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Payments under such agreements, however, are not protected or otherwise guaranteed by any government agency or the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association. California residents: Annuities are subject to regulation by the State of California. State law may further impact your individual results. References to tax rates include federal taxes only and are subject to change. Figures cited in any examples are for illustrative purposes only. For such advice, please consult an attorney or tax advisor. The information on this website is not intended as legal or tax advice. PS: Carmine Street Guitars was a GVSHP Village Award winner and is located in the South Village extension of the Greenwich Village Historic District which was designated in 2010 due to the efforts of GVSHP.Information contained herein was accurate at the time of posting. Nowhere but New York, folks! GVSHP’s Village Awards Ceremony Rick Kelly – Luthier who works to preserve history – one guitar at a time. This framing wood was used in most of the New York City buildings constructed in the 1800’s. Much of the wood that Kelly harvests is called the “King’s Wood” – white pine timber that was barged down the Hudson River 200 years ago from the forests of the Adirondacks. “The resin in the wood crystalizes and opens up the pores for vibration, creating resonance,” Kelly said. Reclaimed wood makes superior guitars because it’s already cured and seasoned. “After I made that first one that was so amazing, I thought, ‘I’ve got to keep doing this,'” Kelly said. He turned the wood into two guitars for Jarmusch. Kelly made his first guitar with wood from a New York building three years ago, after director Jim Jarmusch renovated his loft on the Bowery and gave the wood to Kelly. He started making Appalachian dulcimers, stringed instruments sometimes used in folk music, from reclaimed wood and sold them at craft fairs to help pay his way through art school. “I started collecting old wood in college because it was free,” he recalls. Bob DylanĪs with most things that are amazing, necessity was the mother of invention. Smith also have owned and played guitars made from New York buildings, according to Kelly. Patti Smith, Lou Reed and former Hall & Oates guitarist G.E. He recently crafted a guitar for Bob Dylan whose body was made from the wood recycled from Chumley’s and the neck was made from the wood of the Chelsea Hotel. He has scored materials from numerous famous sites including the former Bedford Street speakeasy Chumley’s, which was once a hangout of, among many others, Dylan Thomas, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner and Edna St.

Kelly scours for wood that has been removed from historic New York buildings and creates the guitars in his shop.

Rick’s guitars are like having history in your arms.Ĭarmine Street Guitars at 42 Carmine Street is the place where the magic happens. Rick Kelly is a luthier who crafts bespoke guitars from the reclaimed wood that once belonged to buildings around the city. If only these old bones could talk! Well, in the case of Rick Kelly and his amazing craft, the old bones can indeed talk, or sing, if you will.

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