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 Two of our staff, Eric M., sales and Anne T., marketing, went to Austin, Texas in February to visit Collings Guitars. Though Mass Street Music has been a Collings dealer for acoustic guitars,electric guitars, mandolins and ukes for many years (in fact we were the third dealer ever), this was Eric and Anne's first jaunt to the Collings 'factory'. We say it with quotation marks because really, every instrument Collings builds is custom. Though you'll find CNC (computer numerical control) machines and modern technology, it's truly a workshop with hand crafted work happening around every corner and each guitar, mando and uke is built to be the very best it can be (which always turns out to be phenomenal). "I was entranced by the CNC machines," Eric said, "but the real revelation for me was how the people who do the hand work in the shop transform these very precise, computer-aided objects into instruments with soul." READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
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