bothered to learn to build.
RIP.
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Sad to hear. There is no such thing as a solo artist, every solo concert is at least a duet with player and luthier. So, good players require good luthiers, and vice versa. The loss of either one is to be equally lamented.
I played a couple of Collings' guitars in a guitar shop here, and was hugely impressed. When my wife asked me how I felt, I remarked that "It felt like coming home." Sadly we couldn't afford either one of them. If my government hadn't seen fit to add twenty per cent tax to the total, then they might have been reachable. But they left a good memory of what a quality guitar should be, in that respect they were an education.
Will the company keep going?
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I have never owned a Collings, but like several have said in this thread, I've played quite a few. I never played one that I didn't like.
It's hard to imagine that the company won't continue, but I suppose one never knows.
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Oh no...
I'm still impressed by the Eastside I once played in a store. One of the best archtop models out there.
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Gryphon is a Colling's dealer so I have had every model in my hands. Though his guitars are not bling focused, the fit and finish is absolutely impeccable. The QC is some of the best I have ever seen. He obviously took great pride in his work and providing his customers with very high quality instruments
God bless you Bill for your blessings to string players.
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Shame.
Back in 2001 when my pal master luthier John Zeidler contracted a rare form of leukemia he was sent to MD Anderson cancer center in Houston.
Bill and some of his staff were kind enough to provide platelets and support for John.
Sadly John didn't see his 45th birthday.
The guitar building community is a pretty tight one and a guitar was built to raise money for John's family w/many top luthiers contributing a little work on it.
rip Bill and John...
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When John was sick he asked me to go to his shop and pick out a billet of spruce and maple for the guitar.
I sent them to John Monteleone and the process began.
Bill made the pickguard...
2005 ZEIDLER Zeidler Project Guitar Natural > Guitars Archtop Electric & Acoustic | Rudys Music
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nice story wm!! great that it ended up at rudys!!! icing!
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yeah neatomic, it was originally @ Mandolin Brothers w/a price tag of 100K and was there for years.
I guess Rudy got it sold somehow.
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well...mandolin brothers was on remote outpost of staten island..the average nyc'er has never even set foot on staten island!!!
rudy was on 48th st mid town manhattan guitar row for years..then when the action moved downtown, he's set up showcase store in soho
he's "hollywood" compared to what mandolin bros was..
tho, props to them both!
i love rudy p...
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The only Collings I've ever played was a Martin-style dreadnought. It was without a doubt the finest acoustic guitar I've ever played.
Condolences to his family and friends -- but I hope they can take heart in knowing that his creativity and craft will resound down the years in the hands of players ... which was no doubt one of his wishes.
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